Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 1999:2

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Contents include: “Evidence on the High-Income Laffer Curve from Six Decades of Tax Reform” by Austan Goolsbee “The Adequacy of Retirement Saving” by Eric Engen, WIlliam G. Gale, and Cori R. Uccello “Aggregate Demand and Logn_term Unemployment” by Laurence Ball “Financial Crises in the 1890s and the 1990s: Must History Repeat?” by J. Bradford DeLong “Stability, Asymmetry, and Discontinuity: The Launch of European Monetary Union” by Giancarlo Corsetti and Paolo Pesenti

William C. Brainard is professor of economics at Yale University. George L. Perry is a senior fellow in the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution.