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July 2008 (Vol. 32 No. 1)

• If Exchange Rates Are Random Walks, Then Almost Everything We Say About Monetary Policy Is Wrong

Fernando Alvarez, Andrew Atkeson, and Patrick J. Kehoe
Reprinted From: AEA Papers and Proceedings (Vol. 97, May 2007, pp. 339-345)
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• Back to the Future with Keynes

Lee E. Ohanian
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November 2007 (Vol. 31 No. 1)

• On the Needed Quantity of Government Debt

Kathryn Birkeland and Edward C. Prescott
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• Modeling Great Depressions: The Depression in Finland in the 1990s

Juan Carlos Conesa, Timothy J. Kehoe, and Kim J. Ruhl
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September 2006 (Vol. 30 No. 1)

• Latin America in the Rearview Mirror

Harold L. Cole, Lee E. Ohanian, Alvaro Riascos, and James A. Schmitz, Jr.
Reprinted From: Journal of Monetary Economics (Vol. 52, No. 1, January 2005, pp. 69-107)
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• Early State Banks in the United States: How Many Were There and Where Did They Exist?

Warren E. Weber
Reprinted From: Journal of Economic History (Vol. 66, No. 2, June 2006, pp. 433-455)
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October 2005 (Vol. 29 No. 1)

• Introduction to “Models of Monetary Economies II: The Next Generation”

Randall Wright
Reprinted From: International Economic Review (Vol. 46, No. 2, May 2005, pp. 305-316)
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• Optimal Monetary Policy: What We Know and What We Don’t Know

Narayana R. Kocherlakota
Reprinted From: International Economic Review (Vol. 46, No. 2, May 2005, pp. 715-729)
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December 2004 (Vol. 28 No. 2)

• Avoiding Significant Monetary Policy Mistakes

Preston J. Miller and Gary H. Stern
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• The Evolution of U.S. Earnings Inequality: 1961–2002

Zvi Eckstein and Éva Nagypál
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July 2004 (Vol. 28 No. 1)

• Why Do Americans Work So Much More Than Europeans?

Edward C. Prescott
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• Changes in Hours Worked, 1950–2000

Ellen R. McGrattan and Richard Rogerson
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Summer 2003 (Vol. 27 No. 3)

• Interbank Payments Relationships in the Antebellum United States: Evidence From Pennsylvania

Warren E. Weber
Reprinted From: Journal of Monetary Economics (Vol. 50, No. 2, March 2003, pp. 455-474)
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• How Severe is the Time-Inconsistency Problem in Monetary Policy?

Stefania Albanesi, V. V. Chari, and Lawrence J. Christiano
Reprinted From: Advances in economics and econometrics: Theory and applications (Vol. 3, 2003, pp. 123-150)
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Spring 2003 (Vol. 27 No. 2)

• Accounting for the Great Depression

V. V. Chari, Patrick J. Kehoe, and Ellen R. McGrattan
Reprinted From: American Economic Review (Vol. 92, No. 2, May 2002, pp. 22-27)
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• Competitive Pressure and Labor Productivity: World Iron Ore Markets in the 1980s

Jose E. Galdon-Sanchez and James A. Schmitz, Jr.
Reprinted From: American Economic Review (Vol. 92, No. 4, September 2002, pp. 1222-1235)
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Winter 2003 (Vol. 27 No. 1)

• Sticky Prices and Monetary Policy Shocks

Mark Bils, Peter J. Klenow, and Oleksiy Kryvtsov
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• Measuring Consumption Growth: The Impact of New and Better Products

Peter J. Klenow
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Fall 2002 (Vol. 26 No. 4)

Reprint:

• Money and Inflation in Colonial Massachusetts

Bruce D. Smith
Originally published in Quarterly Review Winter 1984
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• The Relationship Between Money and Prices: Some Historical Evidence Reconsidered

Bruce D. Smith
Originally published in Quarterly Review Summer 1988
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• Lessons From a Laissez-Faire Payments System: The Suffolk Banking System (1825–58)

Arthur J. Rolnick, Bruce D. Smith, and Warren E. Weber
Originally published in Quarterly Review Summer 1998
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• The Published Work of Bruce D. Smith


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Summer 2002 (Vol. 26 No. 3)

• Updated Facts on the U.S. Distributions of Earnings, Income, and Wealth

Javier Díaz-Giménez, Vincenzo Quadrini, José-Víctor Ríos-Rull, and Santiago Budría Rodríguez
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Spring 2002 (Vol. 26 No. 2)

• Inequality and Fairness

Christopher Phelan
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• Why Did Productivity Fall So Much During the Great Depression?

