Remarks of Dr. Egan at Detroit Conference.

Introductory Remarks for the Press Conference

Remarks on Dr. Lyons' "Treatise on Relapsing or Famine Fever."

And again?" In the begining of October, prices for the. first time showed symptoms of retrograding, and as the produce of the harvest became available to fall, the plentiful rains gave promise of a good spring crop, there was ample occupation for all classes of tho community, and prospects were everywhere brightening, when tho country was called upon to undergo its last aud, perhaps, its severe...

Rethinking Detroit∗†

We study the urban structure of the City of Detroit. Following several decades of decline, the city’s current urban structure is clearly not optimal for its size, with a business district immediately surrounded by a ring of largely vacant neighborhoods. We propose a model with residential externalities that features multiple equilibria at the neighborhood level. In particular, developing a resi...

Remarks at Bank Indonesia

The representatives at this conference from inflation targeting central banks—including Brazil, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, New Zealand, Korea, Thailand, and the United Kingdom—have provided us with a useful overview of how inflation targeting works in practice. These experiences will be very important as other countries, including Indonesia, consider inflation targeting. We have also had so...

Conference on biometeorological consequences of environmental controls. Housing: introductory remarks.

About a decade ago I wrote a review of the relations of indoor to outdoor atmospheric conditions (1). In the interval, the major substantive contributions in this field have been in the air quality field. A comprehensive review of this area, covering the entire literature since the 1930's has been published by EPA (2). Another rather interesting monograph has just appeared, in which the meteoro...