Infrastructure Provision and Macroeconomic Performance

Macroeconomic Policy and Performance

Currency Crises and Macroeconomic Performance

Economic Group Reserve Bank of Australia We thank colleagues in Economic Research Department and Financial System Group, especially Adam Cagliarini and David Gruen, for their suggestions. Aart Kraay generously provided some of the data used in Section 2. Any errors are ours and the opinions expressed here should not be attributed to the Reserve Bank of Australia.

Institutional coherence and macroeconomic performance

Peter Hall and David Soskice suggest that institutional coherence is conducive to successful macroeconomic outcomes. Countries with corporate governance arrangements, industrial relations systems and other institutions that are congruent either with those of a coordinated market economy or with those of a liberal market economy are expected to perform better, while nations with less coherent in...

1 Globalisation and macroeconomic performance

The term ‘globalisation’ is generally accepted to refer to the process of steadily increasing interdependence of national economies via trade, production and financial market linkages. While this process has been ongoing for many centuries, few would doubt that it has accelerated and intensified in the last decades. This acceleration is evidenced as much by the strong synchronicity in the rapid...

GEMSS: grid-infrastructure for medical service provision.

OBJECTIVES The European GEMSS Project is concerned with the creation of medical Grid service prototypes and their evaluation in a secure service-oriented infrastructure for distributed on demand/supercomputing. Key aspects of the GEMSS Grid middleware include negotiable QoS support for time-critical service provision, flexible support for business models, and security at all levels in order to ...