Alan S. Blinder

Princeton University - Department of Economics

Princeton, NJ 08544-1021

United States

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Financing Constraints and Corporate Investment

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Financing Constraints and Corporate Investment

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership Historical Research Reference in Entrepreneurship
Posted: 17 Nov 2009
Steven M. Fazzari, Glenn Hubbard, Bruce C. Petersen, Alan S. Blinder, James M. Poterba and James M. Poterba
Washington University in St. Louis, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Washington University in St. Louis - Department of Economics, Princeton University - Department of Economics and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics

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Capital investment, Tax policies, Investment policies, Financial markets, Market constraints, Debt financing, Earnings, Manufacturing industries, Financial constraints, Access to capital, Firm financing

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Credit, Money, and Aggregate Demand

NBER Working Paper No. w2534
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 27 Apr 2000 Last Revised: 05 Dec 2022
Ben S. Bernanke and Alan S. Blinder
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and Princeton University - Department of Economics
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Central Bank Communication and Monetary Policy: A Survey of Theory and Evidence

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Central Bank Communication and Monetary Policy: A Survey of Theory and Evidence

ECB Working Paper No. 898
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 14 May 2008
Alan S. Blinder, Michael Ehrmann, Marcel Fratzscher, Jakob de Haan, Jakob de Haan and David-Jan Jansen
Princeton University - Department of Economics, European Central Bank (ECB), DIW Berlin, University of Groningen - Faculty of Economics and BusinessDe Nederlandsche Bank and De Nederlandsche Bank
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Communication, central bank, monetary policy

Central Bank Communication and Monetary Policy: A Survey of Theory and Evidence

NBER Working Paper No. w13932
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 11 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 28 Jul 2022
Alan S. Blinder, Michael Ehrmann, Marcel Fratzscher, Jakob de Haan, Jakob de Haan and David-Jan Jansen
Princeton University - Department of Economics, European Central Bank (ECB), DIW Berlin, University of Groningen - Faculty of Economics and BusinessDe Nederlandsche Bank and De Nederlandsche Bank
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Talking About Monetary Policy: The Virtues (and Vice?) of Central Bank Communication

BIS Working Paper No. 274
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 29 Jul 2009
Alan S. Blinder
Princeton University - Department of Economics
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Central Bank Communication, Monetary Policy Transparency

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What Does the Public Know About Economic Policy, and How Does it Know it?

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What Does the Public Know About Economic Policy, and How Does it Know it?

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 02 Oct 2004
Alan S. Blinder and Alan B. Krueger
Princeton University - Department of Economics and Princeton University - Industrial Relations Section
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ideology, public opinion, knowledge

What Does the Public Know About Economic Policy, and How Does it Know it?

NBER Working Paper No. w10787
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 05 Oct 2004 Last Revised: 24 Dec 2022
Alan S. Blinder and Alan B. Krueger
Princeton University - Department of Economics and Princeton University - Industrial Relations Section
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Macroeconomics, Income Distribution, and Poverty

NBER Working Paper No. w1567
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 31 May 2001 Last Revised: 15 Oct 2022
Rebecca M. Blank and Alan S. Blinder
U.S. Department of Commerce and Princeton University - Department of Economics
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Central Bank Communication with the General Public: Promise or False Hope?

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Central Bank Communication with the General Public: Promise or False Hope?

De Nederlandsche Bank Working Paper No. 744
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 04 May 2022
Alan S. Blinder, Michael Ehrmann, Jakob de Haan, Jakob de Haan and David-Jan Jansen
Princeton University - Department of Economics, European Central Bank (ECB), University of Groningen - Faculty of Economics and BusinessDe Nederlandsche Bank and De Nederlandsche Bank
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central bank communication, general public, trust, inflation expectations

Central Bank Communication with the General Public: Promise or False Hope?

