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1 Fall 2006 University of California, Berkeley Christina Romer David Romer ECONOMICS 210C / ECONOMICS 236A MONETARY HISTORY SYLLABUS PART I: THE EFFECTS OF POLICY August 30 The Identification Problem in Monetary Economics Anderson, Leonall C., and Jerry L. Jordan Monetary and Fiscal Actions: A Test of Their Relative Importance in Economic Stabilization. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review 50 (November): September 6 Narrative Evidence and Natural Experiments Friedman, Milton, and Anna J. Schwartz A Summing Up. A Monetary History of the United States, , Chapter 13. Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp Romer, Christina D., and David H. Romer Does Monetary Policy Matter? A New Test in the Spirit of Friedman and Schwartz. NBER Macroeconomics Annual 4: Romer, Christina D., and David H. Romer A New Measure of Monetary Policy Shocks: Derivation and Implications. American Economic Review 94 (September): di Giovanni, Julian, Justin McCrary, and Till von Wachter Following Germany s Lead: Using International Monetary Linkages to Estimate the Effect of Monetary Policy on the Economy. Unpublished paper, University of Michigan (April). September 13 Vector Autoregressions Cooley, Thomas F., and Stephen F. LeRoy Atheoretical Macroeconomics: A Critique. Journal of Monetary Economics 16 (November): Christiano, Lawrence J., Martin Eichenbaum, and Charles Evans The Effects of Monetary Policy Shocks: Evidence from the Flow of Funds. Review of Economics and Statistics 78 (February): Galí, Jordi How Well Does the IS-LM Model Fit Postwar U.S. Data? Quarterly Journal of Economics 107 (May): Bernanke, Ben S., and Ilian Mihov Measuring Monetary Policy. Quarterly Journal of Economics 113 (August):

2 September 20 Monetary Policy and Interest Rates Cook, Timothy, and Thomas Hahn The Effect of Changes in the Federal Funds Rate Target on Market Interest Rates in the 1970s. Journal of Monetary Economics 24 (November): Kuttner, Kenneth N Monetary Policy Surprises and Interest Rates: Evidence from the Fed Funds Futures Market. Journal of Monetary Economics 47 (June): Romer, Christina D., and David H. Romer Federal Reserve Information and the Behavior of Interest Rates. American Economic Review 90 (June): Piazzesi, Monika, and Eric Swanson Futures Prices as Risk-Adjusted Forecasts of Monetary Policy. Unpublished paper, University of Chicago (August). September 27 Deflation and the Zero Nominal Bound Krugman, Paul R It's Baaack: Japan's Slump and the Return of the Liquidity Trap. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, no. 2, , Eggertsson, Gauti, and Michael Woodford The Zero Bound on Interest Rates and Optimal Monetary Policy. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, no. 1, , Temin, Peter, and Barrie A. Wigmore The End of One Big Deflation. Explorations in Economic History 27 (October): Romer, Christina D What Ended the Great Depression? Journal of Economic History 52 (December): October 4 Effects of Fiscal Policy Giavazzi, Francesco, and Marco Pagano Can Severe Fiscal Contractions Be Expansionary? Tales of Two Small European Countries. NBER Macroeconomics Annual 5: Ramey, Valerie A., and Matthew D. Shapiro Costly Capital Reallocation and the Effects of Government Spending. Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy 48 (June): Blanchard, Olivier, and Roberto Perotti An Empirical Characterization of the Dynamic Effects of Changes in Government Spending and Taxes on Output. Quarterly Journal of Economics 117 (November): Romer, Christina D., and David H. Romer The Macroeconomic Effects of Tax Changes: New Estimates Based on Policymakers Motivation. Unpublished paper, University of California, Berkeley.

