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A Proposal to Eliminate the Distortions Caused by Bailouts 0 0 0 44 0 3 7 68
A contribution to the theory of pork barrel spending 0 0 4 359 2 4 15 2,340
A critique of structural VARs using real business cycle theory 0 0 4 438 9 21 39 1,983
A reconsideration of the problem of social cost: free riders and monopolists 0 1 1 380 3 5 10 1,520
Accounting for Business Cycles 0 1 1 151 2 4 7 214
Accounting for Business Cycles 0 0 0 86 1 5 7 198
Accounting for the Great Depression (technical appendix) 0 0 1 124 2 2 3 859
Adverse Selection, Reputation and Sudden Collapses in Secondary Loan Markets 0 0 0 80 1 4 6 327
Appendices: Business cycle accounting 0 1 1 467 2 5 6 919
Appendix for: Optimal Cooperative Taxation in the Global Economy 0 0 0 16 5 7 7 24
Are Structural VARs Useful Guides for Developing Business Cycle Theories? 0 0 0 228 3 5 7 453
Are Structural VARs with Long-Run Restrictions Useful in Developing Business Cycle Theory? 0 0 1 210 3 7 8 559
Are structural VARs with long-run restrictions useful in developing business cycle theory? 0 0 0 605 1 3 6 1,619
Bailouts, Time Inconsistency, and Optimal Regulation 0 0 0 90 2 2 2 223
Bailouts, Time Inconsistency, and Optimal Regulation 0 0 0 83 0 2 4 219
Bailouts, time inconsistency, and optimal regulation 0 0 0 60 8 12 14 200
Banking Panics 0 0 0 93 11 12 14 402
Business Cycle Accounting 0 0 4 336 1 3 14 1,436
Business Start-ups, the Lock-in Effect, and Capital Gains Taxation 0 0 2 27 1 2 7 152
Business cycle accounting 0 0 3 1,532 7 12 38 5,544
Business cycle accounting 0 0 1 36 1 7 14 607
Can Sticky Price Models Generate Volatile and Persistent Real Exchange Rates? 1 1 2 522 2 5 12 1,347
Can sticky price models generate volatile and persistent real exchange rates? 0 1 4 1,206 2 9 14 3,103
Can sticky price models generate volatile and persistent real exchange rates? 0 0 0 547 2 4 7 1,630
Comment on Iovino, La’O and Mascarenhas, “Optimal Monetary Policy and Disclosure with an Informationally-Constrained Central Banker” 0 0 0 4 1 2 4 12
Comparing alternative representations and alternative methodologies in business cycle accounting 0 0 1 122 2 3 5 316
Comparing alternative representations and alternative methodologies in business cycle accounting 0 0 3 152 1 5 10 391
Copyrights, Price Discrimination and Hidden Trading: Lessons from a Ricardian Theory of Innovation 0 0 0 3 0 1 1 129
Damage control? analyzing policies to repair credit markets 0 0 0 18 0 1 1 58
Efficiency and Adverse Selection: On the Desirability of Mutual Contracts 0 0 1 37 2 2 5 104
Equilibrium Contracts in a Monetary Economy 0 0 0 5 1 2 3 192
Expectation Traps and Discretion 0 0 1 139 2 2 4 1,161
Expectation Traps and Monetary Policy 0 0 0 178 0 1 3 759
Expectation Traps and Monetary Policy 0 0 0 266 5 11 14 809
Expectation Traps and Monetary Policy 0 0 0 41 2 10 13 395
Expectation traps and discretion 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 162
Expectation traps and monetary policy 0 0 0 136 0 9 12 479
Expectation traps and monetary policy 0 0 0 102 2 3 8 547
Expectations, traps and discretion 0 0 0 0 1 3 5 438
Facts and myths about the financial crisis of 2008 1 1 2 712 5 6 14 1,837
Financial Crises as Herds: Overturning the Critiques 0 0 0 224 0 5 8 640
Financial Repression: Evidence and Theory 1 2 12 224 4 8 38 598
Financial crises as herds 0 0 0 9 1 2 2 185
Financial crises as herds: overturning the critiques 0 0 1 358 0 1 3 1,067
Financialization in Commodity Markets 0 0 1 61 2 4 15 125
Financialization in Commodity Markets 0 0 1 53 1 2 4 69
Financialization in Commodity Markets 0 0 0 13 5 7 12 83
Hot Money 0 0 2 367 2 3 7 1,973
Hot money 0 0 1 566 4 5 10 2,001
