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  Wrong policies pulling eurozone economies apart

  Copyright 2003 The Financial Times Limited (London, England) Monday, September 8, 2003; Financial Times; USA Edition; Letters to the Editor Sir, Ed Crooks and Tony Major (Comment & Analysis, September 1) are right to question the ability of the eurozone economy to catch up with the US economy. Indeed, they are right to argue that the eurozone […]
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  Policy Notes No. 6

  Is International Growth the Way Out of US Current Account Deficits?

  The 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 5 percent of GDP. This steady deterioration has been greeted with an increasing amount of concern (U.S Trade Deficit Review Commission 2000; Brookings Papers 2001; […]
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  Policy Notes No. 5

  Deflation Worries

  For 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, policymakers from Euroland to Japan to America all seem to recognize the threat that falling prices pose to markets. Given the singleminded pursuit of deflationary […]
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  Working Paper No. 391

  Aggregate Demand, Conflict, and Capacity in the Inflationary Process

  The 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 side of the economy (and in the labor market in particular). Further, the economy will tend to converge to (or oscillate around) that level of […]
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  Working Paper No. 390

  Savings of Entrepreneurs

  Previous 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 change. Furthermore, endogeneity problems in the measurement of the interaction between saving rates and entrepreneurship are not well addressed.In this paper, by reexamining the relationship […]
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  Working Paper No. 389

  Do Workers with Low Lifetime Earnings Really Have Low Earnings Every Year?

  When 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 lifetime earnings have low earnings in each year during a normal working career. The basic research question is why do some workers have low lifetime […]
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  Working Paper No. 388

  Inflation Targeting

  Since 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 policy. We suggest that IT is a major policy prescription closely associated with the New Consensus Macroeconomics (NCM). Focusing mainly on the IT aspects of […]
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  Working Paper No. 387

  Measures of the Real GDP of US Trading Partners

  This 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 in its "broad exchange rate" indexes. These new measures have some important advantages. First, they allow the construction of various income aggregates and sub-aggregates, which […]
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  Working Paper No. 386

  Household Wealth, Public Consumption, and Economic Well-Being in the United States

  *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 flawed because they ignore several crucial determinants of well-being. We examine two such determinants–household wealth and public consumption–in the context of the United States. Our […]
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  Report No. 3

  Report September 2003

  The slowdown in economic growth and rising unemployment in the euro area have revealed serious fault lines in the stability and growth pact governing the zone’s macroeconomic policies. In an editorial, Philip Arestis and Malcolm Sawyer state that the pact threatens to become an “instability and no growth pact,” with the thrust of fiscal and […]
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  Only fiscal activism has the power to counter recession, because central banks are impotent

  Copyright 2003 The Financial Times Limited (London, England) Friday, August 29, 2003; Financial Times; USA Edition; Letters to the Editor Sir, Martin Feldstein (“Fiscal activism would speed a recovery,” August 26) is clearly correct to argue that fiscal activism should be used under current economic circumstances. He is, though, incorrect to suggest that monetary policy […]
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  Europe’s imposed stability, now it has to create growth

  The slowdown in economic growth and rising unemployment in the euro area, with major economies slipping into recession, have revealed serious faultlines in the stability and growth pact governing the euro area’s macroeconomic policies. The pact dictates that budget deficits must not exceed 3% of GDP, with a requirement budgets are in balance or surplus […]