Editor's Summary

Editors' Summary

THIS ISSUE of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity contains articles, a report, and discussions presented at the fifty-sixth conference of the Brookings Panel on Economic Activity, which was held in Washington, D.C., on April 7 and 8, 1994. The first article examines how changing U.S. trade patterns, particularly trade with developing countries, have affected U.S. manufacturing. The second...

Editors' Summary

THE PROBLEMS OF INFLATION and recession continued to occupy the Brookings Panel on Economic Activity in its seventeenth conference, held in Washington on September 11-12, 1975. One or another aspect of these problems is investigated in each of the four articles and two reportsi n this issue of Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. The stock-market decline of 1973-74 imposed more than $500 bill...

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THIS ISSUE of Brookings Papers on Economic Activity contains articles and reports presented at the thirty-second conference of the Brookings Panel on Economic Activity, which was held in Washington, D.C., on September 17 and 18, 1981. Two articles focus on inflation, attempting both to illuminate our understanding of economic performance during the past fifteen years and to evaluate some altern...

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THIS ISSUE of Brookings Papers on Economic Activity contains papers and discussions presented at the forty-first conference of the Brookings Panel on Economic Activity, which was held in Washington, D.C., on April 3 and 4, 1986. Three major articles cover, respectively, the role of liquidity constraints in tax policy analysis, the perplexing relationship between short-term and long-term interes...

Editors' Summary