Mon, Dec 7 @6:30pm - Trade Policy & Biden

On Monday, Dec 7 at 6:30 PM, we will hold an online-only club meeting.  Our speaker will be Keith Maskus on the likely direction of trade policies under Biden.

 

President-elect Biden will face at least 4 high-priority and interrelated trade issues to address. These include working to ensure an equitable and efficient global distribution for Covid vaccines, reengaging with the global trading system to reinvigorate the WTO, cooperating with Europe on addressing challenges raised by China, and determining best avenues for reorienting trade and support policies to better reflect the needs of the American middle class.  These are complex issues defying simple solutions. Professor Maskus will overview the key tradeoffs involved and how a Biden Administration might approach them.
 

 

  

To join the meeting, go to  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84684272677

 

If you have not used Zoom before, see the instructions under Zoom and SET UP below.

 

 

Keith Maskus is Arts and Sciences Professor of Distinction in Economics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He was Chief Economist of the US State Department from 2016 to 2017 and a Lead Economist at the World Bank in 2002. He is a Research Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and a consultant for the World Trade Organization and the World Intellectual Property Organization. Maskus received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. He has written extensively about various aspects of intellectual property rights, international trade and investment, and technology. His most recent book is Private Rights and Public Problems: The Global Economics of Intellectual Property in the 21st Century.

 

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To join the meeting, go to  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84684272677

 

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