Carmen Reinhart of the Peterson Institute for International Economics and Belen Sbrancia of the University of Maryland calculate that average real rates on deposits and Treasury bills were negative throughout the 1945-80 period in advanced economies.

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According to William Cline of the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, DC, at least 4% of the world's grain is used to make ethanol for fuel.

ECONOMIST: Climate change and crops

Fred Bergsten, director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

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Marcus Noland, director of studies at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, D.

WSJ: Putting Statistics to Work in a Land of Illusions

Jacob Funk Kirkegaard, of the US-based Peterson Institute for International Economics, said that was a potential problem for any bailout negotiations.

BBC: Eurozone and IMF agree 10bn-euro Cyprus bailout deal

Yet as Marcus Noland, a scholar of North Korea at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, argues, Mrs Clinton is constrained by the need for Chinese support on many issues.

ECONOMIST: Tensions rise over efforts to create a new Chinese lake

Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin told a gathering of political appointees and economists at the Peterson Institute for International Economics last week that Russia was not complacent in the Putin years.

FORBES: Russia Welcomes Capitalism...Again

Simon Johnson is a professor at MIT Sloan School of Management and a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

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