International Economic Transactions: A Conference on Research and Measurement - Washington, DC, Fall l989

世界经济日益相互依存， 包括商品市场的国际化， 服务、生产要素和金融资产是 对测量和监测经济增长的需求日益增加 来自一个国家边界之外的影响。 大幅 2002年外国石油冲击对美国经济的影响 20世纪70年代和政策急剧转变的国际影响 20世纪80年代的结构变化显然已经过时了， 任何遗留的封闭经济衡量惯例， 考核 作为协商和协调政策的努力， 随着贸易模式的变化， 日益严重的外部失衡和波动的汇率， 每个国家的测量都有进一步的推动力， 监测国际交易，以便与 其他国家。 这项提议是在华盛顿召开为期两天的会议， 1989年秋季，华盛顿特区关于国际经济交易的报告。 该项目委托撰写论文， 这一实质性领域的评估和知识。 每篇论文 都是实证的，每一个都试图回答一个重要的研究问题， 问题使用的数据从一个选择的子领域。 最后，每个 本文件评估了其中一个分领域的数据质量： 贸易货物和服务的价格和成本; 贸易、产出和消费;服务贸易;直接 初级投入投资和内含贸易;跨国 金融资本的存量和流动; 政策 说明性的研究问题解决是如何 比较贸易商品的价格指数， 质量变化，如何确定决定因素和贸易规模 以及如何衡量非税收， 非关税政策举措及其影响。 在更广泛的科学界， 国际经济数据需要关键的 评估和重大检修。 的时机已经成熟 将研究人员、政策分析人员和统计人员聚集在一起， 拥有最高专业声誉的员工， 致力于卓越品质的测量和研究。

The growing economic interdependence of the world economy, including the internationalization of markets for goods, services, factors of production, and financial assets is creating increasing demands for measuring and monitoring economic influences from beyond a country's borders. The substantial impact on the U.S. economy of the foreign oil shocks during the 1970s and the international repercussions of sharp policy shifts and structural change in the 1980s have clearly rendered obsolete any lingering conventions of closed-economy measurement and assessment. As efforts to consult on and coordinate policies across countries mount in response to changing patterns of trade, growing external imbalances, and fluctuating exchange rates, there is a further impetus for each country's mneasurement and monitoring of international transactions to be comparable to that of other countries. This proposal is to convene a two-day conference in Washington, D.C. in the Fall of 1989 on international economic transactions. The project commissions papers that advance measurement, policy assessment and knowledge in this substantive area. Each paper is empirical, and each attempts to answer an important research question using data from a choice of sub-areas. Finally, each paper assesses the quality of data in one of these sub-areas: prices and costs of traded goods and services; relations among trade, output and consumption; trade in services; direct investment and embodied trade in primary inputs; cross national stocks and flows of financial capital; and measurement of policy. Illustrative of research questions addressed are how to compare price indexes of traded goods and correct them for quality change, how to identify determinants and size of trade and direct investment in services, and how to measure non-tax, non-tariff policy initiatives and their effects. Concern is increasing within the broader scientific community that international economic data are in need of critical asssessment and significant overhaul. The time is ripe for drawing together researchers, policy analysts, and statistical staff of the highest professional reputation , with proven commitments to measurement and research of outstanding quality.