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A Proposal to Eliminate the Distortions Caused by Bailouts 0 0 0 44 0 2 4 64
A contribution to the theory of pork barrel spending 1 3 4 359 2 5 10 2,332
A critique of structural VARs using real business cycle theory 1 1 3 435 1 2 8 1,946
A reconsideration of the problem of social cost: free riders and monopolists 0 0 0 379 0 1 7 1,512
Accounting for Business Cycles 0 0 5 86 0 1 10 193
Accounting for Business Cycles 0 0 1 150 0 1 7 210
Accounting for the Great Depression (technical appendix) 0 0 1 123 0 0 2 856
Adverse Selection, Reputation and Sudden Collapses in Secondary Loan Markets 0 0 0 80 1 1 2 323
Appendices: Business cycle accounting 0 0 0 466 0 0 2 914
Appendix for: Optimal Cooperative Taxation in the Global Economy 0 0 0 16 0 0 3 17
Are Structural VARs Useful Guides for Developing Business Cycle Theories? 0 0 1 228 1 1 3 448
Are Structural VARs with Long-Run Restrictions Useful in Developing Business Cycle Theory? 0 0 2 210 0 0 3 552
Are structural VARs with long-run restrictions useful in developing business cycle theory? 0 0 0 605 0 1 3 1,615
Bailouts, Time Inconsistency, and Optimal Regulation 0 0 0 90 0 0 0 221
Bailouts, Time Inconsistency, and Optimal Regulation 0 0 0 83 0 0 0 215
Bailouts, time inconsistency, and optimal regulation 0 0 0 60 0 0 1 186
Banking Panics 0 0 0 93 0 0 7 390
Business Cycle Accounting 0 1 2 334 0 2 11 1,429
Business Start-ups, the Lock-in Effect, and Capital Gains Taxation 0 1 1 26 1 2 7 147
Business cycle accounting 0 1 3 1,530 5 9 40 5,526
Business cycle accounting 0 0 1 36 0 2 7 600
Can Sticky Price Models Generate Volatile and Persistent Real Exchange Rates? 0 0 0 520 0 1 4 1,338
Can sticky price models generate volatile and persistent real exchange rates? 1 1 2 1,204 1 1 8 3,092
Can sticky price models generate volatile and persistent real exchange rates? 0 0 0 547 0 0 3 1,625
Comment on Iovino, La’O and Mascarenhas, “Optimal Monetary Policy and Disclosure with an Informationally-Constrained Central Banker” 0 0 0 4 0 2 2 10
Comparing alternative representations and alternative methodologies in business cycle accounting 0 0 0 121 0 0 1 312
Comparing alternative representations and alternative methodologies in business cycle accounting 0 0 1 150 1 2 5 384
Copyrights, Price Discrimination and Hidden Trading: Lessons from a Ricardian Theory of Innovation 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 128
Damage control? analyzing policies to repair credit markets 0 0 0 18 0 0 0 57
Efficiency and Adverse Selection: On the Desirability of Mutual Contracts 1 1 2 37 2 2 5 102
Equilibrium Contracts in a Monetary Economy 0 0 0 5 0 0 1 190
Expectation Traps and Discretion 0 0 1 139 0 0 1 1,158
Expectation Traps and Monetary Policy 0 0 0 178 0 1 1 757
Expectation Traps and Monetary Policy 0 0 0 266 0 0 2 795
Expectation Traps and Monetary Policy 0 0 0 41 1 1 3 383
Expectation traps and discretion 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 159
Expectation traps and monetary policy 0 0 0 136 0 0 2 468
Expectation traps and monetary policy 0 0 0 102 0 1 1 540
Expectations, traps and discretion 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 433
Facts and myths about the financial crisis of 2008 1 1 1 711 2 3 16 1,828
Financial Crises as Herds: Overturning the Critiques 0 0 1 224 1 1 5 633
Financial Repression: Evidence and Theory 2 6 10 219 7 14 35 583
Financial crises as herds 0 0 0 9 0 0 1 183
Financial crises as herds: overturning the critiques 0 0 1 358 1 1 4 1,066
Financialization in Commodity Markets 0 0 0 52 0 1 2 66
Financialization in Commodity Markets 0 0 0 13 0 3 5 74
Financialization in Commodity Markets 1 1 2 61 1 3 9 116
Hot Money 0 0 3 367 0 2 7 1,970
Hot money 0 0 1 566 0 0 2 1,993
How Severe is the Time Inconsistency Problem in Monetary Policy? 0 0 1 819 0 1 3 3,706
Inside Money, Outside Money and Short Term Interest Rates 0 0 2 677 0 2 6 3,547
