Vivien Lewis

Economist

Ghent University and National Bank of Belgium

Department of Financial Economics
W. Wilsonplein 5D
9000 Gent
Belgium

Manuscripts and Work in Progress

Fiscal Policy and Inflation in a Monetary Union. Joint with José Miguel Cardoso da Costa.

Entry and the Monetary Transmission Mechanism: An Empirical Evaluation. Joint with Gert Peersman and Céline Poilly.

Product Diversity, Market Structure and Optimal Taxation, November 2009. [ Model Appendix ]

More or Less Aggressive? Robust Monetary Policy in a New Keynesian Model with Financial Distress, July 2009, Joint with Rafael Gerke and Felix Hammermann. Deutsche Bundesbank Discussion Paper 23/2009. Submitted.

Optimal