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Chair in Macroeconomics
Sidgwick Avenue
Cambridge CB3 9DD
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 1223 335235
Email: gc422 at cam.ac.uk

Until June 30 2012, I will be at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences NIAS in Wassenaar, the Netherlands

A new voxeu debate: Has Austerity gone too far?


  • With interventions by Alberto Alesina and Francesco Giavazzi, Brad de Long, Manfred Neumann, Harald Uhlig, Carlo Cottarelli, Marco Buti and Lucio Pench, John Van Reenen...

On the crisis in the euro area


  • Increasing sovereign risk translates into higher borrowing costs for the private sector. What are the macroeconomic costs and risks in delaying budget corrections at national level, and defining a coordinated, effective and convincing strategy at the euro-area level? Sovereign risk and the effects of fiscal retrenchment in deep recessionswith Keith Kuester, Andre' Meier, and Gernot Mueller, IMF WP 12/33
VOXEU: 
Sovereign risk, macroeconomic instability, Giancarlo Corsetti, Gernot Müller , 12 August 2011. With sharply rising sovereign risk spreads, few governments can consider their public finances beyond doubt. This column in VOXEU.ORG explores the macroeconomic consequences when sovereign risk is high.

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    In case you have missed them:
    • The revised version (July 2011):  Fiscal Stimulus with Spending Reversals, with A Meier and Gernot Mueller (IMF working paper 09106CEPR DP 7302), now forthcoming in the Review of Economics and Statistics Includes an interesting comparison of Blanchard Perotti and Ramey results.
    • Is fiscal policy more effective under fixed exchange rates? Is it really ineffective in small open economies? The answer in "Floats, Pegs and the Transmission of Fiscal Policy," joint with K Kuester and G Mueller, new version 2011. Originally presented at the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Central Bank of Chile, October 21 22, 2010, Fiscal Policy and Macroeconomic Performance. CEPR DP 8180    Working Papers Central Bank of Chile 608, Central Bank of Chile. The paper characterizes the fiscal multiplier under fixed exchange rates/in a monetary union. Great discussion by Fabio Ghironi.
    • A Wharton-EUI e-book: Life in the eurozone: with or without default?, a Wharton-EUI e-book, edited together with Franklin Allen and Elena Carletti, under the auspices of the Pierre Werner Chair Programme for Monetary Union at the European University Institute, and part of the project ‘Politics, Economics and Global Governance: The European Dimensions’ (PEGGED) funded by the European Commission under its Seventh Framework Programme for Research (Collaborative Project), 2011

    Monetary policy
    • Optimal monetary policy in open economies joint with Luca Dedola and Sylvain Leduc, published in the Handbook of Monetary Economics, vol. III, Edited by Ben Friedman and Michael Woodford, 2010. NOTE: I KEEP THIS COPY CLEAN OF TYPOS (SEE ALSO  HANDBOOK: ERRATA)
    • `Demand Imbalances, Exchange Rates Misalignment and Monetary Policy joint with Luca Dedola and Sylvain Leduc, mimeo 2010
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