Brookings Papers on Economic Activity

A semiannual journal that publishes analyses of significant recent and current economic developments from discussions at conferences of the Brookings Panel on Economic Activity. For academic and business economists, government officials, and members of the financial and business communities.

How much do we understand about the modern recession?
September 22, 2007

What we still don't know about monetary and fiscal policy.
September 22, 2007

Monetary policy models.
September 22, 2007

Living with global imbalances.
September 22, 2007

Low interest rates and high asset prices: an interpretation in terms o...
September 22, 2007

Long-run changes in the wage structure: narrowing, widening, polarizin...
September 22, 2007

Selected issues in the rise of income inequality.
September 22, 2007

Are we having more fun yet? Categorizing and evaluating changes in tim...
September 22, 2007

Who's afraid of a big bad oil shock?
September 22, 2007

Unfinished business in the macroeconomics of low inflation: a tribute ...
September 22, 2007

A tribute to George Perry and William Brainard.
September 22, 2007

In honor of William Brainard and George Perry.
September 22, 2007

Cracking the conundrum.
March 22, 2007

Foreign capital and economic growth.
March 22, 2007

International reserves in emerging market countries: too much of a goo...
March 22, 2007

Editors' summary.
March 22, 2007

Explaining a productive decade.(role of information technology industr...
March 22, 2007

The effect of dividends on consumption.(Report)
March 22, 2007

Editors' summary.(report on China's banking sector, return on investme...
September 22, 2006

The sources and sustainability of China's economic growth.
September 22, 2006

The return to capital in China.
September 22, 2006

The contradiction in China's gradualist banking reforms.
September 22, 2006

Bubble, bubble, where's the housing bubble?
March 22, 2006

Predicting Policy effects.(Bubble, Bubble, Where's the Housing Bubble?...
March 22, 2006

Editors' summary.
March 22, 2006

Reforming the defined-benefit pension system.
March 22, 2006

The recent decline in the labor force participation rate and its impli...
March 22, 2006

Model performance. (The recent Decline in the Labor Force Participatio...
March 22, 2006

Are successive generations getting wealthier, and if so, why? Evidence...
March 22, 2006

Capital gains, stock ownership diffusion, and 401(k) plans.(Are Succes...
March 22, 2006

The second locus of reform: pricing of PBGC insurance.(Reforming the D...
March 22, 2006

Where did the productivity growth go? Inflation dynamics and the distr...
September 22, 2005

Are empowerment and education enough? Underdiversification in 401(k) p...
September 22, 2005

Gauging employment: is the professional wisdom wrong?(employment statu...
September 22, 2005

Gauging employment: is the professional wisdom wrong? Comment and disc...
September 22, 2005

Editors' summary.(on banks)(Editorial)
September 22, 2005

Central bank transparency and the signal value of prices.
September 22, 2005

Central bank transparency and the signal value of prices: comments and...
September 22, 2005

Where did the productivity growth go? Inflation dynamics and the distr...
September 22, 2005

Are empowerment and education enough? Underdiversification in 401(k) p...
September 22, 2005

A robust strategy for sustainable energy.
September 22, 2005

A robust strategy for sustainable energy: comments and discussion.
September 22, 2005

Editors' summary.
March 22, 2005

Global current account imbalances and exchange rate adjustments.
March 22, 2005

Is the U.S. current account deficit sustainable? If not, how costly is...
March 22, 2005

Asset returns and economic growth.
March 22, 2005

International investors, the U.S. current account, and the dollar.
March 22, 2005

Is it 1958 or 1968? Three notes on the longevity of the Revived Bretto...
March 22, 2005

Editors' summary.(Editorial)
September 22, 2004

Monetary policy alternatives at the zero bound: an empirical assessmen...
September 22, 2004

What happened to the great U.S. job machine? The role of trade and ele...
September 22, 2004

Budget deficits, national saving, and interest rates.
September 22, 2004

Investment, overhang, and tax policy.
September 22, 2004

Comment and discussion.(What Does the Public Know about Economic Polic...
March 22, 2004

Ending Africa's poverty trap.(Part 1)
March 22, 2004

Assessing the impact of welfare reform on single mothers.(Part 2)
March 22, 2004

What does the public know about economic policy, and how does it know ...
March 22, 2004

Comments and discussion.(Demography and the Long-Run Predictability of...
March 22, 2004

Demography and the long-run predictability of the stock market.(Part 2...
March 22, 2004

Demography and the long-run predictability of the stock market.(Part 1...
March 22, 2004

Ending Africa's poverty trap.(Part 2)
March 22, 2004

Comments and discussion.(Ending Africa's Poverty Trap)
March 22, 2004

Assessing the impact of welfare reform on single mothers.(Part 1)
March 22, 2004

Comments and discussion.(Assesing the Impact of Welfare Reform on Sing...
March 22, 2004

Editors' summary.(Editorial)
March 22, 2004

What does the public know about economic policy, and how does it know ...
March 22, 2004

Editors' summary.
September 22, 2003

Liberalization, growth, and financial crises: lessons from Mexico and ...
September 22, 2003

The empirics of growth: an update.
September 22, 2003

Exploding productivity growth: context, causes, and implications.
September 22, 2003

Is there a bubble in the housing market?
September 22, 2003

Editors' summary.(Editorial)
March 22, 2003

Debt intolerance.
March 22, 2003

Fiscal policy, past and present.
March 22, 2003

The zero bound on interest rates and optimal monetary policy.
March 22, 2003

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