ECB Working Paper No. 2022/2694
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 03 Aug 2022
Alan S. Blinder, Michael Ehrmann, Jakob de Haan, Jakob de Haan and David-Jan Jansen
Princeton University - Department of Economics, European Central Bank (ECB), University of Groningen - Faculty of Economics and BusinessDe Nederlandsche Bank and De Nederlandsche Bank
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central bank, communication, general public, monetary policy

Central Bank Communication with the General Public: Promise or False Hope?

NBER Working Paper No. w30277
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 25 Jul 2022 Last Revised: 14 Apr 2023
Alan S. Blinder, Michael Ehrmann, Jakob de Haan, Jakob de Haan and David-Jan Jansen
Princeton University - Department of Economics, European Central Bank (ECB), University of Groningen - Faculty of Economics and BusinessDe Nederlandsche Bank and De Nederlandsche Bank
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New Estimates of the Jumbo-Conforming Mortgage Spread

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 24 Jan 2006
Alan S. Blinder, Mark J. Flannery and G. Brandon Lockhart
Princeton University - Department of Economics, University of Florida - Department of Finance, Insurance and Real Estate and Clemson University - Department of Finance
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Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, GSEs, securitization, subsidies, mortgage rates, MBS, yield spreads

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The Federal Funds Rate and the Channels of Monetary Transnission

NBER Working Paper No. w3487
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 26 Dec 2000 Last Revised: 14 Jul 2022
Ben S. Bernanke and Alan S. Blinder
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and Princeton University - Department of Economics
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Necessity As the Mother of Invention Monetary Policy after the Crisis

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Necessity As the Mother of Invention Monetary Policy after the Crisis

De Nederlandsche Bank Working Paper No. 525
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 12 Oct 2016
Alan S. Blinder, Michael Ehrmann, Jakob de Haan, Jakob de Haan and David-Jan Jansen
Princeton University - Department of Economics, European Central Bank (ECB), University of Groningen - Faculty of Economics and BusinessDe Nederlandsche Bank and De Nederlandsche Bank
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monetary policy; central banks; surveys

Necessity As the Mother of Invention: Monetary Policy after the Crisis

ECB Working Paper No. 2047
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 22 Apr 2017
Alan S. Blinder, Michael Ehrmann, Jakob de Haan, Jakob de Haan and David-Jan Jansen
Princeton University - Department of Economics, European Central Bank (ECB), University of Groningen - Faculty of Economics and BusinessDe Nederlandsche Bank and De Nederlandsche Bank
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monetary policy, central banks, surveys

Necessity as the Mother of Invention: Monetary Policy after the Crisis

NBER Working Paper No. w22735
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 17 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 13 Feb 2023
Alan S. Blinder, Michael Ehrmann, Jakob de Haan, Jakob de Haan and David-Jan Jansen
Princeton University - Department of Economics, European Central Bank (ECB), University of Groningen - Faculty of Economics and BusinessDe Nederlandsche Bank and De Nederlandsche Bank
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Issues in the Coordination of Monetary and Fiscal Policy

NBER Working Paper No. w0982
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 08 Jun 2004 Last Revised: 09 Sep 2022
Alan S. Blinder
Princeton University - Department of Economics
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Are Two Heads Better than One?: An Experimental Analysis of Group vs. Individual Decisionmaking

NBER Working Paper No. w7909
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 16 Sep 2000 Last Revised: 13 Aug 2022
Alan S. Blinder and John Morgan
Princeton University - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley - Economic Analysis & Policy Group
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Central Banking in a Democracy

FRB Richmond Economic Quarterly, vol. 82, no. 4, Fall 1996, pp. 1-14
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 17 Nov 2012
Alan S. Blinder
Princeton University - Department of Economics
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Central Bank Credibility: Why Do We Care? How Do We Build it?

