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Business Economics articles from January 2001
Professional journal of the National Association of Business Economists covering topics such as macro and microeconomics, monetary and fiscal policy, business forecasting, international economics, and deregulation.
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Business Economics archives from January 2001
FROM THE EDITOR.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
January 1, 2001... Not too many years ago, it seemed that the outlook for every year was popularly characterized by "unprecedented and growing uncertainty." This concern with uncertainty seemed to die out in the late 1990s and for most of 2000, but as we enter...
The Challenges of Affluence.(speech by Alice Rivlin to National Association for)(Business Economics)(Transcript)
January 1, 2001... IN ADDITION TO GOOD MACROECONOMIC POLICY, IT IS IMPORTANT TO CREATE OPPORTUNITIES FOR THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN LEFT BEHIND.
Over the past decade, effective monetary and fiscal policy--plus a long-term trend of deregulation and opening up the...
Forecasting Inflation and Growth: Do Private Forecasts Match Those of Policymakers?
January 1, 2001... THE BLUE CHIP CONSENSUS FORECAST IS A GOOD MEASURE OF THE OUTLOOK AS SEEN BY FED POLICYMAKERS.
FOMC projections are important because they provide information for evaluating current monetary policy intentions and because they indicate what...
Anticipating Monetary Policy with the Federal Reserve's Beige Book: Re-specifying the Taylor Rule.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... IMPROVING THE USEFULNESS OF THE TAYLOR RULE FOR BUSINESS ECONOMISTS.
A re-specification of the popular Taylor Rule for monetary policy shows that both manufacturing capacity utilization and an index created from the Beige Book contribute...
Reforming Social Security in the US.: An International Perspective.
January 1, 2001... LESSONS FROM ABROAD CAN HELP THE U.S. GET IT RIGHT.
Social security reform (or its absence) will have important impacts throughout the U.S. economy, including business. This paper describes the multi-pillar social security reform strategy...
The Lessons from Microsoft.
January 1, 2001... MICROSOFT'S BEHAVIOR TEACHES ECONOMISTS A LOT ABOUT STRATEGIC BEHAVIOR IN A RAPIDLY CHANGING ENVIRONMENT.
This paper examines the lessons economists can draw from the Microsoft litigation. The paper explains that the most interesting...
Tomorrow's Electric Distribution Companies.
January 1, 2001... CRUCIAL STRATEGIC DECISIONS WILL AFFECT THE ENTIRE U.S. ECONOMY.
The electric industry has been dominated by vertically integrated utilities for most of its history. These utilities are being restructured as the electric industry is being...
Has Securitization Increased Risk to the Financial System?
January 1, 2001... SECURITIZATION HAS STRENGTHENED THE SYSTEM OVERALL, BUT SOURCES OF RISK REMAIN WHEN PRACTICE DEPARTS FROM THE IDEAL REFLECTED IN THE ACCOUNTING TREATMENT
The burgeoning volume of securitizations has generated concerns over risks to the...
RESULTS OF THE READERS' SURVEY ON BUSINESS ECONOMICS.
January 1, 2001... The April issue of Business Economics included a survey form, whose introduction declared: "The purpose of this survey is to determine what you, the readers of Business Economics, would like to have in your journal and how it should be...
Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource.(Review)
January 1, 2001... By Marq de Villiers. New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin 2000. Pp. 352. $26.00 hardcover.
Many readers of Business Economics, while recognizing that water is essential for survival, take this resource for granted. This is because we live where...
Taxing Ourselves: A Citizen's Guide to the Great Debate over Tax Reform.(Review)
January 1, 2001... By Joel Slemrod and Jon Bakija. Second Edition. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. 2000. Pp. 348. $29.95 hardcover.
For most people (including, I suspect, most economists), a book or article on taxes is about as entertaining as a trip to the...
Financial Crises in Emerging Markets: An Essay on Financial Globalization and Fragility.
January 1, 2001... By Alexandre Lamfalussy. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 2000. Pp. 220. $25.00 hardcover.
This book, is "must reading" for business economists, investment professionals, and anyone concerned with the interaction between financial...
Transition and Economics: Politics, Markets and Firms.
January 1, 2001... By Gerard Roland. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 2000. 368 Pp. $45.00 hardcover.
Transition and Economics is an outstanding advanced-undergraduate to graduate-level introduction to the rapidly growing field of Transition Economics. This new...