Lee E. Ohanian
Reprinted From: American Economic Review (Vol. 91, No. 2, May 2001, pp. 34-38)
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Winter 2002 (Vol. 26 No. 1)

• Decades Lost and Found: Mexico and Chile Since 1980

Raphael Bergoeing, Patrick J. Kehoe, Timothy J. Kehoe, and Raimundo Soto
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Fall 2001 (Vol. 25 No. 4)

• Money and Interest Rates

Cyril Monnet and Warren E. Weber
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• Some Monetary Facts

George T. McCandless Jr. and Warren E. Weber
Originally published in Quarterly Review Summer 1995
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Summer 2001 (Vol. 25 No. 3)

• Dollarization and the Conquest of Hyperinflation in Divided Societies

Russell Cooper and Hubert Kempf
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• Looking for Evidence of Time-Inconsistent Preferences in Asset Market Data

Narayana R. Kocherlakota
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Spring 2001 (Vol. 25 No. 2)

• Competition at Work: Railroads vs. Monopoly in the U.S. Shipping Industry

Thomas J. Holmes and James A. Schmitz, Jr.
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Winter 2001 (Vol. 25 No. 1)

• Are Phillips Curves Useful for Forecasting Inflation?

Andrew Atkeson and Lee E. Ohanian
[Article available on-line as PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file or PostScript file]

• Thoughts on the Fed’s Role in the Payments System

Edward J. Green and Richard M. Todd
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Fall 2000 (Vol. 24 No. 4)

• The Declining U.S. Equity Premium

Ravi Jagannathan, Ellen R. McGrattan, and Anna Scherbina
[Article available on-line as PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file or PostScript file]

• Is the Stock Market Overvalued?

Ellen R. McGrattan and Edward C. Prescott
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Summer 2000 (Vol. 24 No. 3)

• Creating Business Cycles Through Credit Constraints

Narayana R. Kocherlakota
[Article available on-line as PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file or PostScript file]

• Knowledge of Individual Histories and Optimal Payment Arrangements

Neil Wallace
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Spring 2000 (Vol. 24 No. 2)

• The Suffolk Bank and the Panic of 1837

Arthur J. Rolnick, Bruce D. Smith, and Warren E. Weber
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• Learning to Be Unpredictable: An Experimental Study

Arijit Mukherji and David E. Runkle
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Winter 2000 (Vol. 24 No. 1)

• Diamond and Dybvig’s Classic Theory of Financial Intermediation: What’s Missing?

Edward J. Green and Ping Lin
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• Bank Runs, Deposit Insurance, and Liquidity

Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig
Reprinted From: Journal of Political Economy (Vol. 91, No. 3, 1983, pp. 401-419)
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Fall 1999 (Vol. 23 No. 4)

• Maintenance and Repair: Too Big to Ignore

Ellen R. McGrattan and James A. Schmitz, Jr.
[Article available on-line as PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file or PostScript file]

• Explaining the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level

Narayana R. Kocherlakota and Christopher Phelan
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Summer 1999 (Vol. 23 No. 3)

• Taxing Capital Income: A Bad Idea

Andrew Atkeson, V. V. Chari, and Patrick J. Kehoe
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• Aggregate Returns to Scale: Why Measurement Is Imprecise

Harold L. Cole and Lee E. Ohanian
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Spring 1999 (Vol. 23 No. 2)

• Nobel Laureate Robert E. Lucas, Jr.: Architect of Modern Macroeconomics

V. V. Chari
Reprinted From: Journal of Economic Perspectives (Vol. 12, No. 1, Winter 1998, pp. 171-186)
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• Money and Debt in the Structure of Payments

Edward J. Green
Reprinted From: Monetary and Economic Studies (Vol. 15, No. 1, May 1997, pp. 63-87)
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Winter 1999 (Vol. 23 No. 1)

• The Great Depression in the United States From A Neoclassical Perspective

Harold L. Cole and Lee E. Ohanian
[Article available on-line as PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file or PostScript file]

• Some Observations on the Great Depression

Edward C. Prescott
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Fall 1998 (Vol. 22 No. 4)

• Revisionist History: How Data Revisions Distort Economic Policy Research

David E. Runkle
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• A Defense of AK Growth Models

Ellen R. McGrattan
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Summer 1998 (Vol. 22 No. 3)

• The Technological Role of Fiat Money

Narayana R. Kocherlakota
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• Lessons From a Laissez-Faire Payments System: The Suffolk Banking System (1825–58)

Arthur J. Rolnick, Bruce D. Smith, and Warren E. Weber
Reprinted From: St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank's Review (Vol. 80, No. 3, May/June 1998, pp. 105-116)
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Spring 1998 (Vol. 22 No. 2)

• Zero Nominal Interest Rates: Why They’re Good and How to Get Them

Harold L. Cole and Narayana R. Kocherlakota
[Article available on-line as PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file or PostScript file]

