The Meaning and Reliability of Economic Summit Undertakings: 1975-1989
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ISBN
0815312539
Publication Date
1993
Publisher
Garland Publishing, Inc.
City
New York
Disciplines
Business
0815312539
1993
Garland Publishing, Inc.
New York
Business
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I
The Imprecise Obligations of Summit Declarations: Introduction and Summary
The Summit Outcome and Issues of Credibility
Economic Distress and the Choice of Summit Issues
Compliance Testing: Approach, Limits and Justification
Interpreting Undertakings and Scoring Outcomes: Mathematical Approach and Examples
Statistical Properties of Compliance Scores
Summit Ambition and Forecasting Accuracy
Appendix I: Summit-By-Summit Inflation Forecasts
Scoring the Undertakings Identified in the First Fifteen Summits
Appendix II: Scores for the Summits 1975-1977, 1979-1989
Results for the 1975-89 Economic Summits
Part II
The Revealed Understanding of Economic Relationships
The Public Record of the Annual Economic Summits
Appendix III: Source of Economic Understandings Centered on Policy Issues
Appendix IV: Empirical Evidence on Policy Issues
Appendix V: Var Modeling and Simulations
Empirical Evidence on Economic Understandings Centered on Interest Rates
Empirical Evidence on Economic Understandings Centered on Inflation Issues
Appendix VI: Empirical Evidence on Inflation Issues
Empirical Evidence on Economic Understandings Centered on Exchange Rates and the Current Account
Appendix VII: Empirical Evidence on Economic Understandings Centered on Exchange Rates and the Current Account
Empirical Evidence on the Growth Effect of Oil Price Declines
Appendix VIII: Empirical Evidence on the Growth Effect of Oil Price Declines
Results for the 1975-1989 Economic Summits
Conclusion
References
Authors
Index