United States: Selected Issues
September 6, 2000
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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
Pages:
70
Volume:
2000
DOI:
Issue:
112
Series:
Country Report No. 2000/112
Stock No:
1USAEA0022000
ISBN:
9781451960297
ISSN:
1934-7685
