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Policy Note No. 7December 01, 2003
The Future of the Dollar
AbstractThe big question is whether the dollar—the world’s reserve currency—can survive a steep fall in its value without the active support of the major central banks. Can the United States…more
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Working Paper No. 397December 01, 2003
Financial Globalization and Regulation
AbstractThis paper attempts to define financial globalization as a process whereby financial markets internationally are integrated so closely that they can be considered as a single market. The process, viewed…more
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Working Paper No. 393November 01, 2003
A Rolling Tide
AbstractFrom 1989 to 2001, wealth in real terms increased overall among families in the United States. But characterizing distributional changes is much more complex; it depends on the specific questions…more
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Public Policy Brief No. 74November 01, 2003
Understanding Deflation
AbstractMost recent discussions of deflation seem to overlook the main dangers posed by a deflationary economy and appear to offer superficial solutions. In this brief, the authors argue that, barring…more
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Working Paper No. 396November 01, 2003
The Evolution of Wealth Inequality in Canada
AbstractUsing data from the Assets and Debts Survey of 1984 and the Survey of Financial Security of 1999, the authors document the evolution of wealth inequality in Canada between 1984…more
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Working Paper No. 395November 01, 2003
On Household Wealth Trends in Sweden over the 1990s
AbstractInfluenced by major tax reform in the early 1990s and by the exceptional boom in the stock market at the end of that decade, overall wealth in Swedish households increased….more
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Working Paper No. 394November 01, 2003
Wealth Transfer Taxation
AbstractThe purpose of this paper is to survey the theoretical literature on wealth transfer taxation. The focus is normative: we are looking at the design of an optimal tax structure…more
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Working Paper No. 392October 01, 2003
Understanding Deflation
AbstractDeflation can be defined as a falling general price level utilizing one of the common price indices.the consumer price index; the GDP deflator or other, narrower indices as the wholesale…more
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Strategic AnalysisOctober 01, 2003
Deficits, Debts, and Growth
AbstractThese are fast-moving times. Two years ago, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO, 2001) projected a federal budget surplus of $172 billion for fiscal year 2003. Within a year, the projected…more
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Policy Note No. 6September 03, 2003
Is International Growth the Way Out of US Current Account Deficits?
AbstractThe current account deficit of the United States has been growing steadily as a share of GDP for more than a decade. It is now at an all-time high, over…more
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Policy Note No. 5September 02, 2003
Deflation Worries
AbstractFor the first time since the 1930s, many worry that the world’s economy faces the prospect of deflation—accompanied by massive job losses—on a global scale. In a rather hopeful sign,…more
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Working Paper No. 391September 01, 2003
Aggregate Demand, Conflict, and Capacity in the Inflationary Process
AbstractThe dominant view relating to unemployment and inflation is that inflation will be constant at a level of unemployment (the nonaccelerating inflation rate of unemployment, NAIRU) determined on the supply…more
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Working Paper No. 390September 01, 2003
Savings of Entrepreneurs
AbstractPrevious work on entrepreneurship and wealth has documented that entrepreneurial households are wealthier and have higher wealth mobility. However, the literature has not paid attention to the components of wealth…more
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Working Paper No. 389September 01, 2003
Do Workers with Low Lifetime Earnings Really Have Low Earnings Every Year?
AbstractWhen it comes to retirement income policy, there is a general perception that workers have full 40-year working careers before retiring. Further, it is generally assumed that workers with low…more
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Working Paper No. 388September 01, 2003
Inflation Targeting
AbstractSince the early 1990s, a number of countries have adopted Inflation Targeting (IT) in an effort to reduce inflation. Most literature has praised IT as a superior framework of monetary…more
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Working Paper No. 387September 01, 2003
Measures of the Real GDP of US Trading Partners
AbstractThis paper provides the details of the construction of new quarterly measures of the real GDPs of the 36 trading partners that are taken into consideration by the Federal Reserve…more
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Working Paper No. 386September 01, 2003
Household Wealth, Public Consumption, and Economic Well-Being in the United States
Abstract*Preliminary draft. Please do not quote or cite without permission. Standard official measures of economic well-being are based on money income. The general consensus is that such measures are seriously…more
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Policy Note No. 4August 20, 2003
Pushing Germany Off the Cliff Edge
AbstractGermany’s fiscal crisis cannot be attributed to unification per se; it arose as a consequence of ill-guided macroeconomic policies pursued in response to that event. Many structural problems that popped…more
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Public Policy Brief No. 73August 03, 2003
Asset and Debt Deflation in the United States
AbstractIn an asset and debt deflation, the process of reducing debt by saving and curtailing spending takes a long time, say authors Philip Arestis and Elias Karakitsos. Current imbalances and…more
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Public Policy Brief No. 72August 02, 2003
What Is the American Model Really About?
AbstractThe “American Model” serves as a point of reference in discussions of economic policy around the world, especially in Europe. Many claim that the American version of the free market…more
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Working Paper No. 385July 01, 2003
Macroeconomic Policies of the Economic Monetary Union
AbstractThis paper presents two issues: first, an effort to decipher the theoretical and policy framework of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU); and second, an argument that the challenges to…more
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Working Paper No. 384July 01, 2003
Minsky’s Acceleration Channel and the Role of Money
AbstractUsing Minsky (1986), this paper attempts to answer two questions: (1) How does policy affect real and nominal variables? and (2) How should monetary policy be conducted so as to…more
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Working Paper No. 383July 01, 2003
Financial Sector Reforms in Developing Countries with Special Reference to Egypt
AbstractFinancial reforms, and financial liberalization in particular, have been at the root of many recent cases of financial and banking crises. In several countries financial reforms allowed real interest rates…more
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Policy Note No. 3June 01, 2003
Caring for a Large Geriatric Generation
AbstractThe time has more than come to begin planning seriously for the aging of the baby-boom generation. The need for planning goes beyond concerns about the solvency of Social Security…more
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