Inside money, outside money and short term interest rates 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 1,001
International coordination of fiscal policy in limiting economies 0 0 1 88 0 0 2 508
Involuntary Unemployment and Implicit Contracts 0 0 0 47 0 0 2 230
Labor contracts in a model of imperfect competition 0 0 0 90 0 0 2 563
Layoffs and Unemployment Compensation as Social Instruments 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 285
Linear Stochastic Models with Decentralized Information 0 0 0 25 0 0 0 147
Matching Human Capital and Displacement 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 422
Modern Macroeconomics in Practice: How Theory is Shaping Policy 0 0 0 398 0 0 0 959
Modern macroeconomics in practice: how theory is shaping policy 0 0 0 546 0 0 3 1,435
Monetary Shocks and Real Exchange Rates in Sticky Price Models of International Business Cycles 0 0 1 809 0 0 3 2,589
Moral Hazard, Reputation, and Fragility in Credit Markets 0 0 0 0 1 2 6 241
More on the Optimal Taxation of Capital 0 0 0 94 0 0 2 158
New Keynesian Models: Not Yet Useful for Policy Analysis 0 0 0 663 1 3 6 1,727
New Keynesian models: not yet useful for policy analysis 0 0 0 154 0 1 6 537
New Keynesian models: not yet useful for policy analysis 0 0 0 357 0 1 4 737
On the Desirability of Fiscal Constraints in a Monetary Union 0 0 0 163 0 0 2 460
On the Efficiency of Competitive Equilibria with Pandemics 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 10
On the Efficiency of Competitive Equilibria with Pandemics 0 0 1 14 0 0 3 10
On the Ethics of Redistribution 0 2 4 44 0 3 5 89
On the Fragility of Reputation in Financial Markets 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 81
On the Job Training, Limited Commitment and Firing Costs 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 78
On the Optimal Choice of a Monetary Policy Instrument 0 0 0 171 0 0 2 458
On the desirability of fiscal constraints in a monetary union 0 0 0 104 0 0 0 386
On the need for fiscal constraints in a monetary union 0 0 0 23 1 1 3 264
On the optimal choice of a monetary policy instrument 0 0 1 229 0 0 7 606
On the robustness of herds 0 0 0 122 0 0 0 451
Optimal Capital Taxation Revisited 0 0 2 91 0 1 5 135
Optimal Capital Taxation Revisited 0 0 0 38 0 0 2 65
Optimal Cooperative Taxation in the Global Economy 0 0 0 55 0 0 0 120
Optimal Fiscal Policy in a Business Cycle Model 0 0 2 271 0 1 7 1,008
Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy 0 1 5 1,591 1 2 17 3,649
Optimal fiscal and monetary policy 0 1 6 1,280 0 2 10 2,737
Optimal fiscal and monetary policy: some recent results 0 0 0 597 0 0 3 1,702
Optimal fiscal policy in a business cycle model 0 0 1 752 0 1 5 2,177
Optimal fiscal policy in a business cycle model (technical appendix) 0 0 1 86 0 0 1 191
Optimal fiscal policy in a stochastic growth model (technical appendix) 0 0 0 80 0 1 1 191
Optimality of the Friedman Rule in Economies with Distorting Taxes 0 0 0 171 0 0 1 658
Optimality of the Friedman rule in economies with distorting taxes 0 0 0 491 0 0 3 1,202
Prizes and Patents: Using Market Signals to Provide Incentives for Innovations 0 0 0 72 0 1 2 141
Prizes and patents: using market signals to provide incentives for innovations 0 0 0 132 0 1 3 212
Ramsey Taxation in the Global Economy 1 1 2 71 1 1 2 123
Ramsey Taxation in the Global Economy 0 0 0 89 0 0 2 68
Ramsey Taxation in the Open Economy 1 1 3 69 1 1 4 85
Reforming the European Monetary Union 0 0 0 131 0 0 2 142
Reply to Solow 0 0 0 123 0 1 2 308
Rethinking Optimal Currency Areas 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 206
Seasonalities in security returns: the case of earnings announcements 0 0 1 319 1 1 6 885
Sophisticated Monetary Policies 0 0 0 164 0 0 2 452
Sophisticated monetary policies 0 0 0 167 0 1 3 416
Sophisticated monetary policies 0 0 0 222 1 1 7 687
