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Implications of a tariff on oil imports
An examination of the possible positive and negative effects that could result from a hypothetical $10 per barrel increase in tariffs on crude oil and refined oil products.
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How credible are capital spending surveys as forecasts?
A comparison of the reliability of the Commerce Department's capital spending survey with that of several alternative forecasts.
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Foreign capital inflows: another Trojan horse?
An analysis of the role of foreign investment in U.S. resource allocation, finding that the large influx of foreign capital in the 1980s has been used predominantly to fund domestic investment and consumer investment spending.
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Solutions to the international debt problem
A general discussion of the nature of the international debt problem and an analysis of a number of proposals for solving it.
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The decline in U.S. agricultural exports
An analysis of factors that produced a 40 percent drop in U.S. agricultural exports between 1981 and 1986, with a discussion of the potential effects of dollar depreciation and the 1985 Food Security Act.
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Regional interstate banking
A look at state initiatives in the interstate banking movement, including discussion about the economic and legal dimensions of regional banking pacts.
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Merchandise trade and the outlook for 1988
An explanation of why current forecasts that call for vast improvements in the U.S. trade balance and real net exports in 1988 may be too optimistic.
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Two neglected implications of dollar depreciation
An estimation of the costs and benefits that dollar depreciation imposes through changes in the prices of imports and exports, and through changes in the potential purchasing power of U.S. international assets and liabilities.
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Assessing and resisting inflation
An examination of the detrimental effects of inflation and a recommendation that policymakers should immediately resist a further acceleration of inflation, rather than wait for more signals of its future course.
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The steel trigger price mechanism
An examination of the 1978 steel trigger price mechanism, with a description of its operation and economic impact, and a discussion of events that led to its suspension in 1982.