Global imbalances and the evolving world economy / edited by Jane Sneddon Little.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Little, Jane Sneddon.

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Economic Conference 2006 : Chatham, Mass.)

Series:

Conference series (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston) ; no. 51.

Conference series ; 51

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International finance.

Balance of payments.

Balance of trade.

Physical Description:

vi, 383 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston, Mass. : Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, [2008]

Contents:

Rebalancing act: global imbalances in a changing world / Jane Sneddon Little

Box: the economic importance of the emerging giants / Selva Bahar Baziki

Dancing with giants: the geopolitics of East Asia in the twenty-first century / Stephen W. Bosworth

Lessons from history

Losing our marbles in the new century? The great rebalancing in historical perspective / Christopher M. Meissner and Alan M. Taylor

Comments / Suzanne Berger

Comments / John F. Helliwell

Labor market imbalances

Labor market imbalances: shortages, surpluses, or what? Richard B. Freeman

Comments / Surjit S. Bhalla

Comments / Alan V. Deardorff

The essential complements to capital

Capital and its complements in economic growth / J. Bradford DeLong

Comments / Abhijit V. Banerjee

Comments/ Lixin Colin Xu

Imbalances between savings and investment

Understanding global imbalances / Richard N. Cooper

Comments / Guy Debelle

Comments / Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Adjustment mechanisms

Interest rates, exchange rates, and international adjustments / Michael P. Dooley, David Folkerts-Landau, and Peter M. Garber

Comments / Catherine L. Mann

Comments / Eswar S. Prasad

Appropriate adjustment considerations and policies

An Indian perspective on global imbalances and potential policy responses / Shankar Acharya

The effects of globalization on inflation and the implications for monetary policy / Donald L. Kohn

Five policy-relevant observations and an epilogue for 2008 / Lawrence H. Summers.

Notes:

"This edited volume is based on a conference held in June 2006 by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

OCLC:

263095163