Two recent issues in the world economy have been the emergence of regional trade blocs and the increasing extent of international financial deregulation. Direction of trade data are used to look at the evolution of regional trade patterns in Europe, North America and East Asia, and saving...

Whether it is feasible to use various types of economic policy measures to reduce fluctuations in economic activity will depend on the source of the fluctuations. In particular, policy should respond in different ways to transitory disturbances to aggregate demand and more permanent shifts in...

An overlapping generation model of the effects of financial deregulation is developed. The results indicate that deregulation will produce an exogenous short-run fall in saving, some of which will be recouped over time, while increasing the sensitivity of saving to wealth, current income, real...