DAVID ROMER Herman Royer Professor of Political Economy
Mailing Address:
Tel No. (510) 642-1785
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Working Papers
The FOMC
versus the Staff: Where Can Monetary
Policymakers Add Value? [PDF], January 2008.
Do Tax Cuts Starve the Beast? The Effect of Tax Changes on Government
Spending
[PDF], April 2008
The Macroeconomic Effects of Tax Changes: Estimates Based on a New
Measure of Fiscal Shocks [PDF], April 2008
A Narrative Analysis of Postwar Tax Changes
[PDF], April 2008
Real Rigidities [PDF], May 2007. New Palgrave Dictionary
of Economics, second edition, forthcoming.
Comments on Michael Woodford, "Globalization and Monetary Control"
[PDF], August 2007. Jordi Gali and Mark Gertler, eds. International Dimensions
of Monetary Policy, forthcoming.
Reprints
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.
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