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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.
Europe

AI and the Labor Market

Question A:

Use of artificial intelligence over the next ten years will have a negative impact on the earnings potential of substantial numbers of high-skilled workers in advanced countries.

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Source: European Clark Center Economic Experts Panel
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Question B:

Use of artificial intelligence over the next ten years will lead to substantially greater uncertainty about the likely returns to investment in education.

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Source: European Clark Center Economic Experts Panel
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Question C:

Use of artificial intelligence over the next ten years is likely to have a measurable impact in increasing income inequality.

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Source: European Clark Center Economic Experts Panel
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Jobs, Pay, & Unemployment
US

AI and the Labor Market

Question A:

Use of artificial intelligence over the next ten years will have a negative impact on the earnings potential of substantial numbers of high-skilled workers in advanced countries.

Responses

Source: Clark Center Economic Experts Panel
Methodology
Question B:

Use of artificial intelligence over the next ten years will lead to substantially greater uncertainty about the likely returns to investment in education.

Responses

Source: Clark Center Economic Experts Panel
Methodology
Question C:

Use of artificial intelligence over the next ten years is likely to have a measurable impact in increasing income inequality.

Responses

Source: Clark Center Economic Experts Panel
Methodology
 
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Jobs, Pay, & Unemployment
Europe

AI and Market Power

This European survey examines (a) Use of artificial intelligence is likely to lead to a substantial increase in problems associated with market power in digital markets; (b) Artificial intelligence offers substantial opportunities for new entrants into digital markets that have previously been concentrated; (c) Artificial intelligence is likely to be a highly concentrated industry, dominated by a handful of players 
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Regulation, Competition, & Market Power
US

AI and Market Power

This US survey examines (a) Use of artificial intelligence is likely to lead to a substantial increase in problems associated with market power in digital markets; (b) Artificial intelligence offers substantial opportunities for new entrants into digital markets that have previously been concentrated; (c) Artificial intelligence is likely to be a highly concentrated industry, dominated by a handful of players 
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Regulation, Competition, & Market Power
FT-Booth US Macroeconomists Survey

FTxBooth: Rate increases to continue?

This installment of the FTxBooth US Macroeconomists Survey discusses the likelihood that the Fed will continue to raise rates and views oil supply as a top inflation risk The summary results are below and you can read the Financial Times article here, subscription required. View the results of this survey >> For social media: Please […] 
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FT-Booth US Macroeconomists Survey
Europe

Policy Responses to Recent Bank Failures

This European survey examines (a) The response to recent bank failures should be to: Expand central banks’ lender of last resort facilities for banks; (b) The response to recent bank failures should be to: Substantially increase the limit on bank deposit insurance; (c) The response to recent bank failures should be to: Substantially increase bank capital requirements; (d) The response to recent bank failures should be to: Use market values of all traded assets to compute banks’ regulatory capital 
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Business Cycles, Recessions, & Crises
US

Policy Responses to Recent Bank Failures

This US survey examines (a) The response to recent bank failures should be to: Expand central banks’ lender of last resort facilities for banks; (b) The response to recent bank failures should be to: Substantially increase the limit on bank deposit insurance; (c) The response to recent bank failures should be to: Substantially increase bank capital requirements; (d) The response to recent bank failures should be to: Use market values of all traded assets to compute banks’ regulatory capital 
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Business Cycles, Recessions, & Crises
Europe

Debt Sustainability

This European survey examines (a) Debt sustainability analysis – for example, as practiced currently by the International Monetary Fund – substantially improves the ability to predict future sovereign debt crises; (b) The European Commission’s proposed move from the existing EU fiscal rules to ones based on debt sustainability analysis would be a measurable improvement; (c) A move from the existing fiscal rules to independent fiscal councils would be more effective than a move to rules based on debt sustainability. 
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Public Debt & Deficits
US

Debt Sustainability

This US survey examines (a) Debt sustainability analysis – for example, as practiced currently by the International Monetary Fund – substantially improves the ability to predict future sovereign debt crises; (b) The European Commission’s proposed move from the existing EU fiscal rules to ones based on debt sustainability analysis would be a measurable improvement; (c) A move from the existing fiscal rules to independent fiscal councils would be more effective than a move to rules based on debt sustainability. 
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Public Debt & Deficits
Finance

Enhanced Regulation of Private Fund Advisers

This Finance survey examines (a) The benefits of the new SEC rules on private funds - which require private funds to provide transparency to their investors regarding the fees and expenses and other terms of their relationship with private fund advisers and the performance of such private funds - substantially exceed their costs; (b) The new SEC rules will have a substantially negative impact on the industry by stifling capital formation and reducing competition; (c) It is appropriate policy for the SEC to impose such rules on private funds even though the investors (limited partners) are sophisticated entities 
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Financial Regulation
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