Simon Wren-Lewis
Professor of Economics
College or Institution: Merton College
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Research Interests
Summary: Macroeconomic theory and policy, international macroeconomics, economic methodology.
I am currently working on the following areas in macroeconomics: social welfare measures derived from utility, implications of distorted steady states (including inflation bias) and distortionary shocks (e.g. UIP shocks) , stability under alternative monetary regimes, monetary and fiscal policy interaction, fiscal policy as a stabilisation tool, optimal debt stabilisation, alternative fiscal institutions, equilibrium exchange rates, and the methodology of macroeconomics.
Research Group(s)
Recent Working Papers
- What should fiscal councils do? (2011)
- Comparing the delegation of monetary and fiscal policy (2011)
- Debt Stabilization in a Non-Ricardian Economy (2011)
- Electoral Uncertainty, the Deficit Bias and the Electoral Cycle in a New Keynesian Economy (2009)
- Internal Consistency, Nominal Inertia and the Microfoundation of Macroeconomics (2009)
- When is Monetary Policy All we Need? (2009)
- The possible macroeconomic impact on the UK of an influenza pandemic (2009)
- The Optimal Monetary Policy Response to Exchange Rate Misalignments (2007)
- Optimal Fiscal Feedback on Debt in an Economy with Nominal Rigidities (2007)
- Fiscal Sustainability in a New Keynesian Model (2007)
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