Brookings Papers on Economic Activity: Fall 2009 (Electronic book text)

Tentative contents includeThe Age of Reason: Financial Decisions over the Life Cycle and Implications for RegulationSumit Agarwal (Federal Reserve Bank Of Chicago), Xavier Gabaix (New York University), and David Laibson (Harvard University)Heeding Daedalus: Optimal Inflation and the Zero Lower BoundJohn C. Williams (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco) By How Much Does GDP Rise If the Government Buys More Output?Robert E. Hall (Stanford University)Interpreting the Unconventional U.S. Monetary Policy of 2007-09Ricardo Reis (Columbia University)When the North Heads South: The World in CrisisCarmen M. Reinhart (University of Maryland), and Vincent Reinhart (American Enterprise Institute)