Sticky Price Models of the Business Cycle: Can the Contract Multiplier Solve the Persistence Problem? 1 1 1 707 1 1 1 3,422
Sticky price models of the business cycle: can the contract multiplier solve the persistence problem? 0 0 1 1,038 0 0 2 3,182
Strategic Delegation in Monetary Unions 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 49
Strategic delegation in monetary unions 0 0 0 54 0 0 0 197
Sudden Stops and Output Drops 0 1 1 380 0 1 1 1,156
Sudden stops and output drops 0 0 0 102 0 0 1 452
Sustainable Plans 0 0 0 26 0 0 4 147
Sustainable plans 0 1 2 262 0 1 4 947
Sustainable plans and debt 0 0 0 217 0 0 1 624
Sustainable plans and mutual default 0 0 0 97 1 1 5 559
Taxation of Capital: Capital Levies and Commitment 0 1 7 19 1 6 20 29
The Hammer and the Scalpel: On the Economics of Indiscriminate versus Targeted Isolation Policies during Pandemics 0 0 0 12 0 0 1 32
The Hammer and the Scalpel: On the Economics of Indiscriminate versus Targeted Isolation Policies during Pandemics 0 0 0 11 1 1 2 58
The Heterogeneous State of Modern Macroeconomics: A Reply to Solow 0 0 1 243 0 1 2 617
The Optimal Extraction of Exhaustible Resources 1 1 5 73 1 4 15 255
The Poverty of Nations: A Quantitative Exploration 0 0 1 429 0 3 10 1,556
The Role of Uncertainty and Risk in Climate Change Economics 0 0 0 45 0 1 10 163
The \\"banks\\" we do need 0 0 0 3 0 1 3 25
The economics of split-ticket voting in representative democracies 0 0 0 69 0 1 1 653
The heterogeneous state of modern macroeconomics: a reply to Solow 0 0 0 203 0 0 0 460
The poverty of nations: a quantitative exploration 0 1 1 450 1 3 8 1,351
Thoughts on the Federal Reserve System's exit strategy 0 0 0 38 0 1 1 232
Time Consistency and Free-Riding in a Monetary Union 0 0 0 114 0 0 0 472
Time Inconsistency and Free-Riding in a Monetary Union 0 0 0 73 0 0 1 191
Time consistency and policy 0 0 5 601 0 1 7 1,290
Time inconsistency and free-riding in a monetary union 0 0 0 371 0 0 1 1,296
Too Correlated to Fail 2 2 2 53 2 3 4 59
What assets should banks be allowed to hold? 0 0 1 71 0 7 11 187
Why are representative democracies fiscally irresponsible? 0 0 0 141 0 1 3 623
Total Working Papers 14 31 111 30,104 45 139 546 99,668


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A reconsideration of the problem of social cost: Free riders and monopolists 0 0 1 420 0 1 3 2,694
Accounting for the Great Depression 0 0 1 155 0 4 6 625
Accounting for the Great Depression 0 0 0 225 1 1 4 831
Are structural VARs with long-run restrictions useful in developing business cycle theory? 2 3 13 668 4 9 43 1,844
Asking the right questions about the IMF 0 0 0 6 1 1 2 130
Bailouts, Time Inconsistency, and Optimal Regulation: A Macroeconomic View 2 2 3 54 4 5 12 329
Banking without deposit insurance or bank panics: lessons from a model of the U.S. national banking system 0 0 0 125 0 0 2 357
Business Cycle Accounting 1 3 25 1,123 2 6 60 2,777
Can Sticky Price Models Generate Volatile and Persistent Real Exchange Rates? 1 4 9 241 2 8 27 2,470
Comment 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 12
Comment on "Inflation Forecasts and Monetary Policy." 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 151
Comment on Private Money 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 131
Comment on: "An empirical analysis of the economic impact of federal terrorism reinsurance" 0 0 0 15 0 1 1 63
DISCUSSION OF HE, HUANG, AND WRIGHT'S "MONEY AND BANKING IN SEARCH EQUILIBRIUM" 0 0 0 31 0 0 0 142
Discussion of Growth and Foreign Direct Investment: Does Policy Play a Role? 0 0 0 13 0 0 0 67
Expectation Traps and Discretion 0 0 1 118 3 4 6 469
Expectation Traps and Monetary Policy 0 1 2 149 0 2 7 665
Financial crises as herds: overturning the critiques 0 0 4 230 0 0 7 749
Hot Money 0 0 2 435 0 3 13 1,705
How severe is the time-inconsistency problem in monetary policy? 0 0 0 133 0 0 4 571
