Remarks at the Quarterly Regional Economic Press Briefing, New York City.

Remarks at Panel Discussion at 2012 U.S. Monetary Policy Forum, New York City.

We study the the emergence of multiple equilibria in models with capital and bonds under various monetary and fiscal policies. We show that the presence of capital is indeed another independent source of local and global multiplicites, even under active policies that yield local determinacy. We...

This paper focuses on the role of government capital as a critical productive input when the level of services that the agent derives from it is subject to congestion. I develop a two-sector “non-scale†production model in which there are two types of firms, conventional...

This paper develops and simulates a three-period life-cycle model with aggregate uncertainty. The model incudes a market in risk-free bonds. The paper studies how uncertainty in fiscal policy affects welfare, the equity premium, risk-sharing, and the caculation of generational accounts.

The monetary instrument problem is examined in an endowment economy model with various stochastic disturbances, with minimizing the variance of inflation as the policy objective. Following current developments in the theory of fiscal determination of the price level, for different monetary...

Remarks at the Japan Society, New York City.

Remarks at the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York.

Remarks at Queens Chamber of Commerce and Queens Economic Development Corporation, Flushing, New York City.

Remarks at Queens College, Flushing, New York.