Macroeconomics

For almost thirty years, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (BPEA) has provided academic and business economists, government officials, and members of the financial and business communities with timely research of current economic issues. Contents Include: Articles SANJA BHAGAT, ANDREI SHILEIFER, and ROBERT W. VISHNY Hostile Takeovers in the 1980: The return to Corporate Specialization BRONWYN H. HALL The Impact of Corporate Restructuring on Industrial Research and Development MICHAEL L. KATZ and JANUSZ A. ORDOVER R&D Cooperation and Competition OLIVER HART and JEAN TIROLE Vertical Integration and Market Foreclosure MICHAEL SALINGER The Concentration-Margins Relationship Reconsidered PAUL M. ROMER Capital, Labor, and Productivity MARTIN NEIL BAILY and CHARLE L. SCHILTZE The Productivity of Capital in a Period of Slower Growth