Reading Assignments, Spring 2017

• Are Technology Improvements Contractionary?

• The Medium-Run Natural Interest Rate and the Short-Run Natural Interest Rate

• On the Great Recession

• Sticky Prices vs. Sticky Wages: A Debate Between Miles Kimball and Matthew Rognlie

• Cognitive Economics

• Why I am a Macroeconomist: Increasing Returns and Unemployment

• The Share Economy

• The Unavoidability of Faith

• Miles’s Business Cycle Analytics Textbook Draft: read chapter on sticky prices

• "Q-Theory and Real Business Cycle Analytics”

• The Medium-Run Natural Interest Rate and the Short-Run Natural Interest Rate

• Monetary Policy and Financial Stability

• Larry Summers Just Confirmed that He is Still a Heavyweight on Economic Policy

• Janet Yellen is Hardly a Dove–She Knows the US Economy Needs Some Unemployment

• Off the Rails: How to Get the Recovery Back on Track

• The Neomonetarist Perspective

• The Deep Magic of Money and the Deeper Magic of the Supply Side

• How and Why to Eliminate the Zero Lower Bound: A Reader’s Guide: Read the two papers linked there, watch the 5-minute video and read the actual paragraphs at the bottom of the post. I will present “18 Misconceptions about Eliminating the Zero Lower Bound” in class.