Robert Z. Lawrence

 

Recent Publications

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International Organizations: The Challenge of Aligning Mission, Means and Legitimacy, World Economy September 2007

 

Succeeding in the Global Economy: A New Policy Agenda for the American Worker, (with Grant Aldonas and Matthew Slaughter) The Financial Services Forum, June 26, 2007

 

Slow Real Wage Growth and U.S. Income Inequality: Is Trade to Blame?

Presented on June 15, 2007 at "Is Free Trade Still Optimal in the 21st Century?" a conference presented by Brandeis University's, International Business School.

 

US Trade Policy: The Exception to American Exceptionalism?

Presented in June, 2007 at "Power and Superpower: Global Leadership in the 21st Century" a conference presented by the Center for American Progress and the Century Foundation.

 

The United States and the WTO Dispute Settlement System Report prepared for the Bernard and Irene Schwartz Series on American Competitiveness, CSR No. 25 (New York: Council on Foreign Relations March 2007

 

Recent US Free Trade Initiatives in the Middle East: Opportunities but no Guarantees.  Arab Competitiveness Report 2007, Geneva: World Economic Forum 2007 pp.21-31.

 

2006

 

Can America Still Compete or Does It need a New Trade Paradigm?

(with Martin N Baily) Washington DC: Peterson Institute for International Economics, Policy Brief 06-09 2006

Rule making amidst growing diversity:  A club-of-clubs approach to WTO Reform and new issue selection

Journal of International Economic Law, 9, (4) December 2006. pp. 823-835.

South African Trade Policy Matters: Trade Performance and Trade Policy, with Lawrence Edwards. Paper for South African Growth Initiative, Center for International Development Project for the South African Treasury, September 2006.

China and the Multilateral Trading System

Presented on May 11, 2006 at "China and Emerging Asia:  reorganizing the Global Economy?" a conference presented by the Korean Institute for Economic Policy (KIEP) and Center for International Commerce and Finance (CICF) at the Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University.

 

2005

 

Should Export Subsidies be Treated Differently?

(with Nathaniel Stankard). October 18, 2005. Originally presented in May, 2005 at a conference on the WTO Dispute Settlement System presented by the University of Wisconsin.

 

2004

America's Sorry Trade Performance

(with Nathaniel Stankard). The International Economy. Winter 2004. pp.36-39.

Should a U.S.-India FTA Be Part of India's Trade Strategy?

(with Rajesh Chadha) in India Policy Forum,  Suman Bery, Barry Bosworth and Arvind Panagariya (eds)  Washington DC: Brookings Institution  2004 pp. 69-134

What Happened to the Great US Job Machine? The Role of Trade and Electronic Offshoring (with Martin N. Baily) in Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, William Brainard and George Perry (eds) Fall 2004.

 

2003

Cancun Collapse Won't Halt Global Trade Reform

(with John Lipsky and James Glassman). Global Issues: Special Edition. J.P. Morgan report. November 4, 2003

Capitalizing on CAFTA :  Enhancing El Salvador’s Integration into the Global Economy

A study for FUSADES, El Salvador, 2003.

Egypt, Morocco and the United States

(with Ahmed Galal). in Jeffery Schott (ed) Free Trade Agreements and U.S. Policy (Washington DC: Institute for International Economics) July, 2003

Crimes and Punishments?:  An analysis of retaliation under the WTO

June 25, 2003

 

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Contact Information:

 

     Professor Robert Z. Lawrence

     John F. Kennedy School of Government

     Harvard University

     79 JFK Street

     Cambridge, MA  02138

 

     617-495-1118  (phone)  

     617-496-2850  (fax)       

     robert_lawrence@harvard.edu