Giorgio E. Primiceri

Northwestern University - Department of Economics

2003 Sheridan Road

Evanston, IL 60208

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1.

Time Varying Structural Vector Autoregressions and Monetary Policy

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 08 Jan 2003
Giorgio E. Primiceri
Northwestern University - Department of Economics
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Time varying coefficients, multivariate stochastic volatility, Gibbs sampling, Taylor rule, monetary policy shocks, identification

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Investment Shocks and Business Cycles

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Investment Shocks and Business Cycles

FRB of New York Staff Report No. 322, FRB of Chicago Working Paper No. 2008-12
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 27 Mar 2008
Alejandro Justiniano, Giorgio E. Primiceri and Andrea Tambalotti
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Northwestern University - Department of Economics and Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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DSGE model, imperfect competition, endogenous markups, Bayesian methods, Business Cycles, Bayesian Estimation

Investment Shocks and Business Cycles

NBER Working Paper No. w15570
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 08 Dec 2009 Last Revised: 19 Jul 2010
Giorgio E. Primiceri and Andrea Tambalotti
Northwestern University - Department of Economics and Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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Investment Shocks and Business Cycles

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP6739
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 11 Jun 2008
Giorgio E. Primiceri, Andrea Tambalotti and Alejandro Justiniano
Northwestern University - Department of Economics, Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
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Bayesian, DSGE model, endogenous markups, imperfect competition

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Measuring the Equilibrium Real Interest Rate

Economic Perspectives, Vol. XXXIV, No. 1, 2010
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 11 Mar 2010
Alejandro Justiniano and Giorgio E. Primiceri
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and Northwestern University - Department of Economics
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real interest rate, potential output, structural models, state-space representation, Model Construction and Estimation, Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics, Monetary Policy

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Time-Varying Structural Vector Autoregressions and Monetary Policy: A Corrigendum

FRB of New York Staff Report No. 619
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 18 May 2013
Marco Del Negro and Giorgio E. Primiceri
Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Northwestern University - Department of Economics
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Bayesian methods, time varying volatility

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Inequality Over the Business Cycle: Estimating Income Risk Using Micro-Data on Consumption

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 11 Sep 2002
Giorgio E. Primiceri and Thijs van Rens
Northwestern University - Department of Economics and University of Warwick - Department of Economics
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consumption, inequality, risk, incomplete markets, business cycle

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Inflation-Gap Persistence in the U.S

NBER Working Paper No. w13749
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 24 Jan 2008 Last Revised: 28 Jul 2010
Timothy Cogley, Giorgio E. Primiceri and Thomas J. Sargent
Leonard N. Stern School of Business - Department of Economics, Northwestern University - Department of Economics and New York University (NYU) - Department of Economics, Leonard N. Stern School of Business
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Credit Supply and the Housing Boom

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Credit Supply and the Housing Boom

NBER Working Paper No. w20874
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 27 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 07 May 2015
Alejandro Justiniano, Giorgio E. Primiceri and Andrea Tambalotti
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Northwestern University - Department of Economics and Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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Credit Supply and the Housing Boom

FRB of New York Staff Report No. 709
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 11 Feb 2015
Alejandro Justiniano, Giorgio E. Primiceri and Andrea Tambalotti
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Northwestern University - Department of Economics and Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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housing and credit boom, house prices, collateral constraints, leverage restrictions

Credit Supply and the Housing Boom

FRB of New York Staff Report No. 709
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 18 Aug 2015
Alejandro Justiniano, Giorgio E. Primiceri and Andrea Tambalotti
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Northwestern University - Department of Economics and Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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housing and credit boom, house prices, collateral constraints, leverage restrictions

Credit Supply and the Housing Boom

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP10358
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 02 Feb 2015
Alejandro Justiniano, Giorgio E. Primiceri and Andrea Tambalotti
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Northwestern University - Department of Economics and Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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collateral constraints, house prices, housing and credit boom, leverage restrictions

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Credit Supply and the Housing Boom

FRB of Chicago Working Paper No. 2014-21
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 19 Dec 2014
Alejandro Justiniano, Giorgio E. Primiceri and Andrea Tambalotti
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Northwestern University - Department of Economics and Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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Credit Supply, Housing Boom, Borrowing Constraints, Lending Constraints, Household Debt

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Predictable Life-Cycle Shocks, Income Risk and Consumption Inequality

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 02 Apr 2006
Giorgio E. Primiceri and Thijs van Rens
Northwestern University - Department of Economics and University of Warwick - Department of Economics
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consumption, inequality, risk, heterogeneous income profiles

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Prior Selection for Vector Autoregressions

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Prior Selection for Vector Autoregressions

ECB Working Paper No. 1494
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 22 Nov 2012
Domenico Giannone, Michele Lenza and Giorgio E. Primiceri
Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of New York, European Central Bank (ECB) and Northwestern University - Department of Economics
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forecasting, Bayesian methods, marginal likelihood, hierarchical modeling, impulse responses

