About the Authors

PAUL ATKINSON is Head of the General Economic Assessment Division of the Economics Department at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, in Paris. He has also served as head of the Money & Finance Division, as Counsellor for Macroeconomic Policy, and as Principal Administrator, Balance of Payments Division. Earlier, he worked at the Institute of International Finance and at the New Zealand Treasury. Atkinson was an undergraduate at Williams College and received a master’s degree in mathematics from Trinity College. He went on to earn B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in economics from Trinity College, University of Cambridge. He has written on world trade, monetary targeting, and interest rates. A recent article (with Robert C. York) is “The Reliability of Quarterly National Accounts in Seven Major Countries: A User’s Perspective.”