Books: Fall, 2003
Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 17
MIT Press
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Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 17, edited by James M. Poterba, is available from the MIT Press for $25.00 in paperback and $58.00 clothbound. This NBER series presents current NBER research in the areas of taxation and government spending. Volume 17 continues the series' tradition of addressing topics that are of current relevance as well as longer-range concerns. The topics covered include the fiscal implications of the No Child Left Behind Act, the 2001 Tax Rebate, and the tax burdens of multinational corporations.
Poterba directs the NBER's Program on Public Economics and is the Mitsui Professor of Economics and the Associate Head of the Economics Department at MIT.
NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2002
MIT Press
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NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2002, edited by Mark Gertler and Kenneth S. Rogoff, is available from the MIT Press for $32.00 in paperback and $65.00 clothbound. The NBER Macroeconomics Annual presents, extends, and applies pioneering work in macroeconomics and stimulates work by macroeconomists on important policy issues. Each paper in the Annual is followed by comments and discussion.
This volume includes papers on: rules versus discretion in monetary policy; productivity growth in the current century; an examination of whether the business cycle has changed; and a discussion of optimal currency areas.
Gertler and Rogoff are NBER Research Associates in the Programs on Monetary Economics and International Finance and Macroeconomics, respectively. Gertler is a professor of economics at New York University; Rogoff is a professor of economics at Harvard University.
Structural Impediments to Growth in Japan
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Structural Impediments to Growth in Japan, edited by Magnus Blomström, Jennifer Corbett, Fumio Hayashi, and Anil K Kashyap, is available this fall from the University of Chicago Press for $70.00.
As the much-lauded "miracle" of Japan's stunning economic growth has given way to economic stagnation, analysts have focused their attention on the underlying systems that present obstacles to continued success. In a first book-length academic treatment of this important issue, a team of notable editors and contributors gathers to present nine papers offering a comprehensive assessment of those economic difficulties. The topics covered range from financial problems to corporate issues to issues in government policy. The result is an invaluable collection of information on the key challenges facing continued economic growth.
All of the volume's editors are members of the NBER's Japan Project. Blomström is a professor at the European Institute of Japanese Studies and the Stockholm School of Economics. Corbett is a reader at the University of Oxford and professor at Australian National University. Hayashi is a professor in the faculty of economics at the University of Tokyo. Kashyap is the Edward Eagle Brown Professor of Economics and Finance in the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago.
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