Research Projects

Research Resources

CEPA Research Projects

CEPA was established in Fall of 1995 as the research center of the Department of Economics at the New School for Social Research. The three main areas of research are macroeconomic policy, inequality and poverty, and globalization.

Current Projects

• Program on Markets, Equality and Democracy
  (since 2002)
• Enhancing Market Transparency and the Financial Risk Management Function
  (since 2001, funded by the Ford Foundation)
• Liberalization and Employment Performance in the OECD
  (since 2000, funded by the MacArthur Foundation)
• External Liberalization, Economic Growth and Distribution, and Social Policy
  (since 2000, funded by the Ford Foundation)

Associated Projects

• High Achieving Women Research
  (since 2000)

Past Projects

• Impacts of Globalization: Finance, Distribution, Labor and Social Policy
  (1999-2001, funded by the MacArthur Foundation)
• Globalization, Technology and Institutional Change: A Jobs Perspective on the Growth in U.S. Earnings Inequality
  (1999-2001, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation)
• International Capital Markets and the Future of Economic Policy
  (1998-2000, funded by the Ford Foundation)
• The World Financial Authority
  (1999, funded by the Ford Foundation)
• Project on the U.S. Wage Collapse
  (1998-1999, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation)
• Globalization and Social Policy in Developing Economies
  (1998-1999, funded by the United Nations and the MacArthur Foundation)
• Globalization and Social Policy
  (1996-1998, funded by the MacArthur Foundation)
• Macro-Modeling Project
  (1997-1998, with the Jerome Levy Economics Institute)
• Institute of Developing Economies Project
  (1997, funded by the Institute of Developing Economies)