Macroeconomics

Khan presents a theory of financial crises in the age of globalization from an evolutionary perspective and suggests policies that may be necessary for averting or managing new financial crises.

Sebastian Dullien gives a novel explanation for unemployment and inflation in the Euro-Zone.

In the aftermath of the recent financial crisis, the federal government has pursued significant regulatory reforms, including proposals to measure and monitor systemic risk.

A penetrating analysis from one of the defining voices of contemporary economics.

An authoritative guide to the new economics of our crisis-filled century.

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey's latest meticulous work examines how economics can become a more "e;human"e; science.

This pioneering volume uses modern statistical and simulation techniques to explain the process of wealth transmission and the persistent problem of the unequal distribution of wealth.

How has the Bank of Japan (BOJ) helped shape Japan's economic growth during the past two decades?

Demographics is a vital field of study for understanding social and economic change and it has attracted attention in recent years as concerns have grown over the aging populations of developed nations.

Modern monetary economics has been significantly influenced by the knowledge and insight brought to the field by the work of Anna J.

Measuring innovation is a challenging task, both for researchers and for national statisticians, and it is increasingly important in light of the ongoing digital revolution.

While there is ample evidence that high inflation is harmful, little is known about how best to reduce inflation or how far it should be reduced.

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Governments and corporations may chip in, but around the world houshold saving is the biggest factor in national saving.

The "e;Argentine disappointment"e;-why Argentina persistently failed to achieve sustained economic stability during the twentieth century-is an issue that has mystified scholars for decades.

In developed countries, men's labor force participation at older ages has increased in recent years, reversing a decades-long pattern of decline.

The National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) was enacted by Congress in June of 1933 to assist the nation's recovery during the Great Depression.

At any given time, a limited number of national currencies are used as instruments of international commerce, to settle foreign trade transactions or store value for investors and central banks.

In recent years the definition of an economic transfer-a payment to an individual or institution that does not arise out of current productive activity-has been subject to even wider interpretation.

In Monetary Policy, leading monetary economists discuss applied aspects of monetary policy and offer practical new research on the timing, magnitude, and channels of central banking actions.

There is probably no concept other than saving for which U.

Most of the existing research on economic history relies either solely or ultimately on calculations of material interest to explain the major events of the modern world.

The fraction of the population over age sixty-five in many developed countries is projected to rise, in some cases sharply, in coming decades.

The volume of capital flows between industrial and developing countries has grown dramatically in the past decade and has become a major issue in a world that is increasingly "e;globalized.

This volume explores East Asia's macroeconomic experience in the 1980s and the economic impact of East Asia's growth on the rest of the world.

The exchange rate is a crucial variable linking a nation's domestic economy to the international market.

Extremely low inflation rates have moved to the forefront of monetary policy discussions.

In this volume, specialists from traditionally separate areas in economics and finance investigate issues at the conjunction of their fields.

Economists wish to compare prices, real income, and output across countries and regions for many purposes.

This volume presents the latest thoughts of a brilliant group of young economists on one of the most persistent economic problems facing the United States and the world, inflation.

In what constitutes a landmark in the field of national accounts, Raymond W.

Hidden behind a number of economic crises in the mid- to late 1990s-including Argentina's headline-grabbing monetary and political upheaval-is that fact that Latin American economies have, generally speaking, improved dramatically in recent years.

This benchmark volume addresses the debate over the effects of early industrialization on standards of living during the decades before the Civil War.

The special task of this book is to present a statistical and theoretical analysis of the relation between the quantity of money and other key economic magnitudes over periods longer than those dominated by cyclical fluctuations-hence the term trends in the title.

The rise of America from a colonial outpost to one of the world's most sophisticated and productive economies was facilitated by the establishment of a variety of economic enterprises pursued within the framework of laws and institutions that set the rules for their organization and operation.

The foreign exchange market is the largest, fastest-growing financial market in the world.

The main topics treated in this conference volume are problems of deflation and quality change, the adequacy of the data used to construct the U.

The United States in the World Economy offers the results of a conference organized by the National Bureau of Economics in 1987.

These thirteen papers and accompanying commentaries are the first fruits of an ongoing research project that has concentrated on developing simulation models that incorporate the behavioral responses of individuals and businesses to alternative tax rules and rates and on expanding computational general equilibrium models that analyze the long-run effects of changes on the economy as a whole.

China's economic boom over the last two decades has taken many analysts by surprise, given the ongoing role of central government planning.

More than half a decade has passed since the bursting of the housing bubble and the collapse of Lehman Brothers.

Robust and reliable measures of consumer expenditures are essential for analyzing aggregate economic activity and for measuring differences in household circumstances.

Economists and policymakers are still trying to understand the lessons recent financial crises in Asia and other emerging market countries hold for the future of the global financial system.

America's expansion to one of the richest nations in the world was partly due to a steady increase in labor productivity, which in turn depends upon the invention and deployment of new technologies and on investments in both human and physical capital.

The management of financial crises in emerging markets is a vital and high-stakes challenge in an increasingly global economy.

Although inflation is much feared for its negative effects on the economy, how to measure it is a matter of considerable debate that has important implications for interest rates, monetary supply, and investment and spending decisions.

The result of a National Bureau of Economic Research Income and Wealth conference held in December 1983, this volume looks at the concept of "e;economic well-being"e; and the ways that analysts have tried to measure it.

Inflation became the dominant economic, social, and political problem of the industrialized West during the 1970s.

Since the Great Depression, researchers and statisticians have recognized the need for more extensive methods for measuring economic growth and sustainability.

This book offers a critical perspective on the issues related to women's empowerment, microfinance, and entrepreneurship in India.