Recently added articles from Business Economics:
In Memoriam: Edmund A. Mennis.(In Memoriam)(Obituary)
Jul 01, 2009; Musgrave, Gerald L. ... Business Economics (2009) 44, 130-131. doi:10.1057/be.2009.21 Ed was a friend of business economists and a staunch supporter of NABE. He was a member of our association from its inception in 1959. He was elected as a Fellow of NABE in 1961 and served on the Board of Directors ...
Fiscal policy and economic recovery.(Original Articles)
Jul 01, 2009; Romer, Christina D. ... The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is the biggest, boldest countercyclical fiscal stimulus in American history. What is its likely impact? Current econometric models indicate that a tax cut is likely to have a multiplier of about 1.0 and that spending has a multiplier of ...
Government lending and monetary policy.(Original Articles)
Jul 01, 2009; Lacker, Jeffrey M. ... The financial dimension of the current contraction has brought a historic expansion in government lending to financial market participants, mostly through an expanding array of Federal Reserve (Fed) initiatives. This contrasts with the Fed's typical response to recent recessions that has ...
Four long-term fiscal realities.(Original Articles)
Jul 01, 2009; Viard, Alan D. ... The United States faces a long-run fiscal imbalance because of rapid projected growth in Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid spending. The policy response to the imbalance will be shaped by four long-term fiscal realities. First, revenue will rise as a share of GDP. Second, entitlement ...
Trade policy and the Obama administration.(Original Articles)
Jul 01, 2009; Schott, Jeffrey J. ... During his primary campaign, President Obama took an aggressive stance on trade, suggesting a protectionist drift in U.S. trade policy. However, it seems more likely that policy will focus more on enforcement of existing rights than on protectionist initiatives. The major influences on ...
Globalization of the U.S. food supply: reconciling product safety regulation with free trade.(Original Articles)
Jul 01, 2009; Hemphill, Thomas A. ... The pet food recall in the spring of 2007, its aftermath, and other reports of contaminated food imports have had an adverse affect on the American shopper's confidence in the safety of the nation's food supply. This paper argues that the responsibility for ensuring that imported food ...
Capital Ideas Evolving.
Jul 01, 2009; McLean, Robert A. ... By Peter L Bernstein. 2009. New York: John Wiley & Sons, pp. 304, $29.92 hardcover. 16.95, paperback. Business Economics (2009) 44, 183-184. doi:10.1057/be.2009.19 In 1992, Peter Bernstein published Capital Ideas (New York: The Fee Press), an articulate ...