How the U.S. Treasury should auction its debt 0 0 1 77 0 1 3 320
Hysteresis in unemployment - comments 0 0 0 37 0 0 0 122
Inflation, growth, and financial intermediation 0 0 0 17 0 1 2 64
Inflation, growth, and financial intermediation 1 1 2 128 1 1 2 271
Inside Money, Outside Money, and Short-Term Interest Rates 0 0 0 348 0 2 5 1,128
Inside money, outside money and short-term interest rates 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 1,318
International Coordination of Fiscal Policy in Limiting Economies 0 0 1 71 1 1 5 321
Labor Contracts in a Model of Imperfect Competition 0 0 1 44 0 0 4 226
Limits of Markets and Limits of Governments: An Introduction to a Symposium on Political Economy 0 0 0 32 0 0 0 98
Macroeconomic effects of fiscal policy A comment 0 0 0 6 0 0 1 30
Modern Macroeconomics in Practice: How Theory Is Shaping Policy 1 1 3 99 2 3 13 1,368
Modern macroeconomics in practice: how theory is shaping monetary policy 0 0 0 19 0 0 0 190
New Keynesian Models: Not Yet Useful for Policy Analysis 0 1 3 750 0 1 8 1,917
Nobel Laureate Robert E. Lucas, Jr.: Architect of Modern Macroeconomics 0 0 0 140 0 1 4 846
Nobel Laureate Robert E. Lucas, Jr.: Architect of Modern Macroeconomics 0 1 3 352 4 11 16 1,608
On the need for fiscal constraints in a monetary union 0 0 2 331 0 0 4 661
On the social usefulness of fractional reserve banking 0 0 2 84 0 0 11 370
Optimal Fiscal Policy in a Business Cycle Model 0 0 0 1,305 0 3 10 5,274
Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy: Some Recent Results 1 1 3 705 1 1 5 1,862
Optimal fiscal and monetary policy: some recent results 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 805
Optimality of the Friedman rule in economies with distorting taxes 0 0 1 237 0 1 4 636
Playing by the rules: a proposal for federal budget reform 0 0 2 13 0 0 3 87
Price Stability and Futures Trading in Commodities 0 0 0 86 0 0 0 337
Prizes and patents: Using market signals to provide incentives for innovations 0 0 1 38 0 0 7 220
Reputation and Persistence of Adverse Selection in Secondary Loan Markets 0 0 0 30 0 0 0 183
Sophisticated Monetary Policies 0 0 5 163 0 1 10 671
Sticky Price Models of the Business Cycle: Can the Contract Multiplier Solve the Persistence Problem? 0 0 0 7 0 3 9 2,032
Strategic Delegation in Monetary Unions 0 0 0 31 1 1 2 166
Sudden Stops and Output Drops 0 0 0 251 0 0 2 737
Sustainable Plans 0 2 5 755 0 5 14 2,090
Sustainable Plans and Debt 0 0 0 144 0 1 1 330
Sustainable Plans and Mutual Default 0 0 1 114 0 0 3 336
Taxing capital income: a bad idea 0 3 15 664 1 9 41 1,964
The Economics of Split-Ticket Voting in Representative Democracies 0 0 0 156 0 0 1 1,769
The Hammer and the Scalpel: On the Economics of Indiscriminate versus Targeted Isolation Policies during Pandemics 0 0 1 17 2 2 7 131
The growth effects of monetary policy 0 0 1 224 1 2 5 518
The simple analytics of commodity futures markets: do they stabilize prices? Do they raise welfare? 0 0 0 121 0 0 1 396
Time Inconsistency and Free-Riding in a Monetary Union 0 0 0 112 0 0 3 388
Time consistency and optimal policy design 0 0 1 256 0 0 4 670
Unemployment today in Europe and Japan: Lessons from the U.S. Great Depression 0 0 0 97 0 0 1 1,111
Vintage Human Capital, Growth, and the Diffusion of New Technology 2 6 21 755 2 11 39 1,994
Total Journal Articles 11 29 136 12,959 33 107 454 52,347


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Macroeconomist's Wish List of Financial Data 0 0 0 57 0 0 0 139
Accounting for Business Cycles 1 1 22 120 2 3 52 441
Comment on "Credit Market Freezes" 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 20
Comment on "Pledgability and Liquidity: A New Monetarist Model of Financial and Macroeconomic Activity" 0 0 1 14 0 1 2 43
Optimal fiscal and monetary policy 0 2 18 1,305 2 6 47 2,798
Total Chapters 1 3 41 1,497 4 10 102 3,441


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