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Contents Include:
Articles
Productivity Levels in Germany, Japan, and the United States: Differences and Causes, Bart Van Ark and Dirk Pilat
Competition, Regulation, and Efficiency in Service Industries, Martin Neil Baily
International Trade and American Wages in the 1980s: Giant Sucking Sound or Small Hiccup?, Robert Z. Lawrence and Matthew J. Slaughter
Fat: The Displacement of Nonproduction Workers from U.S. Manufacturing Industries, Richard E. Caves and Matthew B. Krepps
Industrial Research During the 1980s: Did the Rate of Return Fall?, Bronwyn H. Hall
Implementing a National Technology Strategy with Self-Organizing Investment Boards, Paul M. Romer
About the Author: Martin Neil Baily is the director of the Business Initiative at Brookings. He was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers from 1999 to 2001. He is the author of Transforming the European Economy (Institute for International Economics, 2004). Peter C. Reiss is a professor of economics at Stanford University and directs the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, also at Stanford. Clifford Winston is a senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution. Among his previous books are Deregulation of Network Industries: What's Next? coedited with Sam Peltzman (AEI-Brookings, 2000), and Alternate Route: Toward Efficient Urban Transportation, cowritten with Chad Shirley (Brookings, 1998).