How Severe is the Time Inconsistency Problem in Monetary Policy? 0 0 0 819 2 5 11 3,716
Inside Money, Outside Money and Short Term Interest Rates 0 0 0 677 0 3 6 3,550
Inside money, outside money and short term interest rates 0 0 0 1 1 4 6 1,005
International coordination of fiscal policy in limiting economies 0 0 1 88 1 4 5 512
Involuntary Unemployment and Implicit Contracts 0 0 0 47 2 3 5 235
Labor contracts in a model of imperfect competition 0 0 0 90 2 4 5 567
Layoffs and Unemployment Compensation as Social Instruments 0 0 0 4 2 2 2 287
Linear Stochastic Models with Decentralized Information 0 0 0 25 0 2 3 150
Matching Human Capital and Displacement 0 0 0 0 3 3 3 425
Modern Macroeconomics in Practice: How Theory is Shaping Policy 0 0 1 399 1 2 4 963
Modern macroeconomics in practice: how theory is shaping policy 0 0 3 549 1 1 7 1,440
Monetary Shocks and Real Exchange Rates in Sticky Price Models of International Business Cycles 0 0 0 809 0 1 1 2,590
Moral Hazard, Reputation, and Fragility in Credit Markets 0 0 0 0 4 12 16 254
More on the Optimal Taxation of Capital 0 0 1 95 1 3 5 163
New Keynesian Models: Not Yet Useful for Policy Analysis 0 0 0 663 2 3 10 1,732
New Keynesian models: not yet useful for policy analysis 0 1 1 358 8 11 15 750
New Keynesian models: not yet useful for policy analysis 0 0 0 154 2 6 10 546
On the Desirability of Fiscal Constraints in a Monetary Union 0 0 0 163 0 1 2 461
On the Efficiency of Competitive Equilibria with Pandemics 0 0 0 8 1 1 1 11
On the Efficiency of Competitive Equilibria with Pandemics 0 0 0 14 2 5 5 15
On the Ethics of Redistribution 0 2 5 46 2 8 13 98
On the Fragility of Reputation in Financial Markets 0 0 0 0 2 3 5 85
On the Job Training, Limited Commitment and Firing Costs 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 79
On the Optimal Choice of a Monetary Policy Instrument 0 0 0 171 3 5 7 464
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 3 4 7 268
On the optimal choice of a monetary policy instrument 0 0 0 229 4 6 11 614
On the robustness of herds 0 0 0 122 1 1 2 453
Optimal Capital Taxation Revisited 0 0 0 38 2 6 9 73
Optimal Capital Taxation Revisited 0 0 1 91 2 6 8 141
Optimal Cooperative Taxation in the Global Economy 1 1 1 56 4 6 6 126
Optimal Fiscal Policy in a Business Cycle Model 1 1 2 272 4 16 21 1,025
Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy 0 1 4 1,592 3 6 18 3,658
Optimal fiscal and monetary policy 0 2 10 1,286 3 11 24 2,754
Optimal fiscal and monetary policy: some recent results 0 0 0 597 0 3 4 1,705
Optimal fiscal policy in a business cycle model 0 0 1 752 0 2 4 2,179
Optimal fiscal policy in a business cycle model (technical appendix) 0 0 0 86 2 2 2 193
Optimal fiscal policy in a stochastic growth model (technical appendix) 0 0 0 80 2 4 6 196
Optimality of the Friedman Rule in Economies with Distorting Taxes 0 0 0 171 0 4 5 663
Optimality of the Friedman rule in economies with distorting taxes 0 0 0 491 4 7 11 1,211
Prizes and Patents: Using Market Signals to Provide Incentives for Innovations 0 0 0 72 3 8 11 150
Prizes and patents: using market signals to provide incentives for innovations 0 0 0 132 3 3 4 215
Ramsey Taxation in the Global Economy 0 0 0 89 2 3 5 73
Ramsey Taxation in the Global Economy 0 0 1 71 2 5 6 128
Ramsey Taxation in the Open Economy 0 0 1 69 2 2 3 87
Reforming the European Monetary Union 0 0 0 131 3 4 5 147
Reply to Solow 0 0 0 123 2 5 7 313
Rethinking Optimal Currency Areas 0 0 0 0 2 5 5 211
Seasonalities in security returns: the case of earnings announcements 0 0 0 319 0 2 5 888
Sophisticated Monetary Policies 0 0 0 164 2 3 4 455
Sophisticated monetary policies 0 0 0 167 3 5 8 422
Sophisticated monetary policies 0 0 0 222 0 1 5 689
