Accelerated Japanese monetary expansion failed to appreciably influence imports of US crops despite notable increases m the nominal yen/dollar exchange rate, according to COMGEM, a US macroeconomic model that incorporates non-U S macroeconomic linkages and an Armington model of foreign demands...

Periodically, events occur in the domestic and global economies that remind agricultural economists that macroeconomics matter. This was evident in the early 1980s when the Federal Reserve responded to double-digit inflation by driving interest rates to post–World War II period highs. The...