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The International Economics Program
The International Economics program aims to explain developments in the international economy, and influence policy. It does so by undertaking independent analytical research.
The International Economics program contributes to the Lowy Institute’s core publications: policy briefs and policy analyses. For example, the program contributed the Lowy Institute Paper, John Edwards’ Beyond the Boom, which argued that Australia’s transition away from the commodities boom will be quite smooth.
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G20 Studies Centre workshop 25 June 2013: Trade and the G20
G20 Studies Centre workshop 25 June 2013: Trade and the G20Hugh Jorgensen
Financial reform: A job half-done
Nearly five years after the onset of the financial crisis, we might expect widespread agreement on what went wrong and how to fix it. But there is still a lot to be done, with…
Monetary policy: BIS sounds the alarm
Mike Callaghan is Director of the Lowy Institute's G20 Studies Centre.
The Bank of International Settlements (BIS) sounds like a dull place. It is the central banks' central bank…
G8 Summit: Lessons for the G20
Mike Callaghan is Director of the Lowy Institute's G20 Studies Centre.
Lough Erne, Northern Ireland, the site of the recent G8 summit, was chosen to inspire leaders, with…
Reader riposte: Costs of EU-US free trade deal
Reader Peter Frank recommends this Spiegel analysis of the proposed US-EU free trade agreement, which contains estimates that such a deal would cost Australia 52,000 jobs and…
Can G20 leaders save the multilateral trading system? Will they bother?
This week saw the US and EU agree to launch talks on what has been described as potentially the 'biggest bilateral trade deal in history.'
The proposed Transatlantic Trade and…
Commentary
G20 needs to pay attention to WTO
In an opinion piece in The Australian Financial Review, Mark Thirlwell writes that the WTO needs to be prepared for the ways in which looming mega-regional deals will change the…
US-Europe FTA + TPP = Super FTA?
Geoff Miller is a former Director-General of the Office of National Assessments.
Reading this morning's news from the G8 Summit and thinking back to recent discussions of the…
Do financial markets understand QE?
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke sent a shiver through financial markets worldwide late last month when he said that if the Fed saw 'real and sustainable improvement in the labour market…
Analyses
Saving multilateralism: the G20, the WTO, and world trade
The multilateral trading system, an important contributor to global peace and prosperity, is in trouble. In a new Lowy Institute Analysis for the G20 Studies Centre, Mark…