This Economic Letter summarizes the papers presented at the conference on "External Imbalances and Adjustment in the Pacific Basin" held at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco on September 22-23, 2005, under the sponsorship of the Bank's Center for Pacific Basin Studies.

Some commentators have questioned whether China’s economy slowed more in 2012 than official gross domestic product figures indicate. However, the 2012 reported output and industrial production figures are consistent both with alternative Chinese indicators of the country’s economic activity,...

The Economic Letter summarizes the papers presented at the symposium "Revived Bretton Woods System: a new paradigm for Asian development?" held at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco on February 4, 2005, under the joint sponsorship of the Bank's Center for Pacific Basin Studies and the...

This Economic Letter is based on a presentation Mark Spiegel prepared for a panel on "Optimal Currency Arrangements for Emerging Market Economies: The Experience of Latin America and Asia" organized by the Latin American and Asian Economics and Business Association on July 15, 2002, in Tokyo, Japan

This Economic Letter briefly reviews 11 papers that provide analytical perspectives and new empirical evidence on the causes of these crises as well as the appropriate policy responses. These papers, prepared for a conference sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco’s Center for...