Brad W. Setser is an American
economist
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and former staff economist at the
United States Department of the Treasury
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. He worked at
Roubini Global Economics Monitor ("RGE"), as Director of Global Research, where he co-authored the book "Bailouts or Bail-ins?" with
Nouriel Roubini
Nouriel Roubini (born March 9 1958) is a Turkish-born Iranian-American economist. He is Professor Emeritus (2021–present) and was Professor of Economics (1995–2021) at the Stern School of Business, New York University, and also chairman of Ro ...
.
Career
After leaving the RGE in 2007, Setser became a fellow for international economics at the
Council on Foreign Relations
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. In 2009, he took a position with the
National Economic Council, as Director of International Economics. In 2011, he moved to the United States Department of the Treasury, where he was the Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Economic Analysis where he worked on Europe’s financial crisis, U.S. currency policy, financial sanctions,
commodity shocks, and Puerto Rico’s debt crisis In 2015, he returned as the Steven A. Tananbaum senior fellow for international economics at the
Council on Foreign Relations
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. He is the author of the popular economics blog "Follow the Money" about global economic imbalances, which ''
The Washington Post
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'' described in 2016 as a "must-read for those in the economics blogosphere".
Setser has been interviewed in financial publications such as ''
The Wall Street Journal
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'' and the ''
Financial Times
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'' on U.S. international economic issues.
Setser has also written opinion pieces including in ''
The New York Times
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'' and ''
The Wall Street Journal
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'' on U.S. international economic policy.
In November 2020, Setser was named a member of the
Joe Biden presidential transition
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Agency Review Team to support transition efforts related to the
Office of the United States Trade Representative
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.
Bibliography
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See also
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Roubini Global Economics
Roubini Global Economics (RGE), was a small economic consultancy for financial analysis.Daniel Altman (October 8, 2012)"Nouriel Roubini; He may not be perfect, but there's never been a better time to be in the prophet of doom business,"''Forei ...
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Base erosion and profit shifting
Base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) refers to corporate tax planning strategies used by multinationals to "shift" profits from higher-tax jurisdictions to lower-tax jurisdictions or no-tax locations where there is little or no economic a ...
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Leprechaun economics
Leprechaun economics was a term coined by economist Paul Krugman to describe the 26.3 per cent rise in Irish 2015 GDP, later revised to 34.4 per cent, in a 12 July 2016 publication by the Irish Central Statistics Office (CSO), restating 2015 ...
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Ireland as a tax haven
Ireland has been labelled as a tax haven or corporate tax haven in multiple financial reports, an allegation which the state has rejected in response. Ireland is on all academic " tax haven lists", including the , and tax NGOs. Ireland does no ...
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EU illegal State aid case against Apple in Ireland
On 29 August 2016, after a two-year investigation, Margrethe Vestager of the European Commission announced: "Ireland granted illegal tax benefits to Apple". The Commission ordered Apple to pay €13 billion, plus interest, in unpaid I ...
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Double Irish, Single Malt, and CAIA
References
External links
"Follow the Money," Brad Setser's blog at the Council on Foreign RelationsBrad Setser C-SPANBloomberg TV: Brad Setser
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American bloggers
21st-century American economists
Living people
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Harvard University alumni
21st-century American non-fiction writers
Year of birth missing (living people)