Office hours for this class are Wednesdays 7:30-12:00 AM or by appointment.
We will cover a few chapter of the textbook, and rapidly divert from it. In particular, some recent working papers or articles will also be covered. They are mentioned below, whenever possible with a link to an online version. This list can and will change as we go along...
Narayana Kocherlakota, 1998. "Money is Memory", Journal of Economic Theory.
Walsh, Chapter 1
David Backus & Patrick Kehoe, 1992. "International
Evidence of the Historical Properties of Business Cycles", American
Economic Review
Lawrence Christiano, Martin Eichenbaum, Charles Evans, 1998, "Monetary Policy Shocks:
What Have We Learned and to What End?", NBER working paper.
Riccardo Fiorito and Tryphon Kollintzas, 1994. "Stylized Facts of
Business
Cycles in the G7 from a Real Business Cycles Perspective", European
Economic Review.
Finn E. Kydland & Edward C. Prescott, 1990. "Business
cycles: real facts and a monetary myth", Federal Reserve Bank of
Minneapolis Quarterly Review, (Spr) pp. 3-18.
George McCandless, Jr. & Warren E. Weber, 1995. "Some monetary
facts", Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Quarterly Review, (Sum)
pp. 2-11.
Walsh, Chapter 2
James M. Poterba & Julio J. Rotemberg, 1988. "Money in the Utility
Function: An Empirical Implementation", NBER Reprints 1024 (also
Working
Paper 1796 ), National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
Robert E. Lucas, Jr., 2000. "Inflation and Welfare", Econometrica, Vol. 68 (2) pp. 247-274.
Alvin L. Marty, 1999. "The
welfare cost of inflation: a critique of
Bailey and Lucas", Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, (Jan) pp.
41-46.
Walsh, Section 3.2
Walsh, Sections 3.3, 3.6
Svensson, Lars E O, 1985. "Money and
Asset Prices in a
Cash-in-Advance Economy", Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 93 (5)
pp.
919-44.
Lucas, Robert E, Jr & Stokey, Nancy L, 1987. "Money and
Interest
in a Cash-in-Advance Economy", Econometrica, Vol. 55 (3) pp. 491-513.
Cooley, Thomas F & Hansen, Gary D, 1989. "The
Inflation Tax in
a Real Business Cycle Model", American Economic Review, Vol. 79 (4)
pp. 733-48.
Cooley, Thomas F & Hansen, Gary D, 1991. "The
Welfare Costs of
Moderate Inflations", Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Vol. 23
(3)
pp. 483-503.
Walsh, Section 3.4.2
Kiyotaki, Nobuhiro & Wright, Randall, 1989. "On Money
as a Medium
of Exchange", Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 97 (4) pp. 927-54.
Ritter, Joseph A, 1995. "The
Transition from Barter to Fiat
Money", American Economic Review, Vol. 85 (1) pp. 134-49.
Howitt, Peter, and Robert Clower, 2000. "The
Emergence of Economic Organization",
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 41 (1) pp. 55-84.
Trejos, Alberto & Wright, Randall, 1995. "Search,
Bargaining, Money,
and Prices", Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 103 (1) pp. 118-41.
Ricardo Lagos and Randall Wright, 2005.
A Unified Framework for Monetary Theory and Policy Analysis,
Journal of Political Economy, vol. 113(3), pages 463-484.
Lucy Qian Liu, Liang Wang and Randall Wright, 2008, The "Hot Potato" Effect of Inflation, working paper, University of Pennsylvania.
McCandless, George & Wallace, Neil, 1991. "Introduction to Dynamic Macroeconomic Theory", Harvard University Press. Chapters 10, 11, 12.
Walsh, Section 5.2.2
Grossman, Sanford & Weiss, Laurence, 1983. "A
Transactions-Based
Model of the Monetary Transmission Mechanism", American Economic
Review,
Vol. 73 (5) pp. 871-80.
Fernando Alvarez, Andrew Atkeson, and Patrick J. Kehoe, 2002. "Money,
Interest Rates, and Exchange Rates with Endogenously Segmented
Markets",
Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 110 (1) pp. 73-112.
Christiano,
Lawrence J & Eichenbaum, Martin, 1992. "Liquidity
Effects
and the Monetary Transmission Mechanism", American Economic Review,
Vol. 82
(2) pp. 346-53.
Moran, Kevin, and Hendry, Scott, 2004. "Limited
Participation and Costly Search in Financial Markets", Bank of Canada,
mimeo.
