Innovation policy and the economy

.Vol. II

Tax policy and the economy. Vol. 16.

American economic policy in the 1990s

Macroeconomics Annual 2001

The NBER Macroeconomics Annual presents, extends, and applies pioneering work in macroeconomics and stimulates work by macroeconomists on important policy issues. Each paper in the is followed by comments and discussion.

Too sensational

on the choice of exchange rates regimes

In this volume, W. Max Corden presents a systematic and accessible overview of the choice of exchange rate regimes. Reviewing many types of regimes, he shows how the choice of an exchange rate regime is related to both fiscal policy and trade policy. Building on ...

Designing financial systems in transition economies

strategies for reform in Central and Eastern Europe

This collection examines the design of financial systems for central and eastern European countries engaged in the transition to market-based economies. It highlights the need for better approaches to measuring performance and providing incentives in banking and for financial mechanisms to encourage private-sector growth. Written ...

Bertil Ohlin

a centennial celebration, 1899-1999

Bertil Ohlin, international trade theorist, winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Economics, and leader of the Swedish Liberal Party for more than 20 years, is considered to be the major single influence on the development of international economics in the 20th century. This volume ...

Econometrics

.V.3. Economic growth in the information age

The decline in the prices of information technology (IT) has enhanced the role of IT investment as a source of economic growth in the US. This text shows that IT provides the foundation for the resurgence of American economic growth. Information technology rests in turn ...

Frontiers in health policy research

.Volume 5

Productivity, inequality, and the digital economy

a transatlantic prespective

The widespread diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICT) has had controversial, seemingly paradoxical consequences. ICT are viewed as driving growth and employment in the United States, while contributing to European unemployment and the so-called Eurosclerosis. At the same time, both the United States and ...

Nothing is sacred

economic ideas for the New Millennium

In this text, Robret Barro applies his free market arguments to a diverse range of issues. These include global problems such as growth and debt, as well as social issues such as the predictive value of SAT scores, drug legalization, the economics of beauty, and ...

Classical general equilibrium theory

Although general equilibrium theory originated in the late 19th century, modern elaboration and development of the theory began in the 1930s and 1940s. This book focuses on the version of the theory developed in the second half of the 20th century, referrred to by Lionel ...

Pricing the priceless

a health care conundrum

The health care industry differs from most other industries in that medical pricing is primarily administered by the government and private insurers and in that it uses several types of contracts. Providers may receive a fixed sum for all necessary services within a given period ...

The economics of the World Trading System

Descripción: World trade is governed by the rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the successor to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). The WTO sets rules of conduct for the international trade of goods and services and for intellectual property rights, provides ...

Exchange rate regimes

choices and consequences

Few topics in international economics are as controversial as the choice of an exchange rate regime. Since the breakdown of the Bretton Woods system in the early 1970s, countries have adopted a wide variety of regimes, ranging from pure floats at one extreme to currency ...

Financial policies in emerging markets

The 1994-1995 Mexican crisis was the first in a succession of financial crises to hit emerging markets in Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, Russia, Brazil, Argentina and Turkey. In almost all these cases, problems in the banking sector played a key role. Any analysis of ...

Applied computational economics and finance

Cost proxy models and telecommunications policy

a new empirical approach to regulation

The telecommunications industry defies easy characterization. The long- distance sector is highly competitive and the local exchange sector much less so, while digital transmission and switching have blurred the distinction between traditional voice communication and the transmission of video and data messages. Regulation of this ...

The nature of the farm

Contracts, risk, and organization in agriculture

Going alone

the case for relaxed reciprocity in freeing trade