Sticky Price Models of the Business Cycle: Can the Contract Multiplier Solve the Persistence Problem? 0 1 3 709 3 6 10 3,431
Sticky price models of the business cycle: can the contract multiplier solve the persistence problem? 0 0 1 1,039 0 6 9 3,190
Strategic Delegation in Monetary Unions 0 0 0 6 1 2 2 51
Strategic delegation in monetary unions 0 0 0 54 0 3 5 202
Sudden Stops and Output Drops 0 0 2 381 3 5 7 1,162
Sudden stops and output drops 0 0 0 102 0 4 6 458
Sustainable Plans 0 0 0 26 1 4 6 151
Sustainable plans 0 0 1 262 1 6 9 955
Sustainable plans and debt 0 0 0 217 1 2 2 626
Sustainable plans and mutual default 0 0 0 97 4 6 11 566
Taxation of Capital: Capital Levies and Commitment 1 1 3 20 3 8 22 41
The Hammer and the Scalpel: On the Economics of Indiscriminate versus Targeted Isolation Policies during Pandemics 0 0 0 11 0 1 3 59
The Hammer and the Scalpel: On the Economics of Indiscriminate versus Targeted Isolation Policies during Pandemics 0 0 0 12 1 2 4 35
The Heterogeneous State of Modern Macroeconomics: A Reply to Solow 0 0 0 243 1 3 5 621
The Optimal Extraction of Exhaustible Resources 1 2 4 75 4 6 13 261
The Poverty of Nations: A Quantitative Exploration 0 0 0 429 2 4 8 1,560
The Role of Uncertainty and Risk in Climate Change Economics 0 0 0 45 2 3 13 170
The \\"banks\\" we do need 0 1 1 4 2 4 6 29
The economics of split-ticket voting in representative democracies 0 0 0 69 3 3 6 658
The heterogeneous state of modern macroeconomics: a reply to Solow 0 0 0 203 2 2 6 466
The poverty of nations: a quantitative exploration 0 0 1 450 1 2 11 1,356
Thoughts on the Federal Reserve System's exit strategy 0 0 0 38 0 0 1 232
Time Consistency and Free-Riding in a Monetary Union 0 0 0 114 1 4 4 476
Time Inconsistency and Free-Riding in a Monetary Union 0 0 0 73 1 2 4 195
Time consistency and policy 1 1 2 603 1 4 8 1,297
Time inconsistency and free-riding in a monetary union 0 0 0 371 1 4 5 1,301
Too Correlated to Fail 0 0 2 53 2 4 8 64
What assets should banks be allowed to hold? 0 0 1 71 1 3 12 190
Why are representative democracies fiscally irresponsible? 0 0 0 141 1 1 4 625
Total Working Papers 8 22 109 30,157 259 572 1,037 100,425


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A reconsideration of the problem of social cost: Free riders and monopolists 0 0 0 420 2 10 16 2,709
Accounting for the Great Depression 0 0 1 155 2 6 12 632
Accounting for the Great Depression 0 0 0 225 0 4 9 836
Are structural VARs with long-run restrictions useful in developing business cycle theory? 1 1 8 671 2 5 27 1,856
Asking the right questions about the IMF 0 0 0 6 0 1 2 131
Bailouts, Time Inconsistency, and Optimal Regulation: A Macroeconomic View 0 0 2 54 0 3 12 334
Banking without deposit insurance or bank panics: lessons from a model of the U.S. national banking system 0 0 0 125 4 7 7 364
Business Cycle Accounting 1 5 16 1,133 6 20 55 2,814
Can Sticky Price Models Generate Volatile and Persistent Real Exchange Rates? 0 0 10 243 3 5 46 2,499
Comment 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 12
Comment on "Inflation Forecasts and Monetary Policy." 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 151
Comment on Private Money 0 0 0 0 2 3 5 135
Comment on: "An empirical analysis of the economic impact of federal terrorism reinsurance" 0 0 0 15 1 2 4 66
DISCUSSION OF HE, HUANG, AND WRIGHT'S "MONEY AND BANKING IN SEARCH EQUILIBRIUM" 0 0 0 31 2 3 3 145
Discussion of Growth and Foreign Direct Investment: Does Policy Play a Role? 0 0 0 13 0 2 2 69
Expectation Traps and Discretion 0 0 0 118 1 2 6 471
Expectation Traps and Monetary Policy 0 0 1 149 0 2 8 670
Financial crises as herds: overturning the critiques 0 0 1 230 1 2 5 751
