Romer, Christina D.

Mailing Address: University of California, Berkeley Department of Economics 549 Evans Hall # 3880 Berkeley, CA 94720-3880

Fields: Economic history, macroeconomics

Past Research Topics: Business cycles in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; reliability of historical macroeconomic data; causes of the Great Depression; effects of monetary policy; the monetary transmission mechanism.

Current Research Topics: Identification of monetary shocks; monetary policy in Japan; monetary policy and the gold standard in the Great Depression.

Additional Interests: General empirical macroeconomics; monetary economics, all aspects of economic history; current economic conditions.

Home Page: http://elsa.berkeley.edu/~cromer/index.html

Email Address: cromer@econ.Berkeley.EDU