Manufacturers' finished goods inventories are less cyclical than shipments. This requires marginal cost to be more procyclical than is conventionally measured. In this paper, alternative marginal cost measures for six manufacturing industries are constructed. These measures, which attribute...

In this paper we revisit the issues addressed in Crucini and Kahn (1996) in the light of recent research on the Great Depression. In that paper we had argued that particular features of the Hawley-Smoot tariffs could have provided them with a stronger impact than conventional wisdom had held,...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rochester. Dept. of Economics, 2011.

We introduce procyclical labor and capital utilization, as well as costs of rapidly increasing employment, into a business-cycle model. Plausible variations in factor utilization enable us to explain observed variability of real GNP with considerably smaller economy-wide disturbances. The costs...

Remarks at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business Annual U.S. Monetary Policy Forum, New York City.

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

Remarks hosted by the Institute of Regulation & Risk North Asia, Hong Kong

Remarks at the IIF Annual Meeting of Latin America Chief Executives, Santiago, Chile.

Remarks by President Dudley at the Foreign Policy Association Corporate Dinner, New York City.