Economic Growth: Sources, Trends and Cycles (Series on central banking, analysis, and economic policies)

hardcover with dust jacket, mild wear to the jacket, A nice copy. No writing or highlighting. Clean pages, shows very minimal signs of wear from use. Shipped with care in a bubble mailer. Feel free to inquire for photos or more details. --- A collection of economic studies edited by Norman Loayza, issued as volume 6 of the Central Bank of Chile's series on central banking, analysis and economic policies. The book first looks at growth in general terms. Its opening chapter surveys the sources of economic growth, and later chapters take up stylized facts and growth models, the quantity and quality of growth, and how policy evaluation is used in empirical growth research. The rest of the volume deals with Chile. It covers productivity and growth, finance and growth, and the "golden period" of Chilean growth, with explanations and forecasts. It also examines Chile's growth and adjustment in the 1990s, where the slowdown is traced to external shocks and to fiscal and monetary policy that did not work together. A final study estimates output gaps and trends for the Chilean economy.…