Filippo Occhino, 2004.
"Modeling the Response of Money and Interest Rates to Monetary Policy Shocks: A Segmented Markets Approach,"
Review of Economic Dynamics,
Elsevier for the Society for Economic Dynamics, vol. 7(1), pages 181-197.
Williamson, Stephen, 2004. "Limited
Participation, Private Money, and Credit in a Spatial Model of Money",
Economic Theory, Springer, vol. 24(4), pages 857-875.
David Andolfatto & Ed Nosal, 2003. "A Theory of Money
and Banking", working paper 03-10, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.
Walsh, Section 5.3.2
Mark Bils and Peter J. Klenow, 2004.
"Some Evidence on the Importance of Sticky Prices,"
Journal of Political Economy,
University of Chicago Press, vol. 112(5), pages 947-985, October.
Mikhail Golosov & Robert E. Lucas Jr., 2007.
"Menu Costs and Phillips Curves,"
Journal of Political Economy,
University of Chicago Press, vol. 115(2), pages 171-199, April.
Joseph G. Altonji & Paul J. Devereux, 1999.
"The Extent and Consequences of Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity,"
NBER Working Paper
7236.
Christopher Hanes & John A. James, 2003.
"Wage Adjustment under Low Inflation: Evidence from U.S. History,"
American Economic Review, vol. 93(4), pages 1414-1424, September.
Lawrence J. Christiano, Martin Eichenbaum, and Charles L. Evans, 2005.
"Nominal Rigidities and the Dynamic Effects of a Shock to Monetary Policy,"
Journal of Political Economy,
University of Chicago Press, vol. 113(1), pages 1-45, February.
Cho, Jang-Ok & Cooley, Thomas F, 1995. "The Business
Cycle with Nominal Contracts", Economic Theory, Vol. 6 (1) pp. 13-33.
V. V. Chari & Patrick J. Kehoe & Ellen R. McGrattan, 2000. "Sticky
Price Models of the Business Cycle: Can the Contract Multiplier Solve the
Persistence Problem?", Econometrica, Vol. 68 (5) pp. 1151-1180.
Walsh, Chapter 7
Bernanke, Ben S & Gertler, Mark, 1995. "Inside the
Black Box:
The Credit Channel of Monetary Policy Transmission", Journal of
Economic
Perspectives, Vol. 9 (4) pp. 27-48.
Cooley, Thomas & Quadrini, Vincenzo, 2006. "Monetary Policy
and The Financial Decisions of Firms", Economic Theory, Springer, vol. 27(1), pages 243-270.
Jordi Gali, 1999.
"Technology, Employment, and the Business Cycle: Do Technology Shocks Explain Aggregate Fluctuations?,"
American Economic Review,
vol. 89(1), pages 249-271, March.
V. V. Chari & Patrick J. Kehoe & Ellen R. McGrattan, 2005.
"A critique of structural VARs using business cycle theory,"
Staff Report
364, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde & Juan F. Rubio-Ramirez & Thomas J. Sargent, 2005.
"A, B, C's (And D's) For Understanding VARS,"
PIER Working Paper
05-018, Penn Institute for Economic Research, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania.
Lawrence J. Christiano & Martin Eichenbaum & Robert Vigfusson, 2006.
"Assessing structural VARs,"
International Finance Discussion Paper
866, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
Walsh, Chapter 8
Kydland, Finn E & Prescott, Edward C, 1977. "Rules
Rather Than
Discretion: The Inconsistency of Optimal Plans", Journal of Political
Economy, Vol. 85 (3) pp. 473-91.
Barro, Robert J & Gordon, David B, 1983.
"A
Positive Theory of
Monetary Policy in a Natural Rate Model", Journal of Political
Economy,
Vol. 91 (4) pp. 589-610.
Taylor, John B., 1993. "Discretion versus Policy Rules in Practice". Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, Vol. 39 pp. 195-214.
Athanasios Orphanides, 2000.
"Activist stabilization policy and inflation: the Taylor rule in the 1970s,"
Finance and Economics Discussion Series
2000-13, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
Benhabib, Jess & Schmitt-Grohe, Stephanie & Uribe, Martin, 2001.
"The Perils of Taylor Rules,"
Journal of Economic Theory,
Elsevier, vol. 96(1-2), pages 40-69, January.
Robert Shimer, 2005.