Hot Money 0 0 1 436 2 5 14 1,713
How severe is the time-inconsistency problem in monetary policy? 0 0 0 133 2 6 9 579
How the U.S. Treasury should auction its debt 0 0 2 78 2 3 7 325
Hysteresis in unemployment - comments 0 0 0 37 0 2 6 128
Inflation, growth, and financial intermediation 0 0 0 17 0 1 3 66
Inflation, growth, and financial intermediation 0 0 2 128 3 6 9 278
Inside Money, Outside Money, and Short-Term Interest Rates 0 0 0 348 3 3 7 1,132
Inside money, outside money and short-term interest rates 0 0 0 0 1 3 7 1,324
International Coordination of Fiscal Policy in Limiting Economies 0 0 0 71 1 1 4 323
Labor Contracts in a Model of Imperfect Competition 0 0 1 44 0 2 6 230
Limits of Markets and Limits of Governments: An Introduction to a Symposium on Political Economy 0 0 1 33 0 1 5 103
Macroeconomic effects of fiscal policy A comment 0 0 0 6 0 1 3 32
Modern Macroeconomics in Practice: How Theory Is Shaping Policy 0 0 2 100 3 8 19 1,381
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 0 2 750 0 5 15 1,928
Nobel Laureate Robert E. Lucas, Jr.: Architect of Modern Macroeconomics 0 0 3 354 1 4 20 1,617
Nobel Laureate Robert E. Lucas, Jr.: Architect of Modern Macroeconomics 0 0 0 140 0 2 7 850
On the need for fiscal constraints in a monetary union 0 0 3 332 2 11 16 673
On the social usefulness of fractional reserve banking 0 0 1 84 5 11 20 388
Optimal Fiscal Policy in a Business Cycle Model 1 2 4 1,309 5 15 25 5,295
Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy: Some Recent Results 0 0 3 706 1 4 7 1,867
Optimal fiscal and monetary policy: some recent results 0 0 0 1 2 2 5 810
Optimality of the Friedman rule in economies with distorting taxes 0 0 0 237 0 1 3 638
Playing by the rules: a proposal for federal budget reform 0 0 0 13 0 0 1 87
Price Stability and Futures Trading in Commodities 0 0 0 86 2 2 3 340
Prizes and patents: Using market signals to provide incentives for innovations 0 0 0 38 3 4 5 225
Reputation and Persistence of Adverse Selection in Secondary Loan Markets 0 0 1 31 2 5 6 189
Sophisticated Monetary Policies 0 1 5 165 1 4 16 680
Sticky Price Models of the Business Cycle: Can the Contract Multiplier Solve the Persistence Problem? 0 0 0 7 4 16 23 2,051
Strategic Delegation in Monetary Unions 0 0 0 31 1 3 7 171
Sudden Stops and Output Drops 0 0 0 251 2 7 10 746
Sustainable Plans 0 0 3 756 1 5 17 2,101
Sustainable Plans and Debt 0 0 0 144 0 0 1 330
Sustainable Plans and Mutual Default 0 0 0 114 4 7 10 346
Taxing capital income: a bad idea 0 0 7 665 6 15 39 1,986
The Economics of Split-Ticket Voting in Representative Democracies 0 0 0 156 3 4 6 1,775
The Hammer and the Scalpel: On the Economics of Indiscriminate versus Targeted Isolation Policies during Pandemics 0 0 1 17 1 3 8 135
The growth effects of monetary policy 0 0 1 224 1 2 5 520
The simple analytics of commodity futures markets: do they stabilize prices? Do they raise welfare? 0 0 0 121 1 3 4 400
Time Inconsistency and Free-Riding in a Monetary Union 0 0 0 112 2 3 5 393
Time consistency and optimal policy design 0 0 0 256 0 0 3 673
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 0 1 22 766 3 8 43 2,016
Total Journal Articles 3 10 104 13,002 96 265 649 52,790


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A Macroeconomist's Wish List of Financial Data 0 0 0 57 0 3 3 142
Accounting for Business Cycles 0 1 5 122 3 12 23 457
Comment on "Credit Market Freezes" 0 0 0 1 3 7 9 29
Comment on "Pledgability and Liquidity: A New Monetarist Model of Financial and Macroeconomic Activity" 0 0 0 14 2 3 4 46
Optimal fiscal and monetary policy 0 4 17 1,313 8 23 54 2,830
Total Chapters 0 5 22 1,507 16 48 93 3,504


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