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Quantitative measures of international exchange have historically focused on trade in tangible products or capital. However, services have recently become a larger portion of developed economies and international trade, and will only increase in the future. In International Trade in Services and Intangibles in the Era of Globalization, Marshall Reinsdorf and Matthew J. Slaughter examine new and emerging patterns of trade, especially the growing importance of transactions involving services or intangible assets such as intellectual property. A distinguished team of contri

This volume examines economic measurement in light of lessons learned in the financial crisis. It investigates how gaps in the data contributed to our failure to spot emerging risks to financial stability before and during the crisis, describing strategies for filling these gaps and for coping with the inherent dynamism of the financial marketplace. It discusses recent changes in measuring financial activity in the areas of defined benefit pension plans and cross border investment income. And it uses micro data to investigate the effects of the crisis on households and nonfinancial businesses.