Robert Barsky

Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Senior Economist and Research Advisor

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University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics

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1.

Monetary Policy and Durable Goods

FRB of Chicago Working Paper No. WP-2016-18
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 07 Dec 2016
Robert Barsky, Christopher L. House, Christoph Boehm and Miles S. Kimball
Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics, University of Texas at Austin and University of Colorado Boulder
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Taylor rule, inflation targeting, economic stabilization

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Oil and the Macroeconomy Since the 1970s

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Oil and the Macroeconomy Since the 1970s

NBER Working Paper No. w10855
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 27 Oct 2004 Last Revised: 31 Aug 2022
Robert Barsky and Lutz Kilian
Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
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Oil and the Macroeconomy Since the 1970s

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 08 Sep 2004
Robert Barsky and Lutz Kilian
Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
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Oil shock, stagflation, OPEC, recession

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Gibson's Paradox and the Gold Standard

NBER Working Paper No. w1680
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 03 May 2004 Last Revised: 06 Aug 2022
Robert Barsky and Lawrence H. Summers
Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and Harvard University
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Do We Really Know that Oil Caused the Great Stagflation? A Monetary Alternative

NBER Working Paper No. w8389
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 20 Jul 2001 Last Revised: 05 Jun 2022
Robert Barsky and Lutz Kilian
Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Downloads 166 (374,088)
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Why Does the Stock Market Fluctuate?

NBER Working Paper No. w3995
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 03 Jan 2002 Last Revised: 04 Dec 2022
Robert Barsky and J. Bradford DeLong
Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and University of California, Berkeley
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A Monetary Explanation of the Great Stagflation of the 1970s

NBER Working Paper No. w7547
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 05 May 2000 Last Revised: 17 Aug 2022
Robert Barsky and Lutz Kilian
Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
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What Can the Price Gap between Branded and Private Label Products Tell Us About Markups?

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What Can the Price Gap between Branded and Private Label Products Tell Us About Markups?

NBER Working Paper No. w8426
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 14 Aug 2001 Last Revised: 11 Jul 2022
Robert Barsky, Mark E. Bergen, Shantanu Dutta and Daniel Levy
Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, University of Minnesota - Carlson School of Management, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and Bar-Ilan University - Department of Economics
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What Can the Price Gap between Branded and Private-Label Products Tell Us About Markups?

SCANNER DATA AND PRICE INDEXES, Robert Feenstra, Matthew Shapiro, eds., National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Studies in Income and Wealth, Vol. 64, pp. 165-225, 2003
Posted: 15 Feb 2004
Robert Barsky, Mark E. Bergen, Shantanu Dutta and Daniel Levy
Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, University of Minnesota - Carlson School of Management, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and Bar-Ilan University - Department of Economics

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Markup, Retail and Wholesale Price, Marginal Cost, National Brand, Private Label, Transaction Price Data, Upper and Lower Bounds on Markup, Market Power, Advertisement, Quality

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Preference Parameters and Behavioral Heterogeneity: An Experimental Approach in the Health and Retirement Survey

NBER Working Paper No. w5213
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 20 Sep 2000 Last Revised: 01 Oct 2022
Robert Barsky, Miles S. Kimball, F. Thomas Juster and Matthew D. Shapiro
Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Institute for Social Research (ISR) and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics
Downloads 127 (465,217)
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The Seasonal Cycle and the Business Cycle

NBER Working Paper No. w2688
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 16 Jul 2004 Last Revised: 08 May 2022
Robert Barsky and Jeffrey A. Miron
Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and Harvard University - Department of Economics
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Bull and Bear Markets in the Twentieth Century

NBER Working Paper No. w3171
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 27 Apr 2000 Last Revised: 02 Sep 2022
Robert Barsky and J. Bradford DeLong
Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and University of California, Berkeley
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Measuring the Cyclicality of Real Wages: How Important is Composition Bias

NBER Working Paper No. w4202
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 18 Jun 2004 Last Revised: 26 Dec 2022
Gary Solon, Robert Barsky and Jonathan A. Parker
University of Arizona, Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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The Fisher Hypothesis and the Forecastability and Persistence of Inflation

NBER Working Paper No. w1927
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 15 Aug 2007 Last Revised: 09 Oct 2022
Robert Barsky
Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
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Bubbles and Leverage: A Simple and Unified Approach

FRB of Chicago Working Paper No. 2013-21
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 14 Dec 2013
Robert Barsky and Theodore Bogusz
Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
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Asset Pricing, Heterogeneity, Bubbles

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Do Flexible Durable Goods Prices Undermine Sticky Price Models?

NBER Working Paper No. w9832
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 14 Jul 2003 Last Revised: 16 May 2022
Robert Barsky, Christopher L. House and Miles S. Kimball
Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics and University of Colorado Boulder
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Interest Rates or Haircuts? Prices versus Quantities in the Market for Collateralized Risky Loans

FRB of Chicago Working Paper No. WP-2016-19
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 14 Dec 2016
Robert Barsky, Theodore Bogusz and Matthew Easton
Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
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leverage cycle, margins, financial crises, repo, risk, collateral, belief disagreements

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Ricardian Consumers with Keynesian Propensities

NBER Working Paper No. w1400
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 28 Jun 2004 Last Revised: 01 May 2022
Robert Barsky, N. Gregory Mankiw and Stephen P. Zeldes
Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Harvard University - Department of Economics and Columbia University - Columbia Business School
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Why Don't the Prices of Stocks and Bonds Move Together?

NBER Working Paper No. w2047
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 05 Jul 2004 Last Revised: 07 Aug 2022
Robert Barsky
Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
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Accounting for the Black-White Wealth Gap: A Nonparametric Approach

NBER Working Paper No. w8466
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 10 Sep 2001 Last Revised: 21 Aug 2022
Robert Barsky, John Bound, Kerwin Kofi Charles and Joseph Lupton
Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, University of Michigan, University of Michigan - Department of Economics & Ford School and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics
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Information, Animal Spirits, and the Meaning of Innovations in Consumer Confidence

NBER Working Paper No. w15049
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 08 Jun 2009 Last Revised: 13 Feb 2023
Robert Barsky and Eric R. Sims
Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
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Forecasting Pre-World War I Inflation: the Fisher Effect Revisited

NBER Working Paper No. w2784
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 03 May 2004 Last Revised: 12 Aug 2022
Robert Barsky and J. Bradford DeLong
Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and University of California, Berkeley
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News Shocks

NBER Working Paper No. w15312
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 15 Sep 2009
Robert Barsky and Eric R. Sims
Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
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The Japanese Bubble: A 'Heterogeneous' Approach

NBER Working Paper No. w15052
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 08 Jun 2009 Last Revised: 17 Feb 2023
Robert Barsky
Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
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Real Wages Over the Business Cycle

NBER Working Paper No. w2888
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 28 Jun 2004 Last Revised: 29 Nov 2022
Robert Barsky and Gary Solon
Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and University of Arizona
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Interest Spreads and Margins in Collateral Equilibrium with Heterogeneous Beliefs

FRB of Chicago Working Paper No. 2022-36
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 19 Aug 2022
Robert Barsky, Avery Bogus and Matthew Easton
Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Uptake Technologies, Inc. and Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
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Financial Economics, Leverage, Interest Rates, Credit Markets, Heterogeneous Beliefs

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Whither News Shocks?

NBER Working Paper No. w20666
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 10 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 21 Jun 2023
robert barsky, Susanto Basu, Susanto Basu, Robert Barsky and Keyoung Lee
affiliation not provided to SSRN, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)Boston College, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics, Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
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