Rhodium Group

Books

• The Implications of China-Taiwan Economic Liberalization

  Daniel H. Rosen and Zhi Wang | January 2011 Daniel Rosen and Zhi Wang's definitive study on China-Taiwan economic liberalization comes on the even of the third round of talks between the two countries on an Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement.

• US Pension Reform: Lessons from Other Countries

  by Jacob Funk Kirkegaard | November 2009 It is generally accepted that Social Security must be reformed, but there is little agreement on how exactly this should be done. US Pension Reform: Lessons from Other Countries looks at the social pension reforms of twelve countries, assesses the current US Social Security program, and evaluates how these twelve models inform opportunities for adaptation of the current system.

• Leveling the Carbon Playing Field: International Competition and US Climate Policy Design

  by Trevor Houser | May 2008 Trevor Houser co-authors this analysis of the options for addressing international competitiveness issues in US climate policy design.

• The Accelerating Decline in America's High-Skilled Workforce: Implications for Immigration Policy

  by Jacob Funk Kirkegaard | December 2007 Jacob Kirkegaard explores the increasingly dysfunctional state of present US high-skilled immigration laws and recommends a coherent set of immediate reforms, which should aim to facilitate continuously high and increasingly economically necessary levels of high-skilled immigration to the United States.

• Prospects for a US-Taiwan Free Trade Agreement

  by Daniel H. Rosen | December 2004 The likelihood and potential economic benefits and drawbacks of a US-Taiwan Free Trade Agreement are explored in this book by Daniel Rosen and Nicholas Lardy.

• Transforming the European Economy

  by Jacob Funk Kirkegaard | September 2004 This study by Jacob Kirkegaard explores why Europe's growth slowed, what contribution information technology makes to growth, and what policies could facilitate economic transformation.