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Inaugural Pakistan Development Forum
Nov. 12, 2019

What are the next steps for economic policy in Pakistan after its recent debt crisis? In late October, Pakistan’s top government finance officials joined faculty and students from the Harvard Kennedy School, Princeton, and other universities to discuss the question.

At the forum, Pakistan’s financial authorities struck tones of…

2018 Import Tariffs Hit US Consumers
Nov. 1, 2019

A new paper by Princeton Professor Stephen Redding and co-authors Mary Amiti (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) and David Weinstein (Columbia University) explores the effects of the 2018 tariff increases on prices and welfare.

The full paper is

Op-Ed in Financial Times by JC de Swaan
Oct. 28, 2019

An op-ed by JC de Swaan in the Financial Times observes that the Japanese economy is in better shape today than in 2010 and that private equity investors should take note. JC de Swaan is a partner at Cornwall Capital and a lecturer in economics at Princeton University…

Patents, Piracy, and Innovation
Oct. 14, 2019

Are patents necessary for innovation and do developing countries need a patent system to be innovative? On October 2nd, Professor Petra Moser of New York University spoke to students and faculty at the Economic History Workshop at Princeton University about the relationship between…

Dudley Maintains Positive Outlook for the US Economy
Oct. 14, 2019
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Written by Samuel Dearden
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Could Ultra-Low Interest Rates Be Contractionary?
Sept. 19, 2019
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Written by Alejandro Abisambra

As the Fed lowered rates for the second time this year in response to uncertainties in the economic outlook, economists Ernest Liu and Atif Mian…

Audrey Cheng awarded George B. Wood Legacy Junior Prize
Sept. 19, 2019

JRCPPF Undergraduate Associate, Audrey Cheng, was honored for academic achievement at the 2019 Opening Exercises. University Presdident Eisgruber and Dean of College Dolan presented Cheng and classmate Eitan Levin with the George B. Wood Legacy Junior Prize. The prize is awarded to members of the senior class in recognition of exceptional…

Governor's Woods Foundation Makes Gift to Macrofinance Lab
Sept. 16, 2019

The Philadelphia-based Governor's Woods Foundation has made a generous gift to the Julis-Rabinowitz Center's Macrofinance Lab. The gift will support the lab's research, in particular, the work sectoral debt led by postdoctoral associate Karsten Mülller.

2019 Short Course on Financial Markets
Sept. 16, 2019

A group of 42 graduate students from the Masters in Public Affairs and Masters in Public Policy programs gathered on September 5-7, 2019 for our intensive short course, Financial Markets for Policy Professionals. Now in it's 10th year, the course provides a framework for future public…

Congratulations to the Class of 2019
May 31, 2019

JRCPPF congratulates our student associates in the Class of 2019! We wish them much success in their future careers.  

Undergraduate Associates Class of 2019

Bassam J. Alalawi (Economics, Certificate in Cognitive Science)+

Hamza H. Chaudhry (Woodrow Wilson School, Certificate in History & Practice of Diplomacy)