The United States Economy: Performance and Issues

Books, January 15, 1992

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Bibliographic details

• Authors: Yusuke Horiguchi
• Published: January 15, 1992
• Series: Books
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781557752314.071

Overview

• Book examines U.S. economic policy and performance in the 1980s, a period when the United States enjoyed its longest peacetime expansion.
• Authored by Yusuke Horiguchi; staff team headed by Yusuke Horiguchi.
• Publication date: January 15, 1992.
• Summary emphasis: buoyant growth and declines in inflation occurred alongside persistent macroeconomic and structural challenges.

Major findings

• Macroeconomic environment:
  • Longest peacetime expansion during the 1980s.
  • Buoyant growth and declines in inflation.
  • Low savings.
  • Current account deficits.
  • Swings in the dollar exchange rate.
• Structural problems identified:
  • Strength of financial institutions.
  • The tax system.
  • Health care.
  • Productivity.

Subject coverage and keywords

• Subject headings explicitly listed:
  • 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

Staff team (as listed)

• Yusuke Horiguchi (head)
• 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
• Ellen M. Nedde