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Economic Policy Center ProjectsThe Economic Policy section is tackling a new project this Spring. We are teaming up with a professor of international finance and economic development to produce an original, student-written policy piece concerning poverty and financial institutions in the developing world. Our professor, Mr. Ross Levine, is a Paul Dupee Faculty Fellow at the Watson Institute of International Studies at Brown University. He is also a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research, an Associate Editor of the Journal of Financial Intermediation, and finally an Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Growth. Mr. Levine is pleased and excited to help guide the project this semester and hopes the project will lay the foundation for other similar joint efforts in the years to come. The idea for a joint research project is the product of the dearth of availability of economic policy papers on campus. Due to the lack of classes that address policy relating to economics, typically our editors are at a loss come the end of the semester for papers. In our inaugural issue, our Editor used an honors thesis that was related to policy and shortened it down to the appropriate size. Our team met early in the semester and decided that instead of attempting to collect policy papers from related classes that could be shaped to fit into our section, we decided that it would be more worthwhile and rewarding to produce our own piece of policy. Mr. Levine’s research deals primarily with the effects of banking regulation on economic growth as well as the effects of financial institutions on poverty in developing nations. Our section will select one paper from Mr. Levine’s published works that presents interesting results, use the data that Mr. Levine is kindly providing to us, and do our own analysis to reach a new result. Or, in the case that the data is difficult to manipulate or the analysis is beyond the scope of our abilities, we will select a paper that has policy implications and write a policy recommendation based on that. We are all excited about the project and hope to have it completed in time for the next issue. For more information to to aid our project, please contact
Mark Ramadan
Economic Policy Editor
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