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Understanding the causes and likely outcomes of the South Korean political crisis
Harvard Kennedy School’s adjunct lecturer in public policy and East Asia political expert, Jeeyang Rhee Baum, examines South ...
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Martial Law in South Korea: What Happened and What’s Next?
When presented with a clear threat to democratic norms and institutions by the President’s declaration of martial law, many ...
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Unemployment insurance benefits buffered workers from negative effects of joblessness during COVID-19
When service sector employment fell by 15% during the early days of the pandemic, many hourly service workers faced increasing economic precarity and negative consequences for their health and ...
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The COVID-19 Pandemic and the $16 Trillion Virus - David Cutler and Lawrence Summers
October 12, 2020, Paper; "The SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) pandemic is the greatest threat to prosperity and well-being the US has encountered since the Great ...
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Economic Inequality Shapes Judgments of Consumption - Michael Norton
October 12, 2021, Paper: "Economic inequality affects not only how individuals judge and behave in their own lives, but also how those individuals’ judge and behave toward others – both people and ...
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Peak China Housing - Kenneth Rogoff
August 2020, Paper: "China’s real estate has been a key engine of its sustained economic expansion. This paper argues, however, that even before the Covid-19 shock, a decades-long housing boom had ...
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A Brief History of Default - Edwin Truman
Noevember 2021, Opinion: "Barry Eichengreen, Asmaa El-Ganainy, Rui Esteves, and Kris James Mitchener present a valuable, detailed account of the evolution of public debt instruments and institutions ...
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Why time poverty matters for individuals, organisations and nations - Ashley Whillans
2020, Paper, "Over the last two decades, global wealth has risen. Yet material affluence has not translated into time affluence. Most people report feeling persistently ‘time poor’—like they have too ...
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Income Volatility Increases Financial Impatience - Ashley Whillans
2020, Paper: "Using a multi-method approach, we investigate whether income volatility is associated with financial impatience—the preference to receive a small sum of money immediately over a larger ...
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Debates in Macroeconomics from the Great Depression to the Long Recession Cycles, Crises and Policy Responses - Arie Arnon
2022, Book: "This book assesses major schools of thought in macroeconomic theory between the Great Depression and the Long Recession, focusing on their analysis of cycles, crises and macro-policy. It ...
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Structure, Interdependence, and Evolution of Globalization in Global Value Chains
September 6, 2020, Paper: "Global value chains (GVCs) are the practical expressions and principal engines of today’s globalization. There is a burgeoning body of literature that takes a GVC ...
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Lecture: The Future of Globalization - Dani Rodrik
September 1, 2020, Video: "In this lecture Dani Rodrik argues that the model of hyperglobalization we have been pursuing is unsustainable and that we have an opportunity to embark on a sounder, ...