macro economy. Using a panel of 131 monthly macroeconomic time series for the sample 1964:1-2007:12, we estimate 8 static …

This paper considers the role of policy in an AI-intensive economy (interpreting AI broadly). It emphasizes the speed …

to be the peak capitalist economy in the new information economy. This paper develops criterion for judging peak status … workers, continued full employment will greatly strengthen the case for the US as peak economy. But with anything less than … full employment the US economy will lose its luster. Even if this occurs, however, the US record in employing women and …

watch property rights were reallocated through land laws, and Mexico's economy became much more closely tied to the United …

The global economy has been buffeted by several unprecedented economic events during the past 35 years. We survey the … during this time, from a low income high-inflation developing economy in the 1970s, to a medium to high income stable …- inflation advanced economy in the 2000s, while increasingly integrated into the world economy. The extraordinary events surveyed …

growth or contraction of the economy. What mattered was not simply growth at the time of the election but cumulative growth …

during the period of Japan's bubble economy and subsequent stagnation. The yen experienced epic gyrations over that period … the price of oil. Since the mid-1990s, the yen's real exchange rate has generally followed a depreciating trend and Japan …

this line of research to Asia. Japan imposed its system of well-defined property rights in land on some of its Asian … colonies, including Korea, Taiwan and Palau. In 1939 Japan began to survey and register private land in its island colonies, an … land registration obsolete. Third, considering all of Japan's colonies, we use the presence or absence of a land survey as …

Japan's successful industrialization in the late 19th and early 20th century largely exhausted its then abundant … natural resources. Rather than exemplifying rapid development in the absence of natural resources, Japan shows how laissez … resources curse that undermined its prior state-led industrialization strategy. Japan's post-WWII reconstruction relied little …