CHRISTINA ROMER
Class of 1957 - Garff B. Wilson Professor of Economics
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Mailing Address:
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Economics
530 Evans Hall #3880
Berkeley, CA 94720-3880
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Tel No. (510) 642-4317
Fax No. (510) 642-6615
Office Hours: Thursdays, 2-4 p.m. in 681 Evans
E-mail Address:
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Working Papers
New York Times Economic View Columns
Invited Lectures
Courses
Reprints
Selected Speeches while CEA Chair
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Working Papers
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The Most Dangerous Idea in Federal Reserve History: Monetary Policy Doesn't Matter [PDF], with
David H. Romer, January 2013
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The Missing Transmission Mechanism in the Monetary Explanation of the Great Depression [PDF], with
David H. Romer, January 2013
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The Incentive Effects of Marginal Tax Rates: Evidence from the Interwar Era [PDF], with
David H. Romer, November 2012
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A Narrative Analysis of Interwar Tax Changes [PDF], with
David H. Romer, November 2012
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A Narrative Analysis of Postwar Tax Changes [PDF], with
David H. Romer, June 2009
New York Times Economic View Columns
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The Business of the Minimum Wage, March 2, 2013
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The Fed Drives Best at Higher Speeds, January 19, 2013
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Budget Showdown Offers an Opportunity for Progress, November 10, 2012
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The Fiscal Stimulus, Flawed but Valuable, October 20, 2012
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Cutting the Deficit, With Compassion, September 8, 2012
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Only the First Step in Containing Health Costs, July 21, 2012
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It's Time for the Fed to Lead the Fight, June 9, 2012
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Hey, Not So Fast on European Austerity, April 28, 2012
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That Wishful Thinking About Tax Rates, March 17, 2012
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Do Manufacturers Need Special Treatment?, February 4, 2012
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Big Problems; Two Ready Solutions, December 31, 2011
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Financial Crisis Needn’t Be a Noose, December 17, 2011
- Dear
Ben: It's Time for a Volcker Moment, October 29, 2011
- The
Hope that Flows from History, August 14, 2011
- The
Rock and the Hard Place on the Deficit, July 3, 2011
- Needed:
Plain Talk About the Dollar, May 21, 2011
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This Jobless Rate Isn't the New Normal, April 9, 2011
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The Debate That’s Muting the Fed’s Response, Feb. 26, 2011
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What Obama Should Say About the Deficit, Jan. 15, 2011
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It’s the Big Questions That Slow Growth, Dec. 4, 2010
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Now Isn’t the Time to Cut the Deficit, Oct. 23, 2010
Invited Lectures
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It Takes a Regime Shift: Recent Developments in Japanese Monetary Policy Through the Lens of the Great Depression
[PDF], NBER Annual Conference on Macroeconomics, April 12, 2013.
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Remarks at the NBER Memorial for Anna Jacobson Schwartz
[PDF], New York City, April 21, 2013.
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Lessons from the Great Depression for Policy Today
[PDF], Teach-In on the Great Depression and World War II, University of Oklahoma, March 11, 2013.
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What's at Stake? Economic Issues in the 2012 Presidential Election
[PDF], Inouye Lecture, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, October 30, 2012.
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Fiscal Policy in the Crisis: Lessons and Policy Implications
[PDF], IMF Fiscal Forum, April 18, 2012.
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Christina Romer on Learning from the Great Depression, Five Books Interview, The Browser, February 17, 2011.
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The Challenges of Economic Policymaking: The Case of Health Care Reform
[PDF], College Preparatory School Live Talk Series, January 12, 2012.
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The Slow Recovery: Sources and Solutions
[PDF], IMN Super Bowl of Indexing, December 5, 2011.
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Policy Responses to the Great Recession: The Interaction of Leadership and Economic Ideas
[PDF], Iowa State University, December 1, 2011.
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What Do We Know about the Effects of Fiscal Policy? Separating Evidence from Ideology
[PDF], Hamilton College, November 7, 2011.
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The Economy: Where Are We and What Should We Do?
[PDF], League of Women Voters Annual Community Luncheon, Berkeley, August 18, 2011.
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Commencement Address
[PDF], Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, May 18, 2011.
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Unemployment or Insolvency: Strategies for a Troubled Economy
[PDF], Zale Lecture in Public Policy, Stanford University, May 5, 2011.
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The Continuing Unemployment Crisis: Causes, Cures, and Questions for Further Study
[PDF], Livable Lives Initiative Symposium, Washington University in St. Louis, April 12, 2011.
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Bridging the Gap: America's
Middle Class [PDF], Vanderbilt University Impact
Symposium, March 22, 2011.
