Author: Janice Eberly
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 0815739478
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (BPEA) provides academic and business economists, government officials, and members of the financial and business communities with timely research on current economic issues.
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity: Spring 2021
Author: Janice Eberly
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 0815739478
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (BPEA) provides academic and business economists, government officials, and members of the financial and business communities with timely research on current economic issues.
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 0815739478
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (BPEA) provides academic and business economists, government officials, and members of the financial and business communities with timely research on current economic issues.
Balance of Payments Adjustment, 1945 to 1986
Author: Ms.Margaret Garritsen De Vries
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
ISBN: 9780939934935
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Written by Margaret Garritsen de Vries, former Historian of the IMF, the book describes the policies and activities the IMF has pursued in helping members achieve balane of payments adjustment. Separate treatment is given to industrial and developing countries, since their balance of payments problems have differed. As examples, Japan, France, the United Kingdom, Colombia, and Mexico as discussed.
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
ISBN: 9780939934935
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Written by Margaret Garritsen de Vries, former Historian of the IMF, the book describes the policies and activities the IMF has pursued in helping members achieve balane of payments adjustment. Separate treatment is given to industrial and developing countries, since their balance of payments problems have differed. As examples, Japan, France, the United Kingdom, Colombia, and Mexico as discussed.
Tax Policy and the Economy
Author: National Bureau of Economic Research
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262691154
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Tax policy debates, generated by one of the most sweeping reforms of the Federalincome tax system since its inception, are certain to continue for years to come, providing afertile field for economic research. This book is the first in a series of annual publications ontax policy and the economy initiated by the National Bureau of Economic Research and designed toconvey research results in a way that is accessible to a wide body of lawyers, policymakers, andbusinesspeople involved in formulating tax policy.Volume 1 of Tax Policy and the Economy presentssix studies of diverse tax policy issues, each bringing new data to bear on an important policyissue. Alan Auerbach and James Poterba examine the striking decline in corporate tax revenues as ashare of GNP John Shoven describes new developments in corporate finance and tax avoidance,concluding that these devices have helped and will continue to help corporate shareholders escapethe double taxation of dividends.Herman Leonard and Richard Zeckhauser review the experience ofseveral states with tax amnesty programs and consider the likely effects of a Federal tax amnestyprogram. Jeffrey Harris explores the economic effects of tobacco taxation, particularly the effectthe recent hike in the Federal excise tax on cigarettes had on prices and on the number of smokers.Douglas Bernheim suggests that the Federal estate tax could conceivably reduce Federal tax revenues.And in a concluding chapter, Michael Boskin and Douglas Puffert show that the redistributionsbetween married workers and single workers in the Social Security system far outweigh the muchdiscussed "marriage tax" effects of the individual income tax.Lawrence H. Summers is Professor ofEconomics at Harvard University and Research Associate at the National Bureau of EconomicResearch.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262691154
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Tax policy debates, generated by one of the most sweeping reforms of the Federalincome tax system since its inception, are certain to continue for years to come, providing afertile field for economic research. This book is the first in a series of annual publications ontax policy and the economy initiated by the National Bureau of Economic Research and designed toconvey research results in a way that is accessible to a wide body of lawyers, policymakers, andbusinesspeople involved in formulating tax policy.Volume 1 of Tax Policy and the Economy presentssix studies of diverse tax policy issues, each bringing new data to bear on an important policyissue. Alan Auerbach and James Poterba examine the striking decline in corporate tax revenues as ashare of GNP John Shoven describes new developments in corporate finance and tax avoidance,concluding that these devices have helped and will continue to help corporate shareholders escapethe double taxation of dividends.Herman Leonard and Richard Zeckhauser review the experience ofseveral states with tax amnesty programs and consider the likely effects of a Federal tax amnestyprogram. Jeffrey Harris explores the economic effects of tobacco taxation, particularly the effectthe recent hike in the Federal excise tax on cigarettes had on prices and on the number of smokers.Douglas Bernheim suggests that the Federal estate tax could conceivably reduce Federal tax revenues.And in a concluding chapter, Michael Boskin and Douglas Puffert show that the redistributionsbetween married workers and single workers in the Social Security system far outweigh the muchdiscussed "marriage tax" effects of the individual income tax.Lawrence H. Summers is Professor ofEconomics at Harvard University and Research Associate at the National Bureau of EconomicResearch.
