Brookings Papers on Economic Activity

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The Role of Models and Probabilities in the Monetary Policy Process pp. 1-62: Christopher Sims
Robust Monetary Policy Rules with Unknown Natural Rates pp. 63-146: Athanasios Orphanides and John C. Williams
Current Account Deficits in the Euro Area: The End of the Feldstein Horioka Puzzle? pp. 147-210: Olivier Blanchard and Francesco Giavazzi
Productivity Growth and the New Economy pp. 211-265: William D. Nordhaus

Catching Up with the Leaders: The Irish Hare pp. 1-78: Patrick Honohan and Brendan Walsh
Current Unemployment, Historically Contemplated pp. 79-136: Chinhui Juhn, Kevin M. Murphy and Robert Topel
Intangible Assets: How the Interaction of Computers and Organizational Structure Affects Stock Market Valuations pp. 137-198: Erik Brynjolfsson, Loren Hitt and Shinkyu Yang
Puzzles About the American Economy in the Current Recession and Recovery pp. 199-228: William D. Nordhaus
First World Governments and Third World Debt: A Bankruptcy Court for Sovereign Lending? pp. 229-256: Jeremy Bulow
Resolving the Debt Crisis of Low-Income Countries pp. 257-286: Jeffrey D. Sachs
Sovereigns in Distress: Do They Need Bankruptcy? pp. 287-320: Michelle White
Do We Meed a New Bankruptcy Regime? pp. 321-333: Nouriel Roubini
How Would a New Bankruptcy Regime Help? pp. 334-340: Hal S. Scott
Debt Restructuring: Evolution or Revolution? pp. 341-349: Edwin M. Truman

From Reunification to Economic Integration: Productivity and the Labor Market in Eastern Germany pp. 1-92: Michael Christopher Burda and Jennifer Hunt
The Great Recession: Lessons for Macroeconomic Policy from Japan pp. 93-186: Kenneth N. Kuttner and Adam S. Posen
Why Doesn't the United States Have a European-Style Welfare State? pp. 187-278: Alberto Alesina, Edward Glaeser and Bruce Sacerdote
The Consumption Risk of the Stock Market pp. 279-348: Jonathan A. Parker

Does Immigration Grease the Wheels of the Labor Market? pp. 69-134: George J. Borjas
The Long and Large Decline in U.S. Output Volatility pp. 135-174: Olivier Blanchard and John Simon
The Predictive Power of the Index of Consumer Sentiment pp. 175-216: E. Philip Howrey
Is the U.S. Current Account Deficit Sustainable? Will It Be Sustained? pp. 217-226: Richard N. Cooper
The International Dollar Standard and the Sustainability of the U.S. Current Account Deficit pp. 227-241: Ronald I. McKinnon
A Portfolio View of the U.S. Current Account Deficit pp. 241-258: Jaume Ventura

Social Security Reform and National Saving in an Era of Budget Surpluses pp. 1-72: Douglas Elmendorf and Jeffrey B. Liebman
E-Capital: The Link between the Stock Market and the Labor Market in the 1990s pp. 73-118: Robert E. Hall
Real Estate and Macroeconomy pp. 119-162: Karl E. Case
The Economic Consequences of Disappearing Government Debt pp. 163-220: Vincent Reinhart and Brian Sack
Financial Market Implications of the Federal Debt Paydown pp. 221-252: Michael J. Flemming
Tax Smoothing Implications of the Federal Debt Paydown pp. 253-302: George Hall and Stefan Krieger
Local Corruption and Global Capital Flows pp. 303-354: Shang-Jin Wei

Near-Rational Wage and Price Setting and the Long-Run Phillips Curve pp. 1-60: George A. Akerlof, William T. Dickens and George L. Perry
The Stock Market and Investment in the New Economy: Some Tangible Facts and Intangible Fictions pp. 61-124: Stephen R. Bond and Jason G. Cummins
Raising the Speed Limit: U.S. Economic Growth in the Information Age pp. 125-236: Dale W. Jorgenson and Kevin Stiroh
Roots of the Recent Recoveries: Labor Reforms or Private Sector Forces? pp. 237-311: Jean-Paul Fitoussi, David Jestaz, Edmund S. Phelps and Gylfi Zoega

Evidence on the High-Income Laffer Curve from Six Decades of Tax Reform pp. 1-64: Austan Goolsbee
The Adequacy of Retirement Saving pp. 65-188: Eric M. Engen, William G. Gale and Cori R. Uccello
Aggregate demand and Long-Term Unemployment pp. 189-252: Laurence Ball
Financial Crises in the 1890s and the 1990s: Must History Repeat pp. 253-294: J. Bradford Delong
Stability, Asymmetry, and Discontinuity: The Launch of European Monetary Union pp. 295-372: Giancarlo Corsetti and Paolo A. Pesenti

The High-Pressure U.S. Labor Market of the 1990s pp. 1-88: Lawrence F. Katz and Alan B. Krueger
Should Capital Controls be Banished? pp. 89-142: Richard N. Cooper
Capital Flows to Developing Economies: Implications for Saving and Investment pp. 143-180: Barry P. Bosworth and Susan M. Collins
Perspectives on the Household Saving Rate pp. 181-224: William G. Gale and John Sabelhaus
Should We Fear Deflation? pp. 225-252: J. Bradford DeLong

Economic Crises: Evidence and Insights from East Asia pp. 1-136: Jason Furman and Joseph Stiglitz
It's Baaack: Japan's Slump and the Return of the Liquidity Trap pp. 137-206: Paul R. Krugman
Geography, Demography, and Economic Growth in Africa pp. 207-296: David E. Bloom and Jeffrey D. Sachs
Foundations of the Goldilocks Economy: Supply Shocks and the Time-Varying NAIRU pp. 297-346: Robert J. Gordon
Japan's Financial Problems pp. 347-385: Edward J. Lincoln

The East Asian Financial Crisis: Diagnosis, Remedies, Prospects pp. 1-90: Steven Radelet and Jeffrey D. Sachs
Self-Control and Saving for Retirement pp. 91-196: David Laibson, Andrea Repetto and Jeremy Tobacman
The Political Economy of Fiscal Adjustments pp. 197-266: Alberto Alesina, Roberto Perotti and Jose Tavares
The Wealth Dynamics of American Families, 1984-94 pp. 267-338: Erik Hurst, Ming Ching Luoh and Frank P. Stafford
Hours Reductions as Work-Sharing pp. 339-381: Jennifer Hunt