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Restoring American Prosperity: Challenges and Solutions [PDF],
2011 State of the Valley Conference,
February 18, 2011
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Fiscal Policy in the Obama White House: Reasoning, Results, and Challenges Going Forward [PDF], Reed College, November 17, 2010
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Macroeconomic Policy in the 1960s: The Causes
and Consequences of a Mistaken Revolution [PDF],
Economic History Association Annual Meeting,
September 2007
Courses
Reprints
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The Macroeconomic Effects of Tax Changes: Estimates Based on a
New Measure of Fiscal Shocks [PDF], with David H. Romer, American Economic Review,
June 2010. Posted with the permission of the American Economic
Association.
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Do Tax Cuts
Starve the Beast? The Effect of Tax Changes on Government
Spending [PDF], with David Romer, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity,
Spring 2009. Posted with the permission of Brookings Institution Press.
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The
FOMC
versus the Staff: Where Can Monetary
Policymakers Add Value? [PDF], with David Romer, American
Economic Review, May 2008. Posted with the permission of the American
Economic Association.
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Was the Federal Reserve Constrained by the Gold Standard During the
Great Depression? Evidence from the 1932
Open Market Purchase Program [PDF],
with Chang-Tai Hsieh, Journal of Economic
History, March 2006. Posted with the permission of
Cambridge University
Press.
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New Measure of Monetary Shocks:
Derivation and Implications [PDF], with David H. Romer,
American Economic Review, September 2004. Posted with the
permission of the American Economic Association.
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Choosing the Federal Reserve Chair: Lessons
from History [PDF], with David H. Romer, Journal of Economic
Perspectives, Winter 2004. Posted with the permission of the American
Economic Association.
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The Great Depression [PDF],
Encyclopaedia Britannica , December 2003.
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The Evolution of Economic Understanding and Postwar
Stabilization Policy [PDF], with D. Romer,
in Rethinking Stabilization Policy,
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, 2002.
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Rehabilitation of Monetary Policy in the 1950's [PDF]
, with David H. Romer, American Economic Review,
May 2002. Posted with permission from the American Economic
Association.
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Federal Reserve Information and the Behavior
of Interest Rates [PDF], with David H. Romer,
American Economic Review,
June 2000. Posted with permission from
the American Economic Association.
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Changes in Business Cycles: Evidence and
Explanations [PDF], Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring
1999. Posted with the permission of the American Economic Association.
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The Nation in Depression [PDF], Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 1993.
Posted with the permission of the American Economic Association.
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What Ended the Great Depression? [PDF], Journal of Economic History, December 1992.
Posted with the permission of Cambridge University Press.
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The
Cyclical Behavior of Individual Production Series, 1889-1984 [PDF],
Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 1991. Posted with the permission of
MIT Press.
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The
Great Crash and the Onset of the Great Depression, [PDF], Quarterly
Journal of Economics, August 1990. Posted with the permission of MIT
Press.
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Does
Monetary Policy Matter? A New Test in the Spirit of Friedman and
Schwartz [PDF], with David H. Romer, NBER Macroeconomics Annual 1989.
Posted with the permission of MIT Press.
Selected Speeches while CEA Chair
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Not My Father's Recession: The Extraordinary Challenges and Policy Responses of the First Twenty Months of the Obama Administration [PDF], The National Press Club, September 1, 2010
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Finishing the Job: The Policies Needed to Ensure Full Recovery and Fiscal Stability in the United States [PDF],
OECD Forum,
May 27, 2010
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New Policies for a New Century: Recent Economic Actions through the Lens of the New Deal [PDF],
Commencement Address, College of William and Mary,
May 16, 2010
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Treatment and Prevention: Ending the Great Recession and Ensuring that It Doesn't Happen Again [PDF],
City Club of Cleveland,
May 3, 2010
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Back to a Better Normal: Unemployment and Growth in the Wake of the Great Recession [PDF],
Princeton University Colloquium on Public and International Affairs,
April 17, 2010
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Moving Forward on Jobs [PDF],
National Association of Business Economics 26th Annual Washington Economic Policy Conference,
March 9, 2010
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Health Care Reform and the Budget Deficit [PDF],
Center for American Progress,
October 26, 2009
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Back from the Brink [PDF],
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 12th Annual International Conference,
September 24, 2009
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So, Is It Working? An Assessment of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act at the Five-Month Mark [PDF],
The Economic Club of Washington D.C.,
August 6, 2009
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The
Lessons of 1937, The Economist, June 18, 2009
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The Economic Case for Health Care Reform [PDF],
Commonwealth Club, San Francisco,
June 8, 2009
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Growth without Bubbles [PDF],
Council on Foreign Relations,
May 12, 2009
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Lessons from the New Deal for Economic Recovery in 2009 [PDF],
Brookings Institution,
March 9, 2009
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Fiscal Policy and Economic Recovery [PDF],
National Association of Business Economics 25th Annual Washington Policy Conference,
March 3, 2009
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The Case for Fiscal Stimulus: The Likely Effects of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act [PDF],
U.S. Monetary Policy Forum,
February 27, 2009
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