Prior Selection for Vector Autoregressions

NBER Working Paper No. w18467
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 20 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 05 Nov 2012
Domenico Giannone, Michele Lenza and Giorgio E. Primiceri
Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of New York, European Central Bank (ECB) and Northwestern University - Department of Economics
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Prior Selection for Vector Autoregressions

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP8755
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 20 Jan 2012
Domenico Giannone, Michele Lenza and Giorgio E. Primiceri
Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of New York, European Central Bank (ECB) and Northwestern University - Department of Economics
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Bayesian Methods, Forecasting, Hierarchical Modeling, Impulse Responses, Marginal Likelihood

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Economic Predictions with Big Data: The Illusion of Sparsity

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Economic Predictions with Big Data: The Illusion of Sparsity

FRB of New York Staff Report No. 847
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 07 May 2018
Domenico Giannone, Michele Lenza and Giorgio E. Primiceri
Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of New York, European Central Bank (ECB) and Northwestern University - Department of Economics
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model selection, shrinkage, high dimensional data

Economic Predictions with Big Data: The Illusion of Sparsity

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP12256
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 11 Sep 2017
Domenico Giannone, Michele Lenza and Giorgio E. Primiceri
Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of New York, European Central Bank (ECB) and Northwestern University - Department of Economics
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Intertemporal Disturbances

NBER Working Paper No. w12243
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 25 May 2006 Last Revised: 31 Jul 2006
Giorgio E. Primiceri, Ernst Schaumburg and Andrea Tambalotti
Northwestern University - Department of Economics, Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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Household Leveraging and Deleveraging

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Household Leveraging and Deleveraging

FRB of New York Staff Report No. 602
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 06 Mar 2013
Alejandro Justiniano, Giorgio E. Primiceri and Andrea Tambalotti
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Northwestern University - Department of Economics and Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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household debt, mortgages, house prices

Household Leveraging and Deleveraging

NBER Working Paper No. w18941
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 05 Apr 2013
Alejandro Justiniano, Alejandro Justiniano, Giorgio E. Primiceri and Andrea Tambalotti
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Northwestern University - Department of Economics and Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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Household Leveraging and Deleveraging

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP9671
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 07 Oct 2013
Alejandro Justiniano, Giorgio E. Primiceri and Andrea Tambalotti
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Northwestern University - Department of Economics and Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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Collateral constraints, Financial liberalization, House prices, Household debt

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Heterogeneous Life-Cycle Profiles, Income Risk and Consumption Inequality

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Heterogeneous Life-Cycle Profiles, Income Risk and Consumption Inequality

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 24 Jul 2007
Giorgio E. Primiceri and Thijs van Rens
Northwestern University - Department of Economics and University of Warwick - Department of Economics
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Consumption, inequality, risk, incomplete markets, heterogeneous income profiles

Heterogeneous Life-Cycle Profiles, Income Risk and Consumption Inequality

IZA Working Paper No. 3239
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 23 May 2008
Giorgio E. Primiceri and Thijs van Rens
Northwestern University - Department of Economics and University of Warwick - Department of Economics
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consumption, inequality, risk, incomplete markets, heterogeneity

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The Time Varying Volatility of Macroeconomic Fluctuations

NBER Working Paper No. w12022
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 27 Apr 2006 Last Revised: 02 Jul 2009
Giorgio E. Primiceri and Alejandro Justiniano
Northwestern University - Department of Economics and Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
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The Mortgage Rate Conundrum

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The Mortgage Rate Conundrum

FRB of NY Staff Report No. 829
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 17 Nov 2017
Alejandro Justiniano, Giorgio E. Primiceri and Andrea Tambalotti
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Northwestern University - Department of Economics and Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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credit boom, housing boom, securitization, private label, subprime

The Mortgage Rate Conundrum

FRB of Chicago Working Paper No. WP-2017-23
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 10 Nov 2017
Alejandro Justiniano, Giorgio E. Primiceri and Andrea Tambalotti
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Northwestern University - Department of Economics and Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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Credit boom, housing boom, mortgage loans, securitization, private label, subprime

The Mortgage Rate Conundrum

NBER Working Paper No. w23784
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 11 Sep 2017
Alejandro Justiniano, Giorgio E. Primiceri and Andrea Tambalotti
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Northwestern University - Department of Economics and Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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The Mortgage Rate Conundrum

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP12265
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 11 Sep 2017
Alejandro Justiniano, Giorgio E. Primiceri and Andrea Tambalotti
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Northwestern University - Department of Economics and Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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Credit boom, housing boom, private label, Securitization, subprime.

