During the 1980s, U.S. commercial banks faced increased competition in their lending activity from large finance companies. This article analyzes the differential performance of banks and finance companies in various segments of the consumer and business credit markets. In particular, it...

This article reviews recent work comparing properties of international business cycles with those of dynamic general equilibrium models. Two discrepancies between theory and data are described. One concerns the correlation across countries of fluctuations in consumption, output, and...

The paper considers a model in which private foreign investors make direct long-lived capital investments in a small developing country that is subject to stochastic shocks to production. Depending upon the preferences of the host country, we find that expropriation can occur because of either...

Using quarterly data for the United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom, this article investigates the relationship between changes in fundamental economic conditions and the international reactions of stock and bond markets. The author assesses the degree to which the transmission of...

Remarks on Derivatives: Practices and Principles, a report by the Global Derivatives Study Group of the Group of Thirty, presented at the Group of Thirty Meeting, Washington, D.C., September 27, 1993.