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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

Experimental Research, Development Economics and Poverty Reduction

Question A:

Randomized control trials are a valuable tool for answering some long unsettled questions in development economics research.

Responses

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27%
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2%
6%
35%
29%
Question B:

Randomized control trials are a valuable tool for making significant progress in poverty reduction.

Responses

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27%
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2%
13%
33%
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Europe

Stakeholder Capitalism

Question A:

Having companies run to maximize shareholder value creates significant negative externalities for workers and communities.

Responses

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6%
6%
33%
21%
13%
Question B:

Appropriately managed corporations could create significantly greater value than they currently do for a range of stakeholders – including workers, suppliers, customers and community members – with small impacts on shareholder value.

Responses

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21%
4%
2%
4%
23%
44%
2%
Question C:

Effective mechanisms for boards of directors to ensure that CEOs act in ways that balance the interests of all stakeholders would be straightforward to introduce.

Responses

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21%
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13%
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US

Inequality, Populism, and Redistribution

This week’s IGM Economic Experts Panel statements:

A) Rising inequality is straining the health of liberal democracy.

B) Enacting more redistributive expenditures and policies would be likely to limit the rise of populism.

C) Governments should allocate more resources to policies that would be likely to limit the rise of populism, even if it means higher public debt or lower public spending in other areas. 
Europe

Inequality, Populism, and Redistribution

This week’s IGM European Economic Experts Panel statements:

A) Rising inequality is straining the health of liberal democracy.

B) Enacting more redistributive expenditures and policies would be likely to limit the rise of populism in Europe.

C) European governments should allocate more resources to policies that would be likely to limit the rise of populism in Europe, even if it means higher public debt or lower public spending in other areas.

  
US

Stakeholder Capitalism

This week’s IGM Economic Experts Panel statements:

A) Having companies run to maximize shareholder value creates significant negative externalities for workers and communities.

B) Appropriately managed corporations could create significantly greater value than they currently do for a range of stakeholders – including workers, suppliers, customers and community members – with negligible impacts on shareholder value.

C) Effective mechanisms for boards of directors to ensure that CEOs act in ways that balance the interests of all stakeholders would be straightforward to introduce. 
Europe

European Fiscal and Monetary Policy

With the Eurozone economy weakening, many commentators are calling on the European Central Bank (ECB) to provide fresh stimulus. But what if the diverse monetary policy tools used by the ECB since the financial crisis have reached the limits of their effectiveness in promoting recovery? Could European governments contribute to stimulating the economy by increasing public spending or reducing taxes? And should fiscal policy now be focused more on raising demand by ‘loosening the public purse strings’ than on reducing public debt?

 
Europe

ECB Appointments

Christine Lagarde, currently head of the International Monetary Fund, has been nominated to succeed Mario Draghi as president of the European Central Bank (ECB). The announcement came as part of a package of appointments to other key roles in European institutions: the president of the European Commission; the president of the European Council; and the European Union’s high representative for foreign and security policy.

 

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