Following the severe financial crises of the 1990s, identifying and assessing financial sector vulnerabilities has become a key priority of the international community. The costly disruptions in global markets underscored the need to establish a set of monitorable variables for evaluating...

This paper examines the recent difficulties experienced in U.S. agriculture, and discusses the role played by government policies, in particular reviewing recent developments in those policies. Studies of the extent and costs of agricultural protection in the United States and other major...

This paper analyzes several issues regarding the measurement of saving and concludes that the observed declines in national, private, and personal saving rates in the United States cannot be attributed to measurement problems. It then examines several factors that seem to have been behind the...