Multi-Polar Capitalism
Author: Robert Guttmann
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030882470
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
History teaches us important lessons, provided we can discern its patterns. Multi-Polar Capitalism applies this insight to the crucial, yet often underappreciated issue of international monetary relations. When international monetary systems get first put into place successfully, such as the “classic” gold standard in 1879, Bretton Woods in 1945, or the dollar standard in 1982, they structure relations between the system’s centre and the rest of the world so that others can catch up to the leader. But this growth-promoting constellation, a vector for accelerating globalization, runs its course eventually amidst mounting overproduction conditions in key sectors and spreading financial instability. Such periods of global crisis, from the Great Depression of the 1930s to stagflation in the 1970s and creeping deflation during much of the 2010s, force restructuring and policy reforms until conditions are ripe for a renewed phase of sustained expansion. We are facing such a turning point now. As we are moving from a US-dominated world economy towards a multi-polar configuration, we will also see the longstanding dollar standard give way to a multi-currency system. Three currency blocs rooted in the dollar, euro, and yuan will be dominated respectively by the United States, the European Union, and China, each a power centre representing a distinct variant of capitalism. Their complex mix of competition and cooperation necessitates new “rules of the game” promoting the shared pursuit of global public goods, in particular the impending zero-carbon transition, lest we allow fragmentation and conflict shape this next chapter of our history. Multi-Polar Capitalism adds to a century of research and debate on long waves, those roughly half-century cycles first identified by the great Soviet economist Nikolai Kondratiev in the early 1920s, by highlighting the role of the international monetary system in this distinct boom-and-bust pattern.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030882470
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
History teaches us important lessons, provided we can discern its patterns. Multi-Polar Capitalism applies this insight to the crucial, yet often underappreciated issue of international monetary relations. When international monetary systems get first put into place successfully, such as the “classic” gold standard in 1879, Bretton Woods in 1945, or the dollar standard in 1982, they structure relations between the system’s centre and the rest of the world so that others can catch up to the leader. But this growth-promoting constellation, a vector for accelerating globalization, runs its course eventually amidst mounting overproduction conditions in key sectors and spreading financial instability. Such periods of global crisis, from the Great Depression of the 1930s to stagflation in the 1970s and creeping deflation during much of the 2010s, force restructuring and policy reforms until conditions are ripe for a renewed phase of sustained expansion. We are facing such a turning point now. As we are moving from a US-dominated world economy towards a multi-polar configuration, we will also see the longstanding dollar standard give way to a multi-currency system. Three currency blocs rooted in the dollar, euro, and yuan will be dominated respectively by the United States, the European Union, and China, each a power centre representing a distinct variant of capitalism. Their complex mix of competition and cooperation necessitates new “rules of the game” promoting the shared pursuit of global public goods, in particular the impending zero-carbon transition, lest we allow fragmentation and conflict shape this next chapter of our history. Multi-Polar Capitalism adds to a century of research and debate on long waves, those roughly half-century cycles first identified by the great Soviet economist Nikolai Kondratiev in the early 1920s, by highlighting the role of the international monetary system in this distinct boom-and-bust pattern.
Burn Out
Author: Dieter Helm
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030022799X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
An energy revolution is under way with far-reaching consequences for nations, companies, and the way we address climate change Low oil prices are sending shockwaves through the global economy, and longtime industry observer Dieter Helm explains how this and other shifts are the harbingers of a coming energy revolution and how the fossil fuel age will come to an end. Surveying recent surges in technological innovations, Helm’s provocative new book documents how the global move toward the internet-of-things will inexorably reduce the demand for oil, gas, and renewables—and prove more effective than current efforts to avert climate change. Oil companies and energy utilities must begin to adapt their existing business models or face future irrelevancy. Oil-exporting nations, particularly in the Middle East, will be negatively impacted, whereas the United States and European countries that are investing in new technologies may find themselves leaders in the geopolitical game. Timely and controversial, this book concludes by offering advice on what governments and businesses can and should do now to prepare for a radically different energy future.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030022799X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
An energy revolution is under way with far-reaching consequences for nations, companies, and the way we address climate change Low oil prices are sending shockwaves through the global economy, and longtime industry observer Dieter Helm explains how this and other shifts are the harbingers of a coming energy revolution and how the fossil fuel age will come to an end. Surveying recent surges in technological innovations, Helm’s provocative new book documents how the global move toward the internet-of-things will inexorably reduce the demand for oil, gas, and renewables—and prove more effective than current efforts to avert climate change. Oil companies and energy utilities must begin to adapt their existing business models or face future irrelevancy. Oil-exporting nations, particularly in the Middle East, will be negatively impacted, whereas the United States and European countries that are investing in new technologies may find themselves leaders in the geopolitical game. Timely and controversial, this book concludes by offering advice on what governments and businesses can and should do now to prepare for a radically different energy future.
