Filtered by: Economic Policy
Mary Daly’s Crooked Path
See related: Economic Policy, Gender and Sex, Income, Race & Ethnicity, U.S. Education, United States
Mitra discusses challenges facing India's prime minister in NY Times
The "Modi government should get a lot of credit for its Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code as well as the cleansing of the banking system, an important component being getting rid of non-performing assets," says Devashish Mitra, professor of economics and Gerald B. and Daphna Cramer Professor of Global Affairs.
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Lovely explains how the trade war hurts Americans in CNN article
See related: China, Economic Policy, Trade, United States
Lovely speaks with Associated Press, NPR, NY Times about the US-China trade war
"It looks like there was a level of specificity that China wasn’t willing to accept and a level of ambiguity that the Trump administration wasn’t willing to accept," Mary Lovely, professor emerita of economics, told the New York Times.
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Lovely discusses US-China trade war with ABC News, Marketplace, Wall Street Journal
"I think that if President Trump goes through and raises these tariffs and then China retaliates, there will be a lot more pain and no gain," says Professor of Economics Mary Lovely.
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Lovely discusses US-China trade, tariffs on Bloomberg, CGTN
"It’ll hit the pocketbooks of the working class hard," Professor Mary Lovely said about Trump's recent trade-war threat to increase tariffs.
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Dutkowsky discusses latest jobs report on TD Ameritrade Network
"It's just about all good," says Donald Dutkowsky, professor of economics, about the recently released jobs report.
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US and China resume trade talks, Lovely comments in Associated Press
"The two bullies in the room are basically running the show. The rest of the world is going to have to deal with the aftermath," says Mary Lovely, professor of economics.
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Mitra discusses Indian redistributive programs in Economic Times
"No economist providing policy prescriptions can ignore the political constraint of the inevitability of redistribution to the bottom 20-30 percent," writes Devashish Mitra, Gerald B. and Daphna Cramer Professor of Global Affairs. "Therefore, an important task before any policy economist is to suggest the most efficient form of this redistribution—one that hurts the rest of the society the least. Of course, it also has to be fiscally viable and responsible."
See related: Economic Policy, India
Lovely weighs in on discrimination in the field of economics in Business Insider
"Many men believe they themselves are not part of the problem, yet they continue to organize sessions without any women authors or discussants," says Mary Lovely, professor of economics. "And I still am present at meetings where women's views are heard and then trivialized."
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Christopher Faricy and coauthors examine how delivery methods affect attitudes on social spending
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Lovely speaks with Associated Press, Washington Post about Trump's tariffs
According to Professor of Economics Mary Lovely, "this is not a negotiating tactic. Trump is a true believer...He wrongly believes tariffs will help the U.S. auto industry."
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Lovely provides an economic history of tariffs on Marketplace
"The economy has changed a lot since 1888 and in particular, when we think about who bears the burden of tariffs, we have to recognize the development of very complex supply chains for American companies," says Professor of Economics Mary Lovely.
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Lovely quoted in Business Insider article on US tariff revenue
"The president looks at this [foreign tariffs] and says it's coming from foreigners," says Mary Lovely, professor of economics. "That's not technically correct. I mean, I go to Macy's and pay a sales tax. Macy's is the one that sends the check to the government, but that doesn't mean they're the ones that pay the tax. I am."
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Lovely quoted in Bloomberg article on China, Trump's tariffs
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Lovely discusses impact of tariffs on Chinese supply chains in Xinhua
"So there's a great deal of uncertainty and firms are really in doubt as to what they should do because moving the supply chain is costly. Before you want to do that, you want to make sure that it's something that you really need to do," says Mary Lovely. professor of economics.
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Mitra discusses tariff retaliation by India in Livemint article
Devashish Mitra, professor of economics and Gerald B. and Daphna Cramer Professor of Global Affairs, says, "any tariff increase will come at a huge cost to India’s consumers as well as producers who use imported inputs."
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Lovely discusses tariffs with the Economist, Wall Street Journal
"The first few rounds of tariffs hit supply chains really hard," says Mary Lovely, professor of economics. Now, the Trump administration "has begun to hit things clearly not processed in the U.S.—consumer goods—and this is going to get people’s attention."
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Lovely discusses winners and losers of steel tariffs on NPR
"The companies that use steel, like aluminum can manufacturers, or companies that make steel vats for pharmaceuticals or the dairy industry, they're going to be hurt by this," says Mary Lovely, professor of economics.
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