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News Release
Arvind Subramanian's Book, Eclipse, Named Best Book by China Business News
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The Peterson Institute for International Economics is pleased to announce that Eclipse: Living in the Shadow of China's Economic Dominance (2011), by Arvind Subramanian, has been named one of the three Best Books of 2012 by China Business News. Subramanian, a senior fellow at the Institute and at the Center for Global Development, shares this year's Best Book honor with Henry Kissinger for his book, On China, and with Zhou Xiaochuan, the governor of the Central Bank of China, for his book, The Global Financial Crisis: Observations, Analysis and Countermeasures. The award was presented during China Business News's annual conference in Beijing on November 24. Eclipse was published by the Peterson Institute and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, and Spanish (forthcoming). There are more than 100,000 copies in print worldwide.
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Policy Brief 12-23
Updated Estimates of Fundamental Equilibrium Exchange Rates
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William R. Cline
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John Williamson
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In this semiannual update of their estimates of fundamental equilibrium exchange rates (FEERs), William R. Cline and John Williamson again find that the overvaluation of the dollar and undervaluation of the Chinese renminbi have become much more modest than in previous years, as their current account imbalances have narrowed. Seriously undervalued currencies now include those of Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Malaysia, as well as the Swiss franc and Swedish krona. Serious overvaluation persists for Turkey, New Zealand, Australia, and (though less so than before) South Africa. The authors welcome the new External Sector Report of the International Monetary Fund, which generally finds the same directions of misalignment across currencies, with the notable exception of Switzerland. However, they criticize the Fund's methodology for conflating positive (observed pattern) and normative (systemically salutary) behavior, in particular by awarding high acceptable current account surplus targets, particularly to Singapore and Switzerland, because of financial center status and past accumulation of massive external assets.
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News Release
C. Fred Bergsten Reappointed to Ex-Im Bank Advisory Committee
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The Peterson Institute for International Economics is pleased to announce that C. Fred Bergsten, director of the Institute, has been appointed to another one-year term on the Advisory Committee of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank). He was initially appointed to serve on the committee in December 2011. The Ex-Im Bank is the official export credit agency of the United States government. Its mission is to assist in financing the export of US goods and services to international markets at no cost to American taxpayers. The Ex-Im Bank approved $35.7 billion in total authorizations in FY 2012, including more than $6.1 billion directly supporting small-business export sales. Its authorizations support an estimated $50 billion in US export sales and approximately 255,000 American jobs.
The Advisory Committee to the Board, established in 1983, has 16 members appointed by the bank's board of directors, who are in turn appointed by the President of the United States. The committee advises the bank on its programs, assesses whether it is meeting its mandate to help exports, and provides comments for inclusion in its reports to the Congress. Its membership is drawn from leaders in government, finance, environment, small business, production, agriculture, labor, and services. Other members include Governor Christine Gregoire of the state of Washington, former Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Carol Browner and Citigroup Board Chairman Michael O'Neill.
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