Christina D. Romer

University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics

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1.

What Ended the Great Depression?

NBER Working Paper No. w3829
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 27 Apr 2000 Last Revised: 19 Dec 2022
Christina D. Romer
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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Lessons from the Great Depression for Economic Recovery in 2009

Revista de Economía Institucional, Vol. 11, No. 21, Second Semester of 2009
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 12 Jan 2010
Christina D. Romer
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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economic crises, Great Depression

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The Great Crash and the Onset of the Great Depression

NBER Working Paper No. w2639
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 15 Jul 2004 Last Revised: 20 Mar 2022
Christina D. Romer
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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New Evidence on the Monetary Transmission Mechanism

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 19 Jun 2004
Christina D. Romer and David H. Romer
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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What Ends Recessions?

NBER Working Paper No. w4765
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 10 Jun 2000 Last Revised: 09 Jan 2022
Christina D. Romer and David H. Romer
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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The Macroeconomic Effects of Tax Changes: Estimates Based on a New Measure of Fiscal Shocks

NBER Working Paper No. w13264
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 13 Jul 2007 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2022
Christina D. Romer and David H. Romer
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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Monetary Policy and the Well-Being of the Poor

NBER Working Paper No. w6793
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 30 Jan 1999 Last Revised: 25 Jul 2022
Christina D. Romer and David H. Romer
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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Does Monetary Policy Matter? a New Test in the Spirit of Friedman and Schwartz

NBER Working Paper No. w2966
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 25 Aug 2000 Last Revised: 11 Aug 2022
Christina D. Romer and David H. Romer
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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Changes in Business Cycles: Evidence and Explanations

NBER Working Paper No. w6948
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 04 Mar 1999 Last Revised: 28 Dec 2022
Christina D. Romer
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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Do Tax Cuts Starve the Beast: The Effect of Tax Changes on Government Spending

NBER Working Paper No. w13548
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 31 Oct 2007 Last Revised: 10 Jul 2022
Christina D. Romer and David H. Romer
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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A New Measure of Monetary Shocks: Derivation and Implications

NBER Working Paper No. w9866
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 29 Jul 2003 Last Revised: 18 Dec 2022
Christina D. Romer and David H. Romer
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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The Evolution of Economic Understanding and Postwar Stabilization Policy

NBER Working Paper No. w9274
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 11 Oct 2002 Last Revised: 05 Nov 2022
Christina D. Romer and David H. Romer
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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A Rehabilitation of Monetary Policy in the 1950s

NBER Working Paper No. w8800
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 21 Feb 2002 Last Revised: 20 Jul 2022
Christina D. Romer and David H. Romer
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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The Incentive Effects of Marginal Tax Rates: Evidence from the Interwar Era

NBER Working Paper No. w17860
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 24 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 26 Oct 2022
Christina D. Romer and David H. Romer
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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Inflation and the Growth Rate of Output

NBER Working Paper No. w5575
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 23 Sep 1996 Last Revised: 26 Sep 2022
Christina D. Romer
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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Remeasuring Business Cycles

NBER Working Paper No. w4150
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 04 May 2007 Last Revised: 05 Nov 2022
Christina D. Romer
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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Credit Channel or Credit Actions? an Interpretation of the Postwar Transmission Mechanism

NBER Working Paper No. w4485
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 04 Aug 2000 Last Revised: 05 Oct 2022
Christina D. Romer and David H. Romer
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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Was the Federal Reserve Fettered? Devaluation Expectations in the 1932 Monetary Expansion

NBER Working Paper No. w8113
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 03 Feb 2001 Last Revised: 03 Sep 2022
Chang-Tai Hsieh and Christina D. Romer
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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New Evidence on the Impact of Financial Crises in Advanced Countries

NBER Working Paper No. w21021
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 16 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 10 Dec 2022
Christina D. Romer and David H. Romer
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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Choosing the Federal Reserve Chair: Lessons from History

NBER Working Paper No. w10161
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 23 Dec 2003 Last Revised: 08 Oct 2022
Christina D. Romer and David H. Romer
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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Federal Reserve Private Information and the Behavior of Interest Rates

NBER Working Paper No. w5692
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 04 Nov 1996 Last Revised: 23 Jul 2022
Christina D. Romer and David H. Romer
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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Institutions for Monetary Stability

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Institutions for Monetary Stability

NBER Working Paper No. w5557
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 15 Jul 1996 Last Revised: 10 Mar 2022
Christina D. Romer and David H. Romer
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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Institutions for Monetary Stability

REDUCING INFLATION: MOTIVATION AND STRATEGY, Christina D. Romer and David H. Romer, eds., Chicago: University of Chicago Press for NBER
Posted: 30 Sep 1996
Christina D. Romer and David H. Romer
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics

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Transfer Payments and the Macroeconomy: the Effects of Social Security Benefit Changes, 1952-1991

NBER Working Paper No. w20087
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 06 May 2014 Last Revised: 22 May 2022
Christina D. Romer and David H. Romer
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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A New Monthly Index of Industrial Production, 1884-1940

NBER Working Paper No. w3172
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 28 Dec 2006 Last Revised: 03 Sep 2022
Jeffrey A. Miron and Christina D. Romer
Harvard University - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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Historical Perspectives on the Monetary Transmission Mechanism

NBER Working Paper No. w4326
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 26 May 2004 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2022
Jeffrey A. Miron, Christina D. Romer and David N. Weil
Harvard University - Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics and Brown University - Department of Economics
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The Prewar Business Cycle Reconsidered: New Estimates of Gross Nationalproduct, 1869-1918

NBER Working Paper No. w1969
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 16 Jul 2004 Last Revised: 20 Nov 2022
Christina D. Romer
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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Existing Estimates, New Estimates, and New Interpretations of World War I and its Aftermath

NBER Working Paper No. w2187
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 09 Jan 2007 Last Revised: 25 Dec 2022
Christina D. Romer
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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Why Some Times are Different: Macroeconomic Policy and the Aftermath of Financial Crises

NBER Working Paper No. w23931
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 16 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 21 Nov 2022
Christina D. Romer and David H. Romer
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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The FOMC Versus the Staff: Where Can Monetary Policymakers Add Value?

NBER Working Paper No. w13751
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 24 Jan 2008 Last Revised: 30 Jul 2022
Christina D. Romer and David H. Romer
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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Changes in the Cyclical Behavior of Individual Production Series

NBER Working Paper No. w2440
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 11 Sep 2001 Last Revised: 03 Sep 2022
Christina D. Romer
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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Fiscal Space and the Aftermath of Financial Crises: How it Matters and Why

NBER Working Paper No. w25768
Number of pages: 83 Posted: 22 Apr 2019 Last Revised: 28 Nov 2022
Christina D. Romer and David H. Romer
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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The Missing Transmission Mechanism in the Monetary Explanation of the Great Depression

NBER Working Paper No. w18746
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 26 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 23 Mar 2023
Christina D. Romer and David H. Romer
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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