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Alissa Amico is Managing Director of GOVERN, the Economic and Corporate Governance Center.

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  1. How Ownership Concentration Is Happening, and Why It Matters
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    How Ownership Concentration Is Happening, and Why It Matters

    Jan 3, 2020 Alissa Amico warns that the demise of dispersed equity holdings spells trouble for the global economy.

  2. The AI Governance Challenge
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    The AI Governance Challenge

    Mar 15, 2019 Alissa Amico calls for a concerted effort by governments and private companies to develop human-centric standards.

  3. State Capitalism 2.0
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    State Capitalism 2.0

    Sep 5, 2018 Alissa Amico traces a broad shift away from privatization, and toward the modernization of state-owned enterprises.

  4. A Regulatory Race to the Bottom?
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    A Regulatory Race to the Bottom?

    Aug 14, 2017 Alissa Amico warns that institutional investors lose out when state-owned enterprises get preferential treatment.

  5. Corporate Governance at Saudi Aramco
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    Corporate Governance at Saudi Aramco

    Apr 5, 2017 Alissa Amico examines what the Kingdom must do before it takes the world's largest oil company public.

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    Why the US Can’t Win the Trade War With China – and Shouldn’t Try

    Qiyuan Xu argues that high capital outflows – largely a result of US policy – have resulted in an undervalued renminbi.
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    The Dilemmas of the Dollar

    Barry Eichengreen

    The dollar's strength, particularly against major Asian currencies, has triggered a wave of skittishness in financial markets. Can anything be done to stem the greenback's rise, and even if something can be done, should it?

     asks whether anything can or should be done about the greenback's strength, especially against Asian currencies.
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    Clean Cooking Advances Women’s Empowerment

    Rachel Ruto outlines a gender-based strategy for improving energy access and reducing air pollution in Africa.
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    There Can Be No Business as Usual for European Industry

    Judith Kirton-Darling urges EU leaders to make a renewed Green Deal, backed by competitiveness-bolstering initiatives, a top priority.
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    Protests of Despair

    Slavoj Žižek

    While the ongoing pro-Palestinian student protests have many superficial similarities to the student uprisings of the late 1960s, only the latter envisioned a new political movement to ameliorate the ills of their time. The current protesters' goals are far more modest, which makes them all the more tragic.

     sees the pro-Palestinian student demonstrations as a signal of a much deeper, widespread malaise.
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    The Rise of the Finternet

    Agustín Carstens & Nandan Nilekani foresee a world in which cheap, secure, and near-instantaneous financial transactions are available to all.
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    Don’t Fret About Green Subsidies

    Dani Rodrik sees no good argument against industrial policies that accelerate growth in decarbonization industries.
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    Europe’s Geoeconomic Competitiveness Challenge

    Daniel Gros highlights the security risks raised by the prolonged decline of the EU’s relative economic power.
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    How Exceptional Is China’s Crony-Capitalist Boom?

    Yuen Yuen Ang explains how corruption both drove the country's GDP growth and sowed the seeds for its current economic problems.

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