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Global Economic Policy 20/21 OUTLINE/READING LIST

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Topic 1: Challenges for Global Economic Policy

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Lecture 1

Alston (2020). The parlous state of poverty eradication. Final report of the outgoing UN Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights

Horton, R. (2020). Offline: Covid-19 is not a pandemic. Comment. The Lancet 396(10255): 874

UNCTAD (2020). Trade and Development Report: From global pandemic to prosperity for all: avoiding another lost decade. United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.

Virus lays bare frailty of the social contract (FT editorial 3 April 2020)

Austerity: The New Normal (Ortiz, I. and M. Cummings)

Topic 2: Public policy addressing poverty and inequality

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Topic 3: Key debates in welfare and social policy

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Lecture 3 Slides

Cash Transfer Programmes Case Studies

Lavinas 2017 Chapter 3

Topic 4: Public policy in the age of austerity and COVID-19

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Topic 5: Production: structures, capabilities, learning and technological change

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Lecture 5 slides - Final version

Topic 6: Global and regional value chains

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Lecture 6 slides (GVCs and RVCs)

Topic 7: Industrial policy and policy space

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Topic 8: Monetary and macroprudential policies after the GFC

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Lecture 8 - Slides

Dell'Arricia et al (2018) Unconventional monetary policies

Forbes (2020) The international aspects of macroprudential policy

Joyce et al (2011) The UK quantitative easing policy

Hanson et al (2011) A macroprudential approach to financial regulation

Hartley-Rebucci (2020) QE in advanced and emerging economies

King-Tarbert (2011) Basel III-an overview

Bank of England (2012) The distributional effects of asset purchases

Claeys (2020) The ECB in the COVID-19 crisis

Colciago et al (2019) Central bank policies and inequality

Hidayat et al (2020) Impact of Basel III on Islamic finance

Lavoie-Fiebiger (2018) Unconventional monetary policies

Rizvi et al (2018) Basel I to Basel III in India

Topic 9: Fiscal policy and austerity: recent developments and debates

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Lecture 9 - Slides

Feibiger-Lavoie (2017) IMF and the new fiscalism

IMF (2020) Fiscal policies to address the pandemic

Stockhammer et al (2019) Demand effects of fiscal policy since 2008

Ortiz-Cummins (2013) The age of austerity

UNCTAD (2020) Recovering better-Expanding the space for fiscal policy

Dafermos (2015) A note on Reinhart and Rogoff

Eijffinger (2012) Rating agencies

Herndon et al (2014) Does public debt stiffle economic growth

IMF (2020) Public investment for the recovery

Paudyn (2012) Credit rating agencies

Reinhart-Rogoff (2010) Growth in a time of debt

Stubbs et al (2021) Whatever it takes-The global safety net

Topic 10: Macroeconomic policies for climate change

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Berenguer et al (2020) Integrating climate-related risks

Dikau et al (2020) Climate change and central banks

World Bank Group (2020) State and trends of carbon pricing

Rosenblum et al (2020) Why carbon pricing is not sufficient

Dafermos et al (2020) Decarbonising the ECB QE

Dafermos-Nikolaidi (2019) Fiscal policy and ecological sustainability