This paper examines the linkage between economic developments in industrial economies and the economic performance of six Asian countries. A simple model is constructed to investigate these links, with particular emphasis on developments in the Asian countries' external positions and their...

Countries differed in their adjustment to the commodity price shocks of the 1970s. In some countries there was little wage adjustment, so that the brunt of the terms-of-trade loss was borne by profits; in others greater wage adjustment allowed the term-of-trade loss to be distributed more evenly...

Before the movement toward a generalized system of floating exchange rates, it was hoped that flexible rates would permit countries to pursue independent monetary policies. Experience with the system has led both policymakers and theoreticians to recognize the high degree of monetary...

The effects of the oil price shocks of the 1970s were critically contingent on the domestic arrangements that determined the incidence of the shocks--specifically whether labor income or capital income bore the brunt. This differed between the two shocks in some countries and differed between...

This paper investigates empirically the proposition that imports provide a competitive constraint, or discipline, on the price-raising ability of domestic producers. Estimates of the effect of changes in import competition (measured as changes in the ratio of the value of imports to the value of...

In the context of the continuing debate on Fund conditionality, many researchers both inside and outside the Fund have attempted to estimate the effects of Fund programs through the use of multicountry samples. A key challenge in such work is to estimate the counterfactual--that is, what would...

This paper provides an eclectic review and analysis of some of the potential costs and benefits likely to be associated with the implementation of wage indexation in an industrial economy. It suggests, inter alia, that few meaningful generalizations can be drawn about the probable effects of...

This paper examines the proposition that flexible exchange rates are more (less) inflationary than a system of fixed exchange rates. In contrast to much of the earlier writing on this issue, care is taken to distinguish between: (i) the effects on a single country's inflation rate and effects on...

Dans cette étude, l'auteur examine s'il serait possible, en appliquant une politique anti-inflationniste fondée sur une approche sélective par industrie, d'atténuer le problème que pose, en courte période, aux entreprises américaines, l'alternative entre la stabilité des prix et...

Il s'est avéré très difficile, dans de nombreux pays, de concilier le plein emploi et la stabilité des prix. A en juger d'après les expériences antérieures, les responsables de la politique économique se heurtent au dilemme d'une relation inverse: les efforts pour accroître la...