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Investment Shocks and the Relative Price of Investment

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Investment Shocks and the Relative Price of Investment

FRB of New York Staff Report No. 411
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 15 Dec 2009
Alejandro Justiniano, Giorgio E. Primiceri and Andrea Tambalotti
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Northwestern University - Department of Economics and Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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business cycles, financial factors, investment specific technology, DSGE model

Investment Shocks and the Relative Price of Investment

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP7598
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 11 Jan 2010
Alejandro Justiniano, Giorgio E. Primiceri and Andrea Tambalotti
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Northwestern University - Department of Economics and Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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Business cycles, DSGE model, financial factors, investment-specific technology

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Learning the Wealth of Nations

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Learning the Wealth of Nations

NBER Working Paper No. w14595
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 29 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 02 Jun 2009
Francisco J. Buera, Alexander Monge-Naranjo and Giorgio E. Primiceri
Washington University in St. Louis, Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and Northwestern University - Department of Economics
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Learning the Wealth of Nations

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP8030
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 22 Nov 2010
Francisco J. Buera, Alexander Monge-Naranjo and Giorgio E. Primiceri
Washington University in St. Louis, Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and Northwestern University - Department of Economics
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beliefs, development, growth, market-oriented policy

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Priors for the Long Run

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Priors for the Long Run

ECB Working Paper No. 2132; ISBN: 978-92-899-3237-0
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 01 Mar 2018
Domenico Giannone, Michele Lenza and Giorgio E. Primiceri
Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of New York, European Central Bank (ECB) and Northwestern University - Department of Economics
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Bayesian vector autoregression, forecasting, overfitting, initial conditions, hierarchical model

Priors for the Long Run

FRB of NY Staff Report No. 832
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 26 Nov 2017
Domenico Giannone, Michele Lenza and Giorgio E. Primiceri
Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of New York, European Central Bank (ECB) and Northwestern University - Department of Economics
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Bayesian vector autoregression, forecasting, overfitting, initial conditions, hierarchical model

Priors for the Long Run

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP11261
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 09 May 2016
Domenico Giannone, Michele Lenza and Giorgio E. Primiceri
Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of New York, European Central Bank (ECB) and Northwestern University - Department of Economics
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Why Inflation Rose and Fell: Policymakers' Beliefs and Us Postwar Stabilization Policy

NBER Working Paper No. w11147
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 16 Mar 2005 Last Revised: 08 Aug 2009
Giorgio E. Primiceri
Northwestern University - Department of Economics
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A Simple Model of Subprime Borrowers and Credit Growth

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A Simple Model of Subprime Borrowers and Credit Growth

FRB of NY Staff Report No. 766
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 04 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 30 Aug 2017
Alejandro Justiniano, Giorgio E. Primiceri and Andrea Tambalotti
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Northwestern University - Department of Economics and Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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home prices, housing boom, household debt, credit supply, collateral constraints

A Simple Model of Subprime Borrowers and Credit Growth

NBER Working Paper No. w21942
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 01 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 18 Jun 2018
Alejandro Justiniano, Giorgio E. Primiceri and Andrea Tambalotti
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Northwestern University - Department of Economics and Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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A Simple Model of Subprime Borrowers and Credit Growth

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP11083
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 02 Feb 2016
Alejandro Justiniano, Giorgio E. Primiceri and Andrea Tambalotti
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Northwestern University - Department of Economics and Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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collateral constraint, credit supply, house price, household debt, housing boom

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The Effects of the Saving and Banking Glut on the U.S. Economy

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The Effects of the Saving and Banking Glut on the U.S. Economy

NBER Working Paper No. w19635
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 16 Nov 2013
Alejandro Justiniano, Giorgio E. Primiceri and Andrea Tambalotti
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Northwestern University - Department of Economics and Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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The Effects of the Saving and Banking Glut on the U.S. Economy

FRB of Chicago Working Paper No. 2013-17
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 14 Dec 2013
Alejandro Justiniano, Giorgio E. Primiceri and Andrea Tambalotti
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Northwestern University - Department of Economics and Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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Deleveraging, House Prices, Saving Glut, Banking Glut

The Effects of the Saving and Banking Glut on the U.S. Economy

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP9729
Posted: 14 Nov 2013
Giorgio E. Primiceri and Andrea Tambalotti
Northwestern University - Department of Economics and Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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Capital flows, Collateral constraints, Global imbalances, House prices, Household debt

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Is There a Trade-Off between Inflation and Output Stabilization?

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Is There a Trade-Off between Inflation and Output Stabilization?

NBER Working Paper No. w17071
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 23 May 2011 Last Revised: 11 Nov 2013
Thomas Juster, Alejandro Justiniano, Giorgio E. Primiceri and Andrea Tambalotti
University of Oxford, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Northwestern University - Department of Economics and Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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Is There a Trade-Off between Inflation and Output Stabilization?

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP8407
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 06 Jun 2011
Alejandro Justiniano, Giorgio E. Primiceri and Andrea Tambalotti
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Northwestern University - Department of Economics and Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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optimal policy, output gap, potential output

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The Effects of the Saving and Banking Glut on the U.S. Economy

FRB of New York Staff Report No. 648
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 24 Oct 2013
Alejandro Justiniano, Giorgio E. Primiceri and Andrea Tambalotti
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Northwestern University - Department of Economics and Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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U.S. Trade Deficit, household debt

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Heterogenous Life-Cycle Profiles, Income Risk and Consumption Inequality

CEPR Discussion Paper No. 5881
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 28 Dec 2006
Giorgio E. Primiceri and Thijs van Rens
Northwestern University - Department of Economics and University of Warwick - Department of Economics
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Consumption, inequality, risk, incomplete markets, heterogeneity