Publisher's Synopsis
Published twice a year, BPEA offers authoritative, in-depth research on economic development for economists, government officials, and members of the financial and business communities. For nearly thirty years, BPEA has been an indispensable source for scholars and policymakers seeking objective analysis of major macroeconomic issues. Contents include: "Evidence on the High-Income Laffer Curve from Six Decades of Tax Reform" by Austan Goolsbee "The Adequacy of Retirement Saving" by Eric Engen, WIlliam G. Gale, and Cori R. Uccello "Aggregate Demand and Logn_term Unemployment" by Laurence Ball "Financial Crises in the 1890s and the 1990s: Must History Repeat?" by J. Bradford DeLong "Stability, Asymmetry, and Discontinuity: The Launch of European Monetary Union" by Giancarlo Corsetti and Paolo Pesenti.
