DAVID ROMER Herman Royer Professor of Political Economy
Mailing Address:
Tel No. (510) 642-1785
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Working Papers
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 Daron
Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, Pablo Querubin, and James A. Robinson, "When Does
Policy Reform Work? The Case of Central Bank Independence" [PDF], June
2008. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 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
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.
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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