Peterson Institute Events: Audio

The Peterson Institute for International Economics held an event November 5, 2013, to discuss the challenges to labor markets in the United States and around the globe posed by the Great Recession. In this video, David Blanchflower compares the UK and US experiences in creating jobs and confronting structural unemployment, Tomas Hellebrandt presents important new findings showing how the recent downturn and resulting rise in joblessness has affected income inequality, and Jacob Funk Kirkegaard discusses how labor market reforms in Germany increased employment and labor force participation without adverse inequality effects.

Discussants David Blanchflower, Tomas Hellebrandt, and Jacob Funk Kirkegaard take audience questions following their presentations on challenges to labor markets in the United States and around the globe posed by the Great Recession. The event was held at the Peterson Institute for International Economics on November 5, 2013.

Douglas H. Brooks, Asian Development Bank (ADB), presents the ADB's flagship publication Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2013 (Key Indicators) at the Peterson Institute for International Economics on October 29, 2013. Robert Dohner, United States Department of the Treasury, offered comments following Brooks's presentation.

Douglas H. Brooks, Asian Development Bank, takes audience questions following his presentation on the ADB's flagship publication Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2013 at the Peterson Institute for International Economics on October 29, 2013.

Anna Gelpern, Franklin Allen, David Stockton, and Angel Ubide take audience questions following their presentations at

With US fiscal dysfunction and the threat of default likely to persist, the Peterson Institute held a panel discussion on October 23, 2013, to understand what is at stake. Anna Gelpern, PIIE senior fellow and professor at Georgetown Law School, presented a legal perspective on the uniqueness of US Treasuries and of US constitutional constraints. Franklin Allen, professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, discussed the likely prioritization of US federal spending in a short-run emergency versus the long-run need for balance. David Stockton, senior fellow at PIIE and Macroeconomic Advisers, provided an assessment of the impact of uncertainty in the US Treasuries market on the American and world economies. Angel Ubide, PIIE senior fellow and co-director of global economics at D.E. Shaw Group, presented an analysis of the likely market effect over the short-term and longer-horizon of US fiscal uncertainty.

W. Michael Blumenthal and Stuart Eizenstat take audience questions at the release meeting of Blumenthal's new memoir, From Exile to Washington: A Memoir of Leadership in the Twentieth Century, at the Peterson Institute on October 21, 2013.

Stuart Eizenstat comments on the memoir by W. Michael Blumenthal, former US Secretary of the Treasury, From Exile to Washington: A Memoir of Leadership in the Twentieth Century, at the Peterson Institute on October 21, 2013.

The Honorable W. Michael Blumenthal, former US Secretary of the Treasury, presents his memoir, From Exile to Washington: A Memoir of Leadership in the Twentieth Century, at the Peterson Institute on October 21, 2013.

Greg Ip, US economics editor for the Economist, presents the Economist's 2013 global economy survey at the Peterson Institute on October 16, 2013. Peterson Institute Senior Fellows Joseph E. Gagnon and Arvind Subramanian offer their own analysis following Ip's presentation.

Greg Ip, US economics editor for the Economist, takes audience questions following his presentation on the Economist's 2013 global economy survey at the Peterson Institute on October 16, 2013. Peterson Institute Senior Fellows Joseph E. Gagnon and Arvind Subramanian joined him in the discussion.

Jose de Gregorio (former Governor of the Central Bank of Chile), Adam S. Posen (Peterson Institute for International Economics) and Changyong Rhee (Asian Development Bank) present and engage in the third panel discussion at the release event for the new book "Responding to Financial Crisis: Lessons from Asia Then, the United States and Europe Now" at the Peterson Institute on October 11, 2013. The book, a joint study from PIIE and ADB, contrasts Asia's successful efforts to respond to the recent crisis with its performance during its own crisis in the late 1990s, and the gap between the recommendations made to Asian policymakers by US and EU leaders then and what they have practiced during their own crisis since 2008.

Joseph E. Gagnon and Simon Johnson (Peterson Institute for International Economics) and Donghyun Park (Asian Development Bank) present and engage in the first panel discussion at the release event for the new book "Responding to Financial Crisis: Lessons from Asia Then, the United States and Europe Now" at the Peterson Institute on October 11, 2013. The book, a joint study from PIIE and ADB, contrasts Asia's successful efforts to respond to the recent crisis with its performance during its own crisis in the late 1990s, and the gap between the recommendations made to Asian policymakers by US and EU leaders then and what they have practiced during their own crisis since 2008.

William R. Cline and Edwin M. Truman (Peterson Institute for International Economics) and Changyong Rhee (Asian Development Bank) present and engage in the second panel discussion at the release event for the new book "Responding to Financial Crisis: Lessons from Asia Then, the United States and Europe Now" at the Peterson Institute on October 11, 2013. The book, a joint study from PIIE and ADB, contrasts Asia's successful efforts to respond to the recent crisis with its performance during its own crisis in the late 1990s, and the gap between the recommendations made to Asian policymakers by US and EU leaders then and what they have practiced during their own crisis since 2008.

Lucio Vinhas de Souza from Moody's and Adam S. Posen from PIIE assess the global impact of Federal Reserve tapering of stimulus at the October 10, 2013 semiannual Moody's Investor Service-PIIE Sovereign Economic Panel held at the Peterson Institute.