IMF Staff Country Reports

United States: Selected Issues

September 6, 2000

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Summary

This Selected Issues paper focuses on the adoption of new technology and globalization in the United States of America, and assesses the change in the productivity growth and revised estimates, the developments in the labor market, equity prices, and the technology boom. The paper analyzes how the monetary policy influences economic conditions in emergency markets; reviews the developments in financial consolidation; discusses the key provisions contained in the Gramm-Leach-Bliley (GLB) Act, the implications of the GLB Act for financial consolidation, and regulatory and supervisory practices.

Subject: Banking, Labor, Labor force, Labor productivity, Production, Productivity, Total factor productivity, Wages

Keywords: CR, Earnings, East Asia, Employment growth, Equity-risk premium, Global, H-P filter, ISCR, Labor force, Labor force growth, Labor productivity, North America, Northern Europe, Price-earnings ratio, Production function approach, Productivity, Productivity growth, Total factor productivity, Wages

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    70

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2000/112

  • Stock No:

    1USAEA0022000

  • ISBN:

    9781451960297

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685