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Current Research

“Time-Consistency of Government Policy in Monetary Economies” (June 2010). Coming soon.

"Government Policy and Aggregate Fluctuations" (May 2010). Preliminary.

"Money and Capital as Competing Media of Exchange in a News Economy" (September 2009), joint with David Andolfatto.

"Debt, Inflation and Central Bank Independence" (May 2009). Related news article links.

"Time-Consistent Debt" (October 2006), joint with Per Krusell and José-Víctor Ríos-Rull. A presentation is available here.

Papers submitted

"Government Policy Response to War-Expenditure Shocks" (October 2011), revise and resubmit, The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics.

"Government Policy in Monetary Economies" (September 2011), revise and resubmit, International Economic Review.

"Dynamic Optimal Insurance and Lack of Commitment'' (August 2011), joint with Alex Karaivanov, revise and resubmit, Review of Economic Dynamics.

"Moral Hazard and Lack of Commitment in Dynamic Economies" (August 2011), joint with Alex Karaivanov.

"Policy and Welfare Effects of Within-Period Commitment" (December 2009), revise and resubmit, Macroeconomic Dynamics.

Publications

"On the Joint Determination of Fiscal and Monetary Policy" (2011), Journal of Monetary Economics, 58(2), 132-145.

"Markov-Perfect Capital and Labor Taxes" (2010), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 34(3), 503-521.

"A Positive Theory of Government Debt" (2009), Review of Economic Dynamics, 12(4), 608-631.

"Financiaciones por Actividad Económica" (1999), Banco Central de la República Argentina, Nota Técnica Nro. 5.

Other work

"Money, Capital and Collateral" (August 2007), joint with David Andolfatto. A preliminary version can be found here.

Previous Courses at SFU

ECON 210: Money and Banking

ECON 301: Intermediate Microeconomic Theory I: Competitive Behaviour

ECON 387: Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory II

ECON 403: Advanced Macroeconomic Theory (undergraduate)

ECON 410: Seminar in Monetary Theory

ECON 809: Advanced Macroeconomic Theory (graduate)

Links

IDEAS, a bibliographic database dedicated to economics.
RePEc, Research Papers in Economics.
SSRN, Social Science Research Network.
EconWPA, Economics Working Paper Archive, dedicated to the free distribution of working papers in economics.
StatCounter, free and invisible web tracker, hit counter and web stats.
A good introduction to Fortran.

The SnaFU Awards.

Some People

David Andolfatto
Alex Karaivanov
Per Krusell
Paul Klein
José-Víctor Ríos-Rull
Jesús Fernández-Villaverde
Randy Wright

Last modified: October 11, 2011.