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...

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...

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...

Structural vector autoregressions are used to distinguish between transitory (AD) disturbances to output and permanent (AS) disturbances. The results indicate that the two disturbances are of roughly equal importance in explaining fluctuations in growth and inflation across a wide range of OECD...