NBER Reporter articles from March 1990

NBER Reporter archives from March 1990

Financial markets and monetary economics.
March 22, 1990... Financial Markets and Monetary Economics The October 1987 stock market crash, more than any other single event within recent years, has stimulated an extraordinary profusion of research on securities pricing by members of the NBER's Program...

Political economy.
March 22, 1990... Political Economy Economists usually look at how policy should be conducted in a world free of institutions in which a benevolent social planner maximizes society's welfare. Such normative models are essential for understanding the benchmark...

First quarter 1990. (economic outlook survey)
March 22, 1990... First Quarter 1990 According to the March survey of 14 professional forecasters taken by the NBER and the American Statistical Association, real GNP will grow 1.7 percent this year. Inflation, as measured by the rise in consumer prices, will...

Tax Policy and the Economy, vol. 4.
March 22, 1990... Tax Policy, Volume 4 Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 4, edited by Lawrence H. Summers, is now available. The cloth volume is priced at $26.95; the paperback is $13.95. This volume presents the papers and discussions of the NBER's...

The Measurement of Durable Goods Prices.
March 22, 1990... The Measurement of Durable Goods Prices In this volume, Gordon documents the need for a dramatic improvement in the indexes of economic activity commonly used to describe and study the economy. He argues that in government indexes, price...

Taxation in the Global Economy.
March 22, 1990... Taxation in the Global Economy Taxation in the Global Economy, edited by Assaf Razin and Joel B. Slemrod, will be available from the University of Chicago Press in May. The price is $58. This volume is based on a February 1989 conference...

Developing Country Debt and Economic Performance, vol. 2, Country Studies - Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Mexico.
March 22, 1990... Volume II in Developing Country Debt Series This volume contains comprehensive case studies of four debtor countries with very different economies. Mexico is an oil exporter with significant manufactured exports; Argentina and Brazil import...