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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“Valuing the Effect of Regulation on New Services in Telecommunications” by Jerry A. Hausman“The Changing Face of Job Loss in the United States, 1981-1995” by Henry S. Farber“Health Care Productivity” by Martin Neil Baily and Alan M. Garber“Measuring the Health of the U. S. Population” by David M. Cutler and Elizabeth Richardson“Antitrust Issues in the Licensing of Intellectual Property: The Nine No-No's Meet the Nineties” by Richard Gilbert and Carl Shapiro