NBER Working Paper No. w7161
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 17 Aug 1999 Last Revised: 28 Jul 2022
Alan S. Blinder
Princeton University - Department of Economics
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Why are Prices Sticky? Preliminary Results from an Interview Study

NBER Working Paper No. w3646
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 05 Jul 2004 Last Revised: 19 Dec 2022
Alan S. Blinder
Princeton University - Department of Economics
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Private Pensions and Public Pensions: Theory and Fact

NBER Working Paper No. w0902
Number of pages: 88 Posted: 25 Jun 2004 Last Revised: 21 Dec 2022
Alan S. Blinder
Princeton University - Department of Economics
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The Supply-Shock Explanation of the Great Stagflation Revisited

NBER Working Paper No. w14563
Number of pages: 80 Posted: 29 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 17 Oct 2022
Alan S. Blinder and Jeremy B. Rudd
Princeton University - Department of Economics and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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Money, Credit Constraints, and Economic Activity

NBER Working Paper No. w1084
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 19 Jun 2004 Last Revised: 19 Dec 2022
Alan S. Blinder and Joseph E. Stiglitz
Princeton University - Department of Economics and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance
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On the Monetization of Deficits

NBER Working Paper No. w1052
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 19 Jun 2004 Last Revised: 18 Nov 2022
Alan S. Blinder
Princeton University - Department of Economics
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Human Capital and Labor Supply: A Synthesis

NBER Working Paper No. w0067
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 26 May 2004 Last Revised: 09 Sep 2022
Alan S. Blinder and Yoram Weiss
Princeton University - Department of Economics and Tel Aviv University - Eitan Berglas School of Economics
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Presidents and the U.S. Economy: An Econometric Exploration

NBER Working Paper No. w20324
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 28 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 15 Jul 2023
Alan S. Blinder and Mark W. Watson
Princeton University - Department of Economics and Princeton University - Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
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The 1971-1974 Controls Program and the Price Level: An Econometric Post-Mortem

NBER Working Paper No. w0279
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 05 Jul 2004 Last Revised: 08 Oct 2022
Alan S. Blinder and William J. Newton
Princeton University - Department of Economics and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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The Resurgence of Inventory Research: What Have We Learned?

NBER Working Paper No. w3408
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 27 Apr 2000 Last Revised: 26 Oct 2022
Alan S. Blinder and Louis J. Maccini
Princeton University - Department of Economics and Johns Hopkins University - Department of Economics
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Market Wages, Reservation Wages, and Retirement Decisions

NBER Working Paper No. w0513
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 10 Jul 2000 Last Revised: 29 May 2022
Roger H. Gordon and Alan S. Blinder
University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Economics and Princeton University - Department of Economics
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Alternative Measures of Offshorability: A Survey Approach

NBER Working Paper No. w15287
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 25 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2022
Alan S. Blinder and Alan B. Krueger
Princeton University - Department of Economics and Princeton University - Industrial Relations Section
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Can the Production Smoothing Model of Inventory Behavior Be Saved?

NBER Working Paper No. w1257
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 06 Apr 2004 Last Revised: 10 Dec 2022
Alan S. Blinder
Princeton University - Department of Economics
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Credit Rationing and Effective Supply Failures

NBER Working Paper No. w1619
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 27 Dec 2001 Last Revised: 05 Dec 2022
Alan S. Blinder
Princeton University - Department of Economics
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Reconsidering the Work Disincentive Effects of Social Security

NBER Working Paper No. w0562
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 28 Jun 2004 Last Revised: 13 Feb 2023
Alan S. Blinder, Roger H. Gordon and Donald E. Wise
Princeton University - Department of Economics, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Economics and Rider University
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Low for Long or Turning Point?

BIS Paper No. 98
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 16 Jul 2018
Jaime Caruana, Alan S. Blinder and Philip William Lowe
Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Princeton University - Department of Economics and Reserve Bank of Australia
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Inventories, Rational Expectations, and the Business Cycle

NBER Working Paper No. w0381
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 08 Jun 2004 Last Revised: 18 Jul 2022
Alan S. Blinder and Stanley Fischer
Princeton University - Department of Economics and Bank of Israel
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A Shred of Evidence on Theories of Wage Stickiness

NBER Working Paper No. w3105
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 28 Dec 2006 Last Revised: 28 Dec 2022
Alan S. Blinder and Don CHOI
Princeton University - Department of Economics and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Social Security, Bequests, and the Life Cycle Theory of Saving: Cross-Sectional Tests

