Clark Center Forum

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The Forum for the Kent A. Clark Center for Global Markets is home to the European, Finance, and US Economic Experts Panels as well as a repository of thoughtful, current, and reliable information regarding topics of the day.
US

Sanctions

Question A:

The experience of the past 10 years suggests that Western-led economic sanctions do not substantially deter the target countries from their course of action.

Responses

Source: Clark Center Economic Experts Panel
Methodology
Question B:

Had the G7 instituted a complete energy embargo in 2022, Russia's current military and economic position would be substantially worse.

Responses

Source: Clark Center Economic Experts Panel
Methodology
Question C:

Had the G7 instituted a complete energy embargo in 2022, the world economy would have faced substantially higher oil prices.

Responses

Source: Clark Center Economic Experts Panel
Methodology
 
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Democracy, Government, & Public Policy
Europe

Sanctions

Question A:

The experience of the past 10 years suggests that Western-led economic sanctions do not substantially deter the target countries from their course of action.

Responses

Source: European Clark Center Economic Experts Panel
Methodology
Question B:

Had the G7 instituted a complete energy embargo in 2022, Russia's current military and economic position would be substantially worse.

Responses

Source: European Clark Center Economic Experts Panel
Methodology
Question C:

Had the G7 instituted a complete energy embargo in 2022, the world economy would have faced substantially higher oil prices.

Responses

Source: European Clark Center Economic Experts Panel
Methodology
 
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Democracy, Government, & Public Policy
US

Digital Privacy and Digital Harm

This US survey examines (a) The potential for consumers to be harmed by digital platforms’ use of their personal data is sufficient that they would benefit from laws assigning them some kind of default control rights over their data; (b) The risks of harm from use of social media services - such as harm to mental health, exploitation of children, and more - are now high enough that society would benefit from federal regulations setting safety standards and creating a process of compensation for harm by digital platforms 
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Democracy, Government, & Public Policy
On Global Markets

A 28th Regime?

For more than a decade, the European Union’s policymakers have been aiming to create a deeper pan-European capital market. In recent years, those efforts have acquired more urgency. As the think tank Bruegel recently set out: Initially, the focus was on integrating and developing national capital markets to complement bank lending and enhance risk diversification, […] 
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Articles
Europe

European Capital Markets

This European survey examines (a) Creating a ‘28th regime’ - an optional, EU-wide code of corporate, securities and insolvency law that firms could adopt and which would pre-empt the application of any of the 27 national rulebooks - would be substantially more effective in building a European capital market than continuing efforts to achieve harmonisation of the national rulebooks; (b) Creating the 28th regime would substantially increase the supply of capital to new ventures and growing businesses; (c) A well-functioning and efficient single EU capital market requires a strengthened European Securities and Markets Authority, comparable to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, to operate as a single market regulator 
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Business, Management, & Corporate Performance
US

Fiscal Sustainability

This US survey examines (a) Long-run US fiscal sustainability will require some combination of slowing the growth of spending on Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security benefits and/or tax increases, including higher taxes on households with incomes below $400,000; (b) Issuing an additional $2.3 trillion of debt over the next 10 years, as is projected by the Congressional Budget Office if the House Reconciliation Bill is enacted, will substantially raise interest rates on government debt over that period 
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Public Debt & Deficits
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