The United States Economy: Performance and Issues

January 15, 1992

Summary

This book, by a staff team headed by Yusuke Horiguchi, examines U.S. economic policy and performance in the 1980s, during which the United States enjoyed its longest peacetime expansion. Notwithstanding the buoyant growth and declines in inflation, the economy experienced low savings, current account deficits, swings in the dollar exchange rate, and structural problems--relating to the strength of financial institutions, the tax system, health care, and productivity.

Subject: Corporate income tax, Exchange rates, Expenditure, Foreign exchange, Health care spending, Income tax systems, Labor, National accounts, Private savings, Real exchange rates, Taxes, Unemployment rate

Keywords: BOOK, Corporate income tax, cost of capital, Europe, Exchange rates, Global, Health care spending, Income tax systems, inflation equation, North America, Private savings, rate of return, Real exchange rates, saving rate, tax treatment, Unemployment rate

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611
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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5089/9781557752314.071
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USEPEA0000000
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9781557752314
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Notes

Staff team headed by Yusuke Horiguchi included Charles Adams, Krister Andersson, A. Lans Bovenberg, Bankim Chadha, Daniel Citrin, David T. Coe, Sharmini Coorey, Robert Corker, Liam P. Ebrill, Owen Evans, Steven M. Fries, Lloyd Kenward, and Ellen M. Nedde.

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