NBER Working Paper No. w0619
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 04 Jul 2004 Last Revised: 13 Mar 2022
Alan S. Blinder, Roger H. Gordon and Donald E. Wise
Princeton University - Department of Economics, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Economics and Rider University
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Notches

NBER Working Paper No. w1416
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 19 Jun 2004 Last Revised: 16 Nov 2022
Alan S. Blinder and Harvey S. Rosen
Princeton University - Department of Economics and Princeton University - Department of Economics
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The Life-Cycle Permanent-Income Model and Consumer Durables

NBER Working Paper No. w2149
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 16 Jul 2004 Last Revised: 17 Nov 2022
Avner Bar-Ilan and Alan S. Blinder
University of Haifa - Department of Economics and Princeton University - Department of Economics
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Leadership in Groups: A Monetary Policy Experiment

NBER Working Paper No. w13391
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 14 Sep 2007 Last Revised: 05 Aug 2022
Alan S. Blinder and John Morgan
Princeton University - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley - Economic Analysis & Policy Group
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Inventories and Sticky Prices: More on the Microfoundations of Macroeconomics

NBER Working Paper No. w0620
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 08 Jun 2004 Last Revised: 12 Sep 2022
Alan S. Blinder
Princeton University - Department of Economics
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Public Opinion and the Balanced Budget

NBER Working Paper No. w1234
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 28 Jun 2004 Last Revised: 17 Nov 2022
Alan S. Blinder and Douglas Holtz-Eakin
Princeton University - Department of Economics and Syracuse University
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Inventories and the Structure of Macro Models

NBER Working Paper No. w0515
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 08 Jun 2004 Last Revised: 30 Nov 2022
Alan S. Blinder
Princeton University - Department of Economics
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Consumer Durables and the Optimality of Usually Doing Nothing

NBER Working Paper No. w2488
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 24 Jan 2007 Last Revised: 26 Oct 2022
Avner Bar-Ilan and Alan S. Blinder
University of Haifa - Department of Economics and Princeton University - Department of Economics
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Inventory Fluctuations in the United States Since 1929

NBER Working Paper No. w1371
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 08 Jun 2004 Last Revised: 02 Oct 2022
Alan S. Blinder and Douglas Holtz-Eakin
Princeton University - Department of Economics and Syracuse University
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Temporary Income Taxes and Consumer Spending

NBER Working Paper No. w0283
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 04 Jul 2004 Last Revised: 12 Oct 2022
Alan S. Blinder
Princeton University - Department of Economics
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Aggregation and Stabilization Policy in a Multi-Contract Economy

NBER Working Paper No. w0873
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 28 Dec 2006 Last Revised: 21 Nov 2022
Alan S. Blinder and N. Gregory Mankiw
Princeton University - Department of Economics and Harvard University - Department of Economics
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A Skeptical Note on the New Econometrics

NBER Working Paper No. w1092
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 09 Mar 2004 Last Revised: 28 Dec 2022
Alan S. Blinder
Princeton University - Department of Economics
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Inventories in the Keynesian Macro Model

NBER Working Paper No. w0460
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 08 Jun 2004 Last Revised: 06 Oct 2022
Alan S. Blinder
Princeton University - Department of Economics
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More on the Speed of Adjustment in Inventory Models

NBER Working Paper No. w1913
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 19 Jun 2004 Last Revised: 25 Sep 2022
Alan S. Blinder
Princeton University - Department of Economics
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The Challenge of High Unemployment

NBER Working Paper No. w2489
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 06 Apr 2007 Last Revised: 26 Oct 2022
Alan S. Blinder
Princeton University - Department of Economics
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The Level and Distribution of Economic Well-Being

NBER Working Paper No. w0488
Number of pages: 141 Posted: 15 Aug 2001 Last Revised: 03 Nov 2022
Alan S. Blinder
Princeton University - Department of Economics
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Monetary Accommodation of Supply Shocks Under Rational Expectations

NBER Working Paper No. w0464
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 09 May 2005 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2022
Alan S. Blinder
Princeton University - Department of Economics
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