3 PART II: BUSINESS CYCLES IN HISTORY October 11 Business Cycle Facts Romer, Christina D Spurious Volatility in Historical Unemployment Data. Journal of Political Economy 94 (February): Davis, Joseph H An Annual Index of U.S. Industrial Production, Quarterly Journal of Economics 119 (November): Hanes, Christopher The Development of Nominal Wage Rigidity in the Late 19th Century. American Economic Review 83 (September): Raff, Daniel M.G Wage Determination Theory and the Five-Dollar Day at Ford. Journal of Economic History 48 (June): October 18 Financial Panics Friedman, Milton, and Anna J. Schwartz The Panic of A Monetary History of the United States, , Chapter 4, Section 3. Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp Miron, Jeffrey A Financial Panics, the Seasonality of the Nominal Interest Rate, and the Founding of the Fed. American Economic Review 76 (March): Calomiris, Charles W., and Joseph R. Mason Fundamentals, Panics, and Bank Distress During the Depression. American Economic Review 93 (December): Richardson, Gary, and William Troost Monetary Intervention Mitigated Banking Panics During the Great Depression: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Federal Reserve District Border in Mississippi, 1929 to Unpublished paper, University of California, Irvine (February). October 25 The Great Depression Friedman, Milton, and Anna J. Schwartz The Great Contraction, A Monetary History of the United States, , Chapter 7, Sections 1, 6, and 7. Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp , Romer, Christina D The Great Crash and the Onset of the Great Depression. Quarterly Journal of Economics 105 (August): O Brien, Anthony Patrick A Behavioral Explanation for Nominal Wage Rigidity During the Great Depression. Quarterly Journal of Economics 104 (November): Cole, Harold L., Lee E. Ohanian, and Ron Leung Deflation and the International Great Depression: A Productivity Puzzle. National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No (April).

4 November 1 Class Presentations November 8 Class Presentations November 15 Postwar Fluctuations Barsky, Robert B., and Lutz Kilian Do We Really Know that Oil Caused the Great Stagflation? A Monetary Alternative. NBER Macroeconomics Annual 16: Alexopoulos, Michelle Read All About It!! What Happens Following a Technology Shock? Unpublished paper, University of Toronto (April). Taylor, John B A Historical Analysis of Monetary Policy Rules. In John B. Taylor, ed., Monetary Policy Rules. Chicago: University of Chicago Press for NBER, pp Clarida, Richard, Jordi Galí, and Mark Gertler Monetary Policy Rules and Macroeconomic Stability: Evidence and Some Theory. Quarterly Journal of Economics 115 (February): November 22 Determinants of Postwar Monetary Policy Romer, Christina D. and David H. Romer The Evolution of Economic Understanding and Postwar Stabilization Policy. In Rethinking Stabilization Policy (Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City): Nelson, Edward The Great Inflation of the Seventies: What Really Happened? B.E. Advances in Macroeconomics 5, Article 3. Orphanides, Athanasios The Quest for Prosperity Without Inflation. Journal of Monetary Economics 50 (April): Primiceri, Giorgio E Why Inflation Rose and Fell: Policy-Makers Beliefs and U.S. Postwar Stabilization Policy. Quarterly Journal of Economics 121 (August): November 29 Inflation Inertia Ball, Laurence What Determines the Sacrifice Ratio? In N. Gregory Mankiw, ed., Monetary Policy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press for NBER, pp Galí, Jordi, and Mark Gertler Inflation Dynamics: A Structural Econometric Approach. Journal of Monetary Economics 44 (October): Sargent, Thomas J Stopping Moderate Inflations: The Methods of Poincare and Thatcher. In Rudiger Dornbusch and Mario Henrique Simonsen, eds., Inflation, Debt, and Indexation. Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press, pp Benati, Luca U.K. Monetary Regimes and Macroeconomic Stylised Facts. Unpublished paper, Bank of England.

5 December 6 The Great Moderation McConnell, Margaret M., and Gabriel Perez-Quiros, Output Fluctuations in the United States: What Has Changed Since the Early 1980s? American Economic Review 90 (December): Ramey, Valerie A., and Daniel J. Vine Tracking the Source of the Decline in GDP Volatility: An Analysis of the Automobile Industry. NBER Working Paper No Stock, James H., and Mark W. Watson Has the Business Cycle Changed and Why? NBER Macroeconomics Annual 17:

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