United States: Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund

No 2000/112, IMF Staff Country Reports from International Monetary Fund

Abstract: This Selected Issues paper focuses on the adoption of new technology and globalization in the United States of America, and assesses the change in the productivity growth and revised estimates, the developments in the labor market, equity prices, and the technology boom. The paper analyzes how the monetary policy influences economic conditions in emergency markets; reviews the developments in financial consolidation; discusses the key provisions contained in the Gramm-Leach-Bliley (GLB) Act, the implications of the GLB Act for financial consolidation, and regulatory and supervisory practices.

Keywords: ISCR; CR; employment growth; price-earnings ratio; earnings; H-P filter; equity-risk premium; productivity growth; production function approach; labor force growth; Total factor productivity; Labor productivity; Productivity; Labor force; Wages; North America; Global; Northern Europe; East Asia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 70
Date: 2000-09-06
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