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The economic consequences of the second Trump administration: A preliminary assessment

GLOBAL BUSINESS AND FINANCE MAGAZINE
June 20, 2025
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The world is adjusting to President Trump’s second ‘first hundred days’ in office. This column introduces a new CEPR eBook in which over 50 experts explore how the new administration’s policies are reshaping the US economy and sending ripples across the global economic order. While the assessment is preliminary, in part due to the great […]

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Migration and regime change: Outflows follow democratic decline, inflows fuel illiberal drift

GLOBAL BUSINESS AND FINANCE MAGAZINE
May 29, 2025
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Recent years have seen a global shift towards illiberal forms of governance. Migration is often a central force in these dynamics. This column investigates the two-way interaction between international migration and political regime change. The author shows, first, that substantial immigration into politically fragile democracies can exacerbate institutional weaknesses. Second, democratic decline tends to increase […]