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University of California, Berkeley
Department of Economics
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Working Papers

• A New Data Set on Monetary Policy: The Economic Forecasts of Individual Members of the FOMC [PDF], NBER Working Paper 15208, July 2009.
• The Macroeconomic Effects of Tax Changes: Estimates Based on a New Measure of Fiscal Shocks [PDF], with Christina D. Romer, April 2009. American Economic Review, forthcoming.
• Do Tax Cuts Starve the Beast? The Effect of Tax Changes on Government Spending [PDF], with Christina D. Romer, May 2009. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, forthcoming.
• A Narrative Analysis of Postwar Tax Changes [PDF], with Christina D. Romer, November 2008
• Comments on Michael Woodford, "Globalization and Monetary Control" [PDF], August 2007. Jordi Gali and Mark Gertler, eds. International Dimensions of Monetary Policy, forthcoming.

Reprints

• The FOMC versus the Staff: Where Can Monetary Policymakers Add Value? [PDF], with Christina D. Romer, American Economic Review, May 2008. Posted with the permission of the American Economic Association.
• Real Rigidities, In Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence Blume, eds., New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, second edition (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). Posted with permission of Palgrave Macmillan.
• Do Firms Maximize? Evidence from Professional Football [PDF], Journal of Political Economy, April 2006. Posted with the permission of the University of Chicago Press. Expanded version [PDF].
• A New Measure of Monetary Shocks: Derivation and Implications [PDF], with Christina D. Romer, American Economic Review, September 2004. Posted with the permission of the American Economic Association.
• Choosing the Federal Reserve Chair: Lessons from History [PDF], with Christina D. Romer, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2004. Posted with the permission of the American Economic Association.
• Inflation and the Informativeness of Prices [PDF], with L. Ball, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, April 2003. Posted with the permission of the Ohio State University Press.
• Misconceptions and Political Outcomes [PDF]. Economic Journal, January 2003. Posted with the permission of Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
• The Evolution of Economic Understanding and Postwar Stabilization Policy [PDF], with Christina D. Romer, in Rethinking Stabilization Policy, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, 2002.
• A Rehabilitation of Monetary Policy in the 1950's [PDF], with Christina D. Romer, American Economic Review, May 2002. Posted with the permission of the American Economic Association.
• Federal Reserve Information and the Behavior of Interest Rates [PDF], with Christina D. Romer, American Economic Review, June 2000. Posted with permission from the American Economic Association.
• Keynesian Macroeconomics without the LM Curve [PDF], Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2000. Posted with the permission of the American Economic Association.
• Does Trade Cause Growth? [PDF], with Jeffrey A. Frankel, American Economic Review, June 1999. Posted with the permission of the American Economic Association.

Lecture Notes

• Short-Run Fluctuations, August 1999. Revised January 2006. Paper [PDF] Figures [PDF]

Data

• A New Data Set on Monetary Policy: The Economic Forecasts of Individual Members of the FOMC, Data Appendix [Zip, 8.3 MB].
• The FOMC versus the Staff: Where Can Monetary Policymakers Add Value? Data Description [PDF]; Data [Excel].
• Do Firms Maximize? Evidence from Professional Football
  Data and programs [Zip files, 751 KB]
• A New Measure of Monetary Shocks: Derivation and Implications Data description [PDF]; Data [Excel]; Narrative appendix [PDF]
• Federal Reserve Information and the Behavior of Interest Rates Data description [PDF]; Data [Excel]
• Does Trade Cause Growth? Data description [PDF]; Data and programs [zip files, 395 KB]
• Romer and Romer dates [PDF]