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Trade Talks

Chad P. Bown (Peterson Institute for International Economics) hosts a podcast about the economics of international trade and policy. From trade wars to trade deals, this podcast covers trade developme... Read more

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190. Climate change, floods, and the future of auto supply chains

190. Climate change, floods, and the future of auto supply chains

What consumers can expect from auto companies investing in supply chain resilience as weather disasters loom.

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189. South Korea’s controversial industrial policy

189. South Korea’s controversial industrial policy

How South Korea’s Heavy and Chemical Industry Drive policy of 1973-79 worked and may have contributed to its economic ri... Read more

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188. Did responsible sourcing by multinationals help workers in poor countries?

188. Did responsible sourcing by multinationals help workers in poor countries?

What happened to workers and others in Costa Rica when global companies imposed new responsible sourcing codes of conduc... Read more

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187. Industrial policy and the rise of Romania’s Silicon Valley

187. Industrial policy and the rise of Romania’s Silicon Valley

How a 2001 income tax break for Romanian software programmers helped transform the country’s information technology sect... Read more

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186. How US lead regulations hurt Mexican babies

186. How US lead regulations hurt Mexican babies

Higher US lead standards in 2009 resulted in more production and pollution from Mexican plants. Nearby infants and kids ... Read more

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185. The historic collapse of Switzerland’s watch industry

185. The historic collapse of Switzerland’s watch industry

New quartz technology and competition from Japan devastated the dominant Swiss watch industry of the 1970s. What happene... Read more

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184. The US-EU fights over electric vehicles and the Inflation Reduction Act

184. The US-EU fights over electric vehicles and the Inflation Reduction Act

EVs headlined the transatlantic dispute over the Inflation Reduction Act. That feud may be over, but other conflicts rem... Read more

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183. How the United States cleaned up container ship pollution

183. How the United States cleaned up container ship pollution

In 2012, the EPA started regulating maritime emissions of air pollutants. The shipping industry’s response offers lesson... Read more

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182. Is China’s industrial policy working?

182. Is China’s industrial policy working?

The “Made in China 2025” subsidies both provoked a trade war and inspired similar moves by the US and other economies. B... Read more

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181. US-China trade war fallout: This is what decoupling looks like

181. US-China trade war fallout: This is what decoupling looks like

How do we reconcile “record-level” US-China imports and exports when tariffs remain on more than half of trade between t... Read more

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