priorities reported by students of economics are different from those reported by students from other fields: Economists …Several recent studies found that the behaviour of economists was less cooperative than the behaviour of non-economists …. Other studies found, however, that economists behaved no differently than other individuals. In this Paper, we study this …

Economists often play crucial roles in designing and implementing public policies; thus it is of importance to better … understand the values that underlie their decisions. We explore the value hierarchies of economists in four studies: The first … two studies examine whether value differences exist between students of economics and other social sciences students. The …

We study the determination of Irish inflation between 1926 and 2012. The difference between unemployment and the NAIRU … is a significant determinant of inflation in a simple backward-looking Phillips Curve that incorporates import prices …

This paper presents a theory of the monetary transmission mechanism in a monetary version of Farmer’s (2009) model in …

. This finding is important for policy considerations on effective taxation and for financial economics research on the long …

accurate forecasts. We use the model to study the pass-through of an oil shock and to study the evolution of inflation during …

We study economic growth and inflation at different levels of government and external debt. Our analysis is based on … roughly cut in half. Third, there is no apparent contemporaneous link between inflation and public debt levels for the … advanced countries as a group (some countries, such as the United States, have experienced higher inflation when debt/GDP is …

macroeconomic forecasts. We produce real time out-of-sample forecasts for inflation, the unemployment rate and the interest rate … predictions for the three variables. In particular for inflation the TV-VAR outperforms, in terms of mean square forecast error … also shown to hold over the most recent period in which it has been hard to forecast inflation. …

plays no role. Trust does play a role but requires a lower bound on efficiency. Stationary inflation must be positive and …