Over the past decade and a half Axel Leijonhufvud has written extensively on monetary regimes and their connection to nominal and real economic performance. Monetary regimes are important because they determine whether countries follow stable or unstable monetary policies and hence have stable...

Monetary policy independence under flexible exchange rates : the Federal Reserve and monetary policy in Latin America : is there policy "spillover"? / Sebastian Edwards -- The international impact of the Fed when the United States is a banker to the world / David Beckworth and Christopher Crowe...

Disability, work and retirement -- New age thinking: alternative ways of measuring age, their relationship to labor force participation, government policies, and GDP / John B. Shoven -- Comment / Erzo F. P. Luttmer -- Work disability: the effects of demography, health, and disability insurance /...