Topics in the Current Policy Debate

Trade Restrictions: China

• Economist topic page: trade barriers
• Winners and losers in a China-America trade war (Economist, Jan 2017)
• What might a trade war between America and China look like? (Economist, Feb 2017)

Taxes

Border Adjustments, Tariffs, VAT, and the Corporate Income Tax, Jan 2017

• discusses the implications of corporate tax reforms, including the Trump proposal

Useful sources for undergraduate research

• Journal of Economic Perspectives
• Brookings Institution, which also has topics pages
• NY Fed: Liberty Street Economics, Economic Policy Review
• MN Fed: Quarterly Review
• SF Fed: Economic Letter
• St. Louis Fed Economic Synopses and Review
• World Bank or IMF publications
• The Economist, NY Times, or Wall Street Journal are fine, but you also want to dig deeper
• Google scholar is useful for finding articles.

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