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| Jason Furman
November 19, 2020, Video: "Introductory remarks by Princeton University's Markus Brunnermeier. Jason Furman is a Professor of Economics at Harvard Kennedy School, Senior Fellow at PIIE and Former Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors." Watch Via Princeton Bendheim Center for Finance
September 3, 2020, Paper: "In the past decade, foreign participation in local-currency bond markets in emerging countries increased dramatically. Additionally, emerging countries are increasingly deviating from inflation targeting regimes, managing their exchange rate and engaging in exchange-rate accumulation. In light of these trends, we revisit sovereign debt sustainability, and the choice of the optimal exchange-rate regime, under the…
| Dante Roscini
August 2020. GrowthPolicy’s Devjani Roy interviewed Dante Roscini, Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School, on the economic fallout of COVID-19, sovereign debt crises, and the current investing environment in Europe. |…
| Kenneth Rogoff
July 2020, Paper, "We've had 2 days of discussions, papers, comments on the topic of debt–public sector debt, household debt, corporate sector debt. Now, with our last panel, we will zero in on public sector debt, and that's going to be where we spend …"
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| Victoria Ivashina
2020, Paper, "In emerging markets, a significant share of corporate loans are denominated in dollars. Using novel data that enables us to see currency and the cost of credit, in addition to several other transaction-level characteristics, we re-examine the reasons behind dollar credit popularity. We find that a dollar-denominated loan has an interest rate that is 2% lower per year than a loan in Peruvian Soles. Expectations of exchange rate…
| Lawrence H. Summers
June 22, 2020, Opinion, "Every year the Internal Revenue Service leaves billions of dollars in tax revenue on the table by failing to pursue high-income individuals who don’t bother to file tax returns. A report released last month by the Treasury Department’s inspector general estimated that the amount of lost revenue was nearly $50 billion between 2014 and…
| Jason Furman
May 15, 2020, Video, "Speakers discuss the U.S. national debt and potential for an impending debt crisis, particularly given recent multi-trillion dollar COVID-19 stimulus packages, as well as the financial health of state and local entities across the country." Watch on Youtube
| Christopher Avery
April 2020, Paper. "This paper provides a critical review of models of the spread of the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic that have been influential in recent policy decisions. There is tremendous opportunity for social scientists to advance the relevant literature as new and better data becomes available to bolster economic outcomes and save lives."
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| Lawrence H. Summers
April 27, 2020, Video. "This is Policy Views' fourth interview with former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and Jake Schneider. This video was recorded with permission from the Harvard Kennedy School on April 27, 2020."
April 25, 2020, Video. "In this segment of WION's Straight Talk, WION had an exclusive conversation with Gita Gopinath, Chief Economist of International Monetary Fund (IMF), over Coronavirus crisis hitting the developed and emerging economies. Know, how the world economies are dealing with the Coronavirus crisis?"
Harvard interviewee: Gita Gopinath