Brookings Panel on Economic Activity 1991-1993, Washington, D.C.

布鲁金斯经济活动小组的目标是将宏观经济研究重点放在美国经济面临的问题上。该小组致力于通过产生、讨论和发表具有宏观经济意义的高质量、相关和及时的研究来实现这一目标。小组的首要承诺是进行高质量的研究，小组的运作方法就是以这一目标为首要目标而设计的。与传统期刊相比，其发表的研究经历了更为严格的审查、批评、讨论和编辑过程。在这一过程中以及在主题和作者部分，小组主任得到小组顾问的协助，小组顾问是一组具有广泛哲学观点和方法偏好的专家。小组不追求高度抽象和纯理论的经济关系模型，因为这种模型不能根据数据和实际经验加以处理。但受此约束，它的相关性概念是广泛的。它包括探索经济的基本特征及其对政策的反应的研究，以及旨在澄清和量化经济关系的更多应用研究。它关注广泛影响经济表现的问题，包括长期增长、全球相互依存和能源政策等领域，以及与商业周期和经济稳定有关的一系列问题。

The Brookings Panel on Economic Activity aims to focus macroeconomic research on problems confronting the U.S. economy. The Panel strives to fulfill this purpose by generating, discussing, and publishing high quality, relevant and timely research of macroeconomic significance. Its first commitment is to produce quality research, and the Panel's method of operation is designed with that goal foremost in mind. Its published research undergoes a much more intensive process of review, criticism, discussion and editing than conventional journals can provide. In this process and in the section of topics and authors, the directors of the Panel are aided by the Panel Advisers, a group of experts spanning a broad range of philosophical views and methodological preferences. The Panel does not pursue highly abstract and purely theoretical modeling of economic relationships which cannot be treated against data and actual experience. But subject to that constraint, its notion of relevance is broad. It includes research to explore fundamental characteristics of the economy and how it responds to policy, as well as more applied research aimed at clarifying and quantifying economic relationships. It is concerned with issues affecting economic performance broadly, including areas such as long-run growth, global interdependence, and energy policy, as well as the range of issues associated with business cycles and economic stabilization.