National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
Contains edited versions of papers from a conference held at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Dec. 3-4, 1998.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
In this timely volume emanating from the National Bureau of Economic Research's program in international economics, leading economists address recent developments in three important areas. The first section of the book focuses on international comparisons of output and prices, and includes papers that present new measures of product market integration, new methodology to infer relative factor price changes from quantitative data, and an ongoing capital stock measurement project. The next section features articles on international trade, including such significant issues as deterring child labo.