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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition articles from September 2003
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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition archives from September 2003
Editors' summary.
September 22, 2003... THE BROOKINGS PANEL ON Economic Activity held its seventy-sixth conference in Washington, D.C., on September 4 and 5, 2003. This issue of Brookings Papers on Economic Activity includes the papers and discussions presented at the conference. The...
Liberalization, growth, and financial crises: lessons from Mexico and the developing world.
September 22, 2003... BY NOW THERE is widespread agreement that trade liberalization enhances growth. No such agreement exists, however, on the growth-enhancing effects of financial liberalization, in large part because it is associated with risky capital flows,...
The empirics of growth: an update.
September 22, 2003... THE PAST DECADE HAS seen an explosion of empirical research on economic growth and its determinants, yet many of the central issues of interest remain unresolved. For instance, no consensus has emerged about the relative contributions of...
Exploding productivity growth: context, causes, and implications.
September 22, 2003... WILL POTENTIAL OUTPUT GROW in the future at a 4 percent annual rate, as several of the more optimistic business economists assume, or at the pathetic 1.8 percent annual rate assumed into the distant future by the trustees of the Social Security...
Is there a bubble in the housing market?
September 22, 2003... THE POPULAR PRESS is full of speculation that the United States, as well as other countries, is in a "housing bubble" that is about to burst. Barrons, Money magazine, and The Economist have all run recent feature stories about the irrational...