Theoretical and Policy-Oriented Aspects of the External Debt Economics
Author: Chris Czerkawski
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642845495
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
The past approach to the international debt crisis has been traditionally based on conventional banking principle in which debt had to be paid back in fuH and in time. International lending was a function of the perceived credit standing of debtor country and the return on investment (ROI). If debtor country run into difficulties and had problems with service payments - it was generally assumed that the debt-related expenditures were mismanaged. With economic stability and firm financial rules - the debt crisis was supposed to disappear after application of appropriate adjustment measures. However in the world of inconsistent lending criteria greater uncertainty and increased volatility of expectations - the problem has continued to get worse. At the beginning of the 1990s a number of countries are more indebted than at any other time in the past. Until mid 1980s extern al debt economics has been rather a disembodied concept for most economists and business leaders. The main reason for this neglect of one of the most important macroeconomic categories was difficulty of distinguishing terminologically and methodologically the domestic determinants of national expenditures from the external ones. Then there were conceptual problems in distinguishing the functional determinants of macroeconomic liquidity from external and domestic determinants of macro-economic solvency. Moreover many studies of the debt crisis were one-sided. Usually debt was seen as a 'white-black' phenomenon with debtor countries accusing creditor countries for causing the crisis and vice versa.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642845495
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
The past approach to the international debt crisis has been traditionally based on conventional banking principle in which debt had to be paid back in fuH and in time. International lending was a function of the perceived credit standing of debtor country and the return on investment (ROI). If debtor country run into difficulties and had problems with service payments - it was generally assumed that the debt-related expenditures were mismanaged. With economic stability and firm financial rules - the debt crisis was supposed to disappear after application of appropriate adjustment measures. However in the world of inconsistent lending criteria greater uncertainty and increased volatility of expectations - the problem has continued to get worse. At the beginning of the 1990s a number of countries are more indebted than at any other time in the past. Until mid 1980s extern al debt economics has been rather a disembodied concept for most economists and business leaders. The main reason for this neglect of one of the most important macroeconomic categories was difficulty of distinguishing terminologically and methodologically the domestic determinants of national expenditures from the external ones. Then there were conceptual problems in distinguishing the functional determinants of macroeconomic liquidity from external and domestic determinants of macro-economic solvency. Moreover many studies of the debt crisis were one-sided. Usually debt was seen as a 'white-black' phenomenon with debtor countries accusing creditor countries for causing the crisis and vice versa.
Monetary Policy
Author: N. Gregory Mankiw
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226503100
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
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. Some of the papers in this volume evaluate a variety of policy rules based on monetary aggregates, nominal income, commodity prices, and other economic variables. Others analyze price behavior and inflation, particularly the short-run behavior of prices. Still others examine the monetary transmission mechanism—the channel through which the central bank's actions affect spending on goods and services—with a special focus on the reduction in bank lending that must accompany a reduction in reserves. This new research will be of special interest to central bankers and academic economists.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226503100
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
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. Some of the papers in this volume evaluate a variety of policy rules based on monetary aggregates, nominal income, commodity prices, and other economic variables. Others analyze price behavior and inflation, particularly the short-run behavior of prices. Still others examine the monetary transmission mechanism—the channel through which the central bank's actions affect spending on goods and services—with a special focus on the reduction in bank lending that must accompany a reduction in reserves. This new research will be of special interest to central bankers and academic economists.
The Future of the International Monetary System
Author: Omar F. Hamouda
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131549163X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
First Published in 1989. This a collection of sixteen essays that takes at look at the international monetary system and discusses if there is a need for change, improved coordination or concern due to instability. Topics explored include international debt, monetary reform, exchange stability, purchasing power, external impacts, the paper-exchange system, LDC debt, gold and commodity and looking to the future.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131549163X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
First Published in 1989. This a collection of sixteen essays that takes at look at the international monetary system and discusses if there is a need for change, improved coordination or concern due to instability. Topics explored include international debt, monetary reform, exchange stability, purchasing power, external impacts, the paper-exchange system, LDC debt, gold and commodity and looking to the future.
Equilibrium and Economic Theory
Author: Giovanni Alfredo Caravale
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134764375
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
This book considers the treatment of equilibrium by several of the most important schools of thought in economics, including: * neoclassical economics, * the neo-Ricardian economics, * Post-Keynesian economics - both those who follow Joan Robinson in denying any interpretative role to equilibrium in economic theorizing and those who use the notion of equilibrium, but re-defined from a Classical or Keynesian perspective.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134764375
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
This book considers the treatment of equilibrium by several of the most important schools of thought in economics, including: * neoclassical economics, * the neo-Ricardian economics, * Post-Keynesian economics - both those who follow Joan Robinson in denying any interpretative role to equilibrium in economic theorizing and those who use the notion of equilibrium, but re-defined from a Classical or Keynesian perspective.
The United States in the World Economy
Author: Martin Feldstein
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226241866
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
The United States in the World Economy offers the results of a conference organized by the National Bureau of Economics in 1987. The volume includes background papers prepared by nine academic economists, personal statements by individuals prominent in government and business, and summaries of the discussion that followed the presentations. Among the topics considered are foreign competition in Latin America and the Asian Pacific Rim, Third World debts, innovations in international financial markets, changing patterns of international investment, international capital flows, and international competition in goods, services, and agriculture. Prepared for a sophisticated but non-technical audience, these papers present complicated economic issues clearly, indicating the many ways in which the American economy influences and is influenced by economic events and conditions around the world.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226241866
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
The United States in the World Economy offers the results of a conference organized by the National Bureau of Economics in 1987. The volume includes background papers prepared by nine academic economists, personal statements by individuals prominent in government and business, and summaries of the discussion that followed the presentations. Among the topics considered are foreign competition in Latin America and the Asian Pacific Rim, Third World debts, innovations in international financial markets, changing patterns of international investment, international capital flows, and international competition in goods, services, and agriculture. Prepared for a sophisticated but non-technical audience, these papers present complicated economic issues clearly, indicating the many ways in which the American economy influences and is influenced by economic events and conditions around the world.