Business Economics articles from July 2005

Business Economics archives from July 2005

From the editor.(economic development)(Editorial)
July 1, 2005... The policy of Business Economics is to publish articles as they come, either as refereed submissions or as papers developed from the NABE Annual Meeting and the Policy Conference. The result is that one does not know what an issue will look...

Economic perspectives on health information technology: aggressive adoption will reduce costs and improve quality in health care.
July 1, 2005... It seems paradoxical that health care spending and examples of inferior health care have been rising rapidly at the same time. An important factor is the slow pace at which the health care system has adopted information technology (IT). This...

The labor market and long-term health care: a perspective on nursing aides; Will the "invisible hand" provide for direct-care needs?
July 1, 2005... The aging of the baby boom generation underlies anticipated rapid growth in jobs for nurses and support personnel for longer-term care. Research on help-wanted advertising shows strong recruiting activity for nurses. However, for nursing aides...

The "output gap" and excess labor employment: a look at the evidence from a small firm perspective.
July 1, 2005... The debate surrounding the current status of monetary policy and inflation has appealed to the existence of an output gap that will prevent the resurgence of substantial inflation. This paper presents evidence that the expansion in the late...

A view on the United States from Europe: a bit darker than the U.S. mainstream.
July 1, 2005... The recent behaviour of the U.S. economy poses two conundrums: short-term interest rates are much lower than would normally be expected, and the yield curve is flat. These suggest to many European observers that U.S. economic prospects are not...

It's all about wealth: anomalies in the measurement of savings and growing wealth suggest that measured savings rates are not as big a problem as they appear to be.
July 1, 2005... The saving rate and amount of consumer savings has taken on heightened importance in both the cyclical and secular settings. Does the current low consumer saving rate imply that spending must grow less than income in coming months, therefore...

The benefits of free trade to U.S. consumers: quantitative confirmation of theoretical expectation.
July 1, 2005... Much of the literature concerning trade liberalization focuses on estimating the effect of increased trade on aggregate economic indicators, such as the growth in GDP per capita. Although there is a general recognition that trade benefits...

BEA's regional economic accounts program: recent and planned improvements.(Bureau of Economic Analysis )
July 1, 2005... The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) of the Department of Commerce produces national, regional, industry, and international economic accounts that present essential information on such key issues as economic growth, regional economic...

McCoy Scott & Company.(ECONOMICS AT WORK)
July 1, 2005... McCoy Scott & Company is a consulting company staffed with business economists but focused on answering very practical business questions. We see ourselves as a strategic management resource growing out of the science of applied economics that...

Chairman of the Fed: William McChesney Martin Jr. and the Creation of the American Financial System.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Chairman of the Fed: William McChesney Martin Jr. and the Creation of the American Financial System. By Robert P. Bremner. 2004. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Pp 374, $38.00, hardcover. William McChesney Martin (1906-98) served...

Restoring Fiscal Sanity, 2005: Meeting the Long Run Challenge.(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Restoring Fiscal Sanity, 2005: Meeting the Long Run Challenge By Alice M. Rivlin and Isabel Sawhill, eds. 2005. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press. Pp 146, $16.95, paperback. In just three years, the first of the baby boomers...