Progress out of Poverty Index and a housing index), in Honduras and Peru. The methods we examine perform similarly to one …

This paper examines issues in the current debate over coordination between fiscal and monetary policies. Section I1 … uses the traditional targets-instruments approach to assess the potential gains from greater coordination. Since greater … coordination is often equated with looser money and tighter fiscal policy, two econometric models of the economy are used to …

coordination costs fell during this period. We then propose a "hierarchical production function" in which output is the product of … coordination costs fell broadly and steadily during this period, so that hiring one's first associate leveraged a partner's skill …

need for policy coordination: the specific choice of monetary policy limits the set of fiscal policies consistent with …

expect more coordination outside of their local areas are more responsive to the effects of time zones …

Global games of regime change -- that is, coordination games of incomplete information in which a status quo is …

transparency is optimal. This is because more transparency facilitates more effective coordination, which is valuable from a social … ambiguity becomes optimal if there is a high risk that more transparency will lead to coordination failures …