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One-Pager No. 73
May 05, 2025
The Incoming Recession: Are Imports the Real Culprit?
AbstractThe preliminary estimates for real GDP growth in the first quarter of 2025 show an annualized contraction rate of 0.28 percent, along with an extraordinary increase in imports of 41.3 percent. Most commentators rushed to indicate that the contraction was due to the rise in imports, as, for instance, with the recent Reuters headline stating […]
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Policy Notes
April 21, 2025
Trump’s Tariffs: Ending Globalization
AbstractThe Trump administration is reintroducing a number of 40-year-old, Reagan-era economic and military policies, but is particularly preoccupied with the imposition of tariffs for all of the country’s imports. Trump, in his inaugural address, placed significant emphasis on what the imposition of tariffs would represent, in his view: “Instead of taxing our citizens to enrich […]
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Strategic Analysis
March 26, 2025
Greece: Growing on an Unsustainable Path
AbstractGreece has been among the fastest growing economies among the EU member states in the post-COVID-19 period. However, in a previous (February 2024) report, Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, Nikolaos Rodousakis, Giuliano Toshiro Yajima, and Gennaro Zezza raised serious concerns regarding Greece’s dependency on imports. In their latest report, the authors argue that these problems have worsened, and the […]
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Strategic Analysis
November 05, 2024
Economic Challenges of the New U.S. Administration
AbstractOn the eve of the 2024 US presidential election, the authors share their latest macroeconomic projections using the Levy Institute’s tailored stock-flow consistent model and evaluate two alternative policy scenarios, depending upon the next occupant of the White House: (1) a significant increase in import tariffs and decrease in the marginal tax rate, and (2) a substantial increase in government expenditure paired with an increase in the marginal tax rate.
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Strategic Analysis
June 04, 2024
U.S. Economic Outlook: Prospects for 2024 and Beyond
AbstractIn this report, Institute President Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, Research Scholar Giuliano T. Yajima, and Senior Scholar Gennaro Zezza discuss the rapid recovery of the US economy in the post-pandemic period. They find that robust consumption and investment and a relaxation of fiscal policy were the key drivers of accelerated GDP growth—however, the signs that the […]
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Working Paper No. 1049
May 07, 2024
Deindustrialization from the Center Perspective: US Trade and Manufacturing in the Last Two Decades
AbstractWe argue that the US trade and industry sector has experienced several unsustainable sectoral processes, including (i) a fall in the trade balance in machinery and equipment and high-tech (HT) industries, (ii) a rise in import multipliers in machinery and equipment and HT industries, (iii) a fall in the manufacturing share of GDP in machinery […]
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Strategic Analysis
February 15, 2024
Greece: Time to Reduce the Dependency on Imports
AbstractIn this report, Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, Nikolaos Rodousakis, Giuliano T. Yajima, and Gennaro Zezza investigate the determinants of the recent performance of the Greek economy. Despite geopolitical instability from the continuing Ukraine-Russia and Israel-Gaza wars and higher-than-expected inflation rates, the country has managed to register the highest growth rates among eurozone member-states in 2021 and […]
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Working Paper No. 1031
October 09, 2023
A Stock-Flow Ecological Model from a Latin American Perspective
AbstractThis study aims to develop an ecological stock-flow consistent (SFC) model based on the Latin American–stylized facts regarding economic, financial, and environmental features. We combine the macro-financial theoretical framework by Pérez-Caldentey et al. (2021, 2023) and the ecological modeling of Carnevali et al. (2020) and Dafermos et al. (2018). We discuss two scenarios that test […]
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Strategic Analysis
July 20, 2023
Will the US Debt Ceiling Deal Derail the Pandemic Recovery?
AbstractIn this Strategic Analysis, Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, Michalis Nikiforos, Giuliano T. Yajima, and Gennaro Zezza discuss how the current state and structural features of the US economy might affect its future trajectory. The recent recovery after the pandemic has been remarkable, when compared to previous cycles, and offers evidence of the efficacy of fiscal policy. […]
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Working Paper No. 1013
January 18, 2023
The Economic and Environmental Effects of a Green Employer of Last Resort
AbstractWe assess the sectoral impact of the implementation of a “green” employer of last resort (ELR) program in the US, based on an environmental modification of an extended Kurz’s (1985) multiplier framework and data from OECD Input-Output tables. We use these multipliers to estimate the impact of an “optimal” ELR, designed to maximize the impact […]
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Policy Notes No. 3
May 12, 2022
Chile: The Road to Joy Is Paved with Obstacles
AbstractIn the second round of the Chilean presidential elections, the coalition led by Gabriel Boric secured a victory under the premise of delivering long-awaited reforms to a financially volatile, structurally fragile, and deeply unequal economic structure. In this policy note, Giuliano Toshiro Yajima sheds light on these three aspects of the Chilean economy, showing that […]
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Working Paper No. 1004
March 18, 2022
Financial Barriers to Structural Change in Developing Economies
AbstractLiabilities denominated in foreign currency have established a permanent role on emerging market firms’ balance sheets, which implies that changes in both global liquidity conditions and in the value of the currency may have a long-lasting effect for them. In order to consider the financial conditions that may encourage (discourage) structural change in a small, […]
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Working Paper No. 999
January 18, 2022
Structural Change, Productive Development, and Capital Flows
AbstractThe outbreak of COVID-19 brought back to the forefront the crucial importance of structural change and productive development for economic resilience to economic shocks. Several recent contributions have already stressed the perverse relationship that may exist between productive backwardness and the intensity of the COVID-19 socioeconomic crisis. In this paper, we analyze the factors that […]
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Working Paper No. 995
November 03, 2021
The Employer of Last Resort Scheme and the Energy Transition
AbstractThe health and economic crises of 2020–21 have revived the debate on fiscal policy as a major tool for stabilization and meeting long-term goals. The massive surge in unemployment, due to the economic disruption of the lockdown measures, has increased the interest in policies that target employment directly instead of trying to achieve it via […]
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Working Paper No. 980
December 01, 2020
Balance Sheet Effects of a Currency Devaluation
AbstractThis working paper empirically and theoretically analyzes the exchange rate’s role in Mexico’s development for the period 2004–19. We test the hypothesis of the re(emergence) of the balance sheet effect due to an increase in external debt in the nonfinancial corporate sector; higher foreign debt would affect private investment after episodes of real currency depreciation, […]
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