"The Cyclical Behavior of Equilibrium Unemployment and Vacancies,"
American Economic Review,
American Economic Association, vol. 95(1), pages 25-49, March.
Robert E. Hall, 2005.
"Employment Fluctuations with Equilibrium Wage Stickiness,"
American Economic Review,
American Economic Association, vol. 95(1), pages 50-65, March.
Marcus Hagedorn & Iourii Manovskii, 2008.
"The cyclical behavior of equilibrium unemployment and vacancies revisited,"
Working Paper Series
853, European Central Bank.
Imrohoruglu, Ayse, 1989.
"Cost of Business Cycles with Indivisibilities and Liquidity Constraints,"
Journal of Political Economy,
University of Chicago Press, vol. 97(6), pages 1364-83, December.
Imrohoroglu, Ayse, 1992.
"The welfare cost of inflation under imperfect insurance,"
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control,
Elsevier, vol. 16(1), pages 79-91, January.
Hansen, Gary D & Imrohoroglu, Ayse, 1992.
"The Role of Unemployment Insurance in an Economy with Liquidity Constraints and Moral Hazard,"
Journal of Political Economy,
University of Chicago Press, vol. 100(1), pages 118-42, February.
Stéphane Pallage & Christian Zimmermann, 2001.
"Voting on Unemployment Insurance,"
International Economic Review,
vol. 42(4), pages 903-923, November.
Wang, Cheng & Williamson, Stephen, 1996.
"Unemployment insurance with moral hazard in a dynamic economy,"
Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy,
Elsevier, vol. 44, pages 1-41, June.
Raquel Fernandez & Alessandra Fogli & Claudia Olivetti, 2002.
"Marrying Your Mom: Preference Transmission and Women's Labor and Education Choices,"
NBER Working Papers
9234, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
Jeremy Greenwood & Ananth Seshadri & Mehmet Yorukoglu, 2005.
"Engines of Liberation,"
Review of Economic Studies,
Blackwell Publishing, vol. 72(1), pages 109-133, 01.
Larry E. Jones & Rodolfo E. Manuelli & Ellen R. McGrattan, 2003.
"Why are married women working so much?,"
Staff Report
317, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
John Knowles, 2005.
"Why are Married Men Working So Much?,"
PIER Working Paper
05-031, Penn Institute for Economic Research, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania.
Diamond, Douglas W & Dybvig, Philip H, 1983.
"Bank Runs, Deposit Insurance, and Liquidity,"
Journal of Political Economy,
University of Chicago Press, vol. 91(3), pages 401-19, June.
Takeo Hoshi & Anil Kashyap, 1999.
"The Japanese Banking Crisis: Where Did It Come From and How Will It End?,"
NBER Working Papers
7250, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
Fumio Hayashi & Edward C. Prescott, 2002.
"The 1990s in Japan: A Lost Decade,"
Review of Economic Dynamics,
Elsevier for the Society for Economic Dynamics, vol. 5(1), pages 206-235, January.
Demirguc-Kunt, Asli & Detragiache, Enrica & Gupta, Poonam, 2006.
"Inside the crisis: An empirical analysis of banking systems in distress,"
Journal of International Money and Finance,
Elsevier, vol. 25(5), pages 702-718, August.
Carmen M. Reinhart & Kenneth S. Rogoff, 2009.
"The Aftermath of Financial Crises,"
NBER Working Papers
14656, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
Craig Burnside & Martin Eichenbaum & Sergio Rebelo, 2001.
"Prospective Deficits and the Asian Currency Crisis,"
Journal of Political Economy,
University of Chicago Press, vol. 109(6), pages 1155-1197, December.
Mertens, Karel, 2007.
"The Role of Expectations in Sudden Stops,"
Working Papers
07-10, Cornell University, Center for Analytic Economics.
Barseghyan, Levon & Jaimovich, Nir, 2004.
"Undercapitalized Banks, Uncertain Government Policies, and Declines in Total Factor Productivity,"
Working Papers
04-05, Cornell University, Center for Analytic Economics.
Robert J. Barro, 2007.
"Rare Disasters, Asset Prices, and Welfare Costs,"
NBER Working Papers
13690, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
Robert J. Barro & José F. Ursúa, 2009.
"Stock-Market Crashes and Depressions,"
NBER Working Papers
14760, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
A word about grades. When I grade, the average is usually around 60%. This allows me to reward better those who do well. Do not be too alarmed when you get a grade that is lower than those you get in other classes. But if it is really low, you should do something about it...