• Money, Inflation, and Output Under Fiat and Commodity Standards

Arthur J. Rolnick and Warren E. Weber
Reprinted From: Journal of Political Economy (Vol. 105, No. 6, December 1997, pp. 1308-1321)
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Winter 1998 (Vol. 22 No. 1)

• Changes in Hours Worked Since 1950

Ellen R. McGrattan and Richard Rogerson
[Article available on-line as PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file or PostScript file]
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• A Dictum for Monetary Theory

Neil Wallace
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Fall 1997 (Vol. 21 No. 4)

• Money

James Madison
Reprinted From: The Papers of James Madison (Vol. 1, 16 March 1751-16 December 1779, 1962, pp. 301-310)
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• The Debasement Puzzle: An Essay on Medieval Monetary History

Arthur J. Rolnick, François R. Velde, and Warren E. Weber
Reprinted From: Journal of Economic History (Vol. 56, No. 4, December 1996, pp. 789-808)
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Summer 1997 (Vol. 21 No. 3)

• S. Rao Aiyagari: My Student and My Teacher

Neil Wallace
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Reprint:

• Deflating the Case for Zero Inflation

S. Rao Aiyagari
Originally published in Quarterly Review Summer 1990
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• On the Contribution of Technology Shocks to Business Cycles

S. Rao Aiyagari
Originally published in Quarterly Review Winter 1994
[Article available on-line as PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file or PostScript file]

• Macroeconomics With Frictions

S. Rao Aiyagari
Originally published in Quarterly Review Summer 1994
[Article available on-line as PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file or PostScript file]

• The Published Work of S. Rao Aiyagari


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Spring 1997 (Vol. 21 No. 2)

• Dimensions of Inequality: Facts on the U.S. Distributions of Earnings, Income, and Wealth

Javier Díaz-Giménez, Vincenzo Quadrini, and José-Víctor Ríos-Rull
[Article available on-line as PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file or PostScript file]

• Understanding the U.S. Distribution of Wealth

Vincenzo Quadrini and José-Víctor Ríos-Rull
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Winter 1997 (Vol. 21 No. 1)

• Absence-of-Double-Coincidence Models of Money: A Progress Report

Neil Wallace
[Article available on-line as PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file or PostScript file]

• Reviving Reputation Models of International Debt

Harold L. Cole and Patrick J. Kehoe
[Article available on-line as PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file or PostScript file]

Fall 1996 (Vol. 20 No. 4)

• Are Checks Overused?

Kirstin E. Wells
[Article available on-line as PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file or PostScript file]

• Delayed Financial Disclosure: Mexico's Recent Experience

R. Anton Braun, Arijit Mukherji, and David E. Runkle
[Article available on-line as PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file or PostScript file]

Summer 1996 (Vol. 20 No. 3)

• Will the New $100 Bill Decrease Counterfeiting?

Edward J. Green and Warren E. Weber
[Article available on-line as PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file or PostScript file]

• Why Should Older People Invest Less in Stocks Than Younger People?

Ravi Jagannathan and Narayana R. Kocherlakota
[Article available on-line as PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file or PostScript file]

Spring 1996 (Vol. 20 No. 2)

• The Role Played by Public Enterprises: How Much Does It Differ Across Countries?

James A. Schmitz, Jr.
[Article available on-line as PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file or PostScript file]

• Using Monthly Data to Improve Quarterly Model Forecasts

Daniel M. Chin and Preston J. Miller
[Article available on-line as PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file or PostScript file]

Winter 1996 (Vol. 20 No. 1)

• Narrow Banking Meets the Diamond-Dybvig Model

Neil Wallace
[Article available on-line as PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file or PostScript file]

• Time to Plan and Aggregate Fluctuations

Lawrence J. Christiano and Richard M. Todd
[Article available on-line as PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file or PostScript file]

Fall 1995 (Vol. 19 No. 4)

• The CAPM Debate

Ravi Jagannathan and Ellen R. McGrattan
[Article available on-line as PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file or PostScript file]
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• The Growth Effects of Monetary Policy

V. V. Chari, Larry E. Jones, and Rodolfo E. Manuelli
[Article available on-line as PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file or PostScript file]

Summer 1995 (Vol. 19 No. 3)

• Some Monetary Facts

George T. McCandless Jr. and Warren E. Weber
[Article available on-line as PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file or PostScript file]

• Incorporating Concern for Relative Wealth Into Economic Models

Harold L. Cole, George J. Mailath, and Andrew Postlewaite
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Spring 1995 (Vol. 19 No. 2)

• A New Idea for Welfare Reform

Michael P. Keane
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• Analyzing a Proposal to Ban State Tax Breaks to Businesses

Thomas J. Holmes
[Article available on-line as PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file or PostScript file]

Winter 1995 (Vol. 19 No. 1)

• Resistance to New Technology and Trade Between Areas

Thomas J. Holmes and James A. Schmitz, Jr.
[Article available on-line as PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file or PostScript file]

• A Fine Time for Monetary Policy?

