Econ 500 reading list

Jones, Charles I.  2002.  "Using Chain-Weighted NIPA Data."  FRBSF Economic Letter (2002-22, Aug. 2).

Steindel, Charles.  1995.  "Chain-Weighting:  The New Approach to Measuring GDP." FRBNY Current Issues in Economics and Finance, Vol. 1, No. 9 (December).

Pakko, Michael R.  1997.  "The Business Cycle and Chain-Weighted GDP: Has Our Perspective Changed?" Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, (Sept./Oct).

U.S. Department of Commerce.  1984.  "An Introduction to National Economic Accounting" Methodology Paper Series (MP-1)

U.S. Department of Commerce. 2006.  "Guide to the National Income and Product Accounts of the United States"

Prescott, Edward C.  1986.  "Theory Ahead of Business Cycle Measurement."  Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Quarterly Review, Vol. 10, No. 4, (Fall).

Colander, David.  1995.  "The Stories We Tell:  A Reconsideration of AS/AD Analysis."  Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 9, No. 3 (Summer), 169-188. (Available on JSTOR)

Solow, Robert.  2005.  "How did economics get that way and what way did it get?" Daedalus Vol. 134, No. 4 (Fall), 87-100.

Hicks, J.R. "Mr. Keynes and the "Classics"; A Suggested Interpretation"  Econometrica, Vol. 5, No. 2. (Apr., 1937), pp. 147-159.

Sims, Christopher.  1986.  "Are Forecasting Models Usable for Policy Analysis?  Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Quarterly Review, Vol. 10 (Winter), 2-16.

Dixit, Avinash, and Joseph Stiglitz.  1977. "Monopolistic Competition and Optimum Product Diversity."  American Economic Review, Vol. 67, No. 3 (June), 297-308.

Blanchard, Oliver, and Nobuhiro Kiyotaki.  1987.  "Monopolistic Competition and the Effects of Aggregate Demand."  American Economic Review, Vol. 77, No. 4 (Sept.), 647-666.

Cooper, Russell, and Andrew John.  1988.  "Coordinating Coordination Failures in  Keynesian Models."  Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 103, No. 3 (August), 441-463.

Hall, Robert.  1978.  "Stochastic Implications of the Life Cycle-Permanent Income Hypothesis:  Theory and Evidence."  Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 86, No. 6 (December), 971-987.

Kocherlakota, Narayana.  1996.  "The Equity Premium:  It's Still a Puzzle."  Journal of Economic Literature, Vol XXIV (March), 42-71.

Lucas, Robert.  1978.  "Asset Prices in an Exchange Economy."  Econometrica, Vol. 46, No. 6, 1429-1445.

Bernanke, Ben and Gertler, Mark.  1989.  "Agency Costs, Net Worth, and Business Fluctuations."  American Economic Review Vol. 79.  No. 1 (Mar.), 14-31.

Kydland, Finn and Prescott, Edward.  1977.  "Rules Rather than Discretion:  The Inconsistency of Optimal Plans."  Journal of Political Economy  Vol. 85 (June), 473-492.

Barro, Robert.  1974.  "Are Government Bonds Net Wealth?"  Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 82 (Nov./Dec.), 1095-1117.

Poole, William.  1970.  "Optimal Choice of Monetary Policy Instruments in a Simple Stochastic Macro Model."  Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 84, No. 2, 197-216.