Publications

2016
Chapter

Authority and Expertise at the Origins of Macroeconomics

By: Sophus A. Reinert

2006
Working Paper

Male Circumcision and AIDS: The Macroeconomic Impact of a Health Crisis

By: Amrita Ahuja, Brian Wendell and Eric D. Werker

Theories abound on the potential macroeconomic impact of AIDS in Africa, yet there have been surprisingly few empirical studies to test the mixed theoretical predictions. In this paper, we examine the impact of the AIDS epidemic on African nations through 2005 using... View Details

Keywords: Macroeconomics; Health Disorders; Welfare or Wellbeing; Poverty; Research; Education; Nutrition; Risk Management; Africa

01 Nov 2006
Working Paper Summaries

Male Circumcision and AIDS: The Macroeconomic Impact of a Health Crisis

Keywords: by Eric D. Werker, Amrita Ahuja & Brian Wendell

1984
Chapter

Macroeconomics and Finance: The Role of the Stock Market

By: Stanley Fischer and Robert C. Merton

Keywords: Macroeconomics; Financial Markets

December 2003 (Revised April 2005)
Case

Birth of Modern Macroeconomic Policy, The: Sweden and the Great Depression

By: Julio J. Rotemberg and Lisa Lewis

By early 1937, a debate over the proper conduct of monetary policy raged in Sweden. Sweden's response to the Great Depression was unique. It had, in particular, embraced a revolutionary goal for monetary policy when it abandoned the gold standard in 1931. View Details

Keywords: History; Money; Policy; Financial Crisis; Macroeconomics; Sweden

March 2002
Teaching Note

U.S. in 2001, The: Macroeconomic Policy and the New Economy TN

By: Huw Pill

Teaching Note for (9-701-113). View Details

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May 1984
Article

Interpreting the Statistical Failures of Some Rational Expectations Macroeconomic Models

By: J. J. Rotemberg

Keywords: Macroeconomics

Forthcoming
Chapter

Oil, Macroeconomic Volatility and Crime in the Determination of Beliefs in Venezuela

By: Rafael Di Tella, Javier Donna and Robert MacCulloch

Book Abstract: At the beginning of the twentieth century Venezuela had one of the poorest economies in Latin America, but by 1970 it had become the richest country in the region and one of the twenty richest countries in the world, ahead of countries such as Greece,... View Details

Keywords: Macroeconomics; Volatility; Crime and Corruption; Values and Beliefs; Non-Renewable Energy; Energy Industry; Venezuela

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January 2004
Supplement

Macroeconomic Policy and the State of the U.S. Economy, 2003

By: David A. Moss

Keywords: Macroeconomics; Economy; United States

Research Summary

Overview

I am interested in modeling learning and information processing in behavioral agents, and its financial and macroeconomic implications. View Details

Keywords: Finance; Behavioral Economics; Macroeconomics

1998
Chapter

Wage Bargaining, Labour Markets and Macroeconomic Performance in the Netherlands

By: Gunnar Trumbull, Anne Wren, Bob Hancke and David Soskice

Keywords: Labor and Management Relations; Macroeconomics; Performance; Netherlands

January 2004
Case

Macroeconomic Policy and the State of the U.S. Economy, 2003

By: David A. Moss

Based on excerpts from Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on July 16, 2003, as well as economic data that were available to Chairman Greenspan at the time. Taken together, the text... View Details

Keywords: Macroeconomics; Banks and Banking; Policy; Housing; Analytics and Data Science; Problems and Challenges; Urban Development; United States

Educators

July 2004
Teaching Note

Birth of Modern Macroeconomic Policy, The: Sweden and the Great Depression (TN)

By: Julio J. Rotemberg

Teaching Note to (9-704-029). View Details

Keywords: Sweden

1996
Thesis

Limits on Interest Rate Rules in Macroeconomic Models Governed by Price Stickiness and Rational Expectations

By: William R. Kerr

Keywords: Interest Rates; Macroeconomics; Mathematical Methods