For almost thirty years, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (BPEA) has provided academic and business economists, government officials, and members of the financial and business communities with timely research of current economic issues.Contents include:

Articles

Macroeconomic Performance and the Disadvantaged, David M. Cutler and Lawrence F. Katz

Why Has the Natural Rate of Unemployment Increased over Time?, Chinhui Juhn, Kevin M. Murphy and Robert H. Topel

House Price Dynamics: The Role of Tax Policy and Demography Reports, James M. Poterba

The Credit Crunch, Ben S. Bernanke and Cara S. Lown The 1991 State and Local Fiscal Crisis Symposium on the Soviet Economy after Communism, Edward M. Gramlich

Economic Reform in the US and the Role of Aid, Stanley Fischer

Economic Reforms in the Sovereign States of the Former Soviet Union, William W. Hogan

Do Borders Matter? Soviet Economic Reform after the Coup, William D. Nordhaus, Merton J. Peck, and Thomas J. Richardson

Reversing the Soviet Economic Collapse, Andrei Shleifer and Robert W. Vishny