John F. Geweke and David E. Runkle
[Article available on-line as PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file or PostScript file]

Fall 1994 (Vol. 18 No. 4)

• A Progress Report on Business Cycle Models

Ellen R. McGrattan
[Article available on-line as PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file or PostScript file]
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• Another Attempt to Quantify the Benefits of Reducing Inflation

R. Anton Braun
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Summer 1994 (Vol. 18 No. 3)

• Are Banks Dead? Or Are the Reports Greatly Exaggerated?

John H. Boyd and Mark Gertler
[Article available on-line as PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file or PostScript file]

• Macroeconomics With Frictions

S. Rao Aiyagari
[Article available on-line as PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file or PostScript file]

Spring 1994 (Vol. 18 No. 2)

• A Primer on Static Applied General Equilibrium Models

Patrick J. Kehoe and Timothy J. Kehoe
Published In: Modeling North America's economic integration (1995, pp. 1-31)
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• Capturing NAFTA's Impact With Applied General Equilibrium Models

Patrick J. Kehoe and Timothy J. Kehoe
Published In: Modeling North America's economic integration (1995, pp. 33-57)
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Winter 1994 (Vol. 18 No. 1)

• The Role of Large Banks in the Recent U.S. Banking Crisis

John H. Boyd and Mark Gertler
Reprinted From: NBER Macroeconomics Annual 1993 (pp. 319-368)
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• On the Contribution of Technology Shocks to Business Cycles

S. Rao Aiyagari
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Fall 1993 (Vol. 17 No. 4)

• In Order to Form a More Perfect Monetary Union

Arthur J. Rolnick, Bruce D. Smith, and Warren E. Weber
[Article available on-line as PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file or PostScript file]

• International Business Cycles: Theory vs. Evidence

David K. Backus, Patrick J. Kehoe, and Finn E. Kydland
Published In: Frontiers of business cycle research (1995, pp. 331-356)
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Summer 1993 (Vol. 17 No. 3)

• Putting Home Economics Into Macroeconomics

Jeremy Greenwood, Richard Rogerson, and Randall Wright
[Article available on-line as PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file or PostScript file]

• The Macroeconomic Effects of World Trade in Financial Assets

Harold L. Cole
Reprinted From: International Economic Review (Vol. 29, No. 2, May 1988, pp. 237-259)
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Spring 1993 (Vol. 17 No. 2)

• Changes in the Wealth of Nations

Stephen L. Parente and Edward C. Prescott
[Article available on-line as PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file or PostScript file]

• Early Progress on the "Problem of Economic Development"

James A. Schmitz, Jr.
[Article available on-line as PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file or PostScript file]

Winter 1993 (Vol. 17 No. 1)

• On the Emergence of Parliamentary Government: The Role of Private Information

Edward J. Green
[Article available on-line as PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file or PostScript file]

• Explaining Financial Market Facts: The Importance of Incomplete Markets and Transaction Costs

S. Rao Aiyagari
[Article available on-line as PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file or PostScript file]

Fall 1992 (Vol. 16 No. 4)

• How the U.S. Treasury Should Auction Its Debt

V. V. Chari and Robert J. Weber
[Article available on-line as PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file or PostScript file]

• No Relief in Sight for the U.S. Economy

David E. Runkle
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Summer 1992 (Vol. 16 No. 3)

• SPDAs and GICs: Like Money in the Bank?

Richard M. Todd and Neil Wallace
[Article available on-line as PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file or PostScript file]

• Acceptability, Means of Payment, and Media of Exchange

Nobuhiro Kiyotaki and Randall Wright
Reprinted From: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance (1992)
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Spring 1992 (Vol. 16 No. 2)

• The Labor Market in Real Business Cycle Theory

Gary D. Hansen and Randall Wright
Published In: Real business cycles: A reader (1998, pp. 168-178)
Published In: The rational expectations revolution: Readings from the front line (1994, pp. 335-353)
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• Resolving the National Bank Note Paradox

Bruce A. Champ, Neil Wallace, and Warren E. Weber
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Winter 1992 (Vol. 16 No. 1)

• How Little We Know About Deficit Policy Effects

Preston J. Miller and William Roberds
[Article available on-line as PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file or PostScript file]

• Direct Investment: A Doubtful Alternative to International Debt

Harold L. Cole and William B. English
Reprinted From: Journal of International Economics (Vol. 30, No. 3-4, May 1991, pp. 201-227)
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Fall 1991 (Vol. 15 No. 4)

• Can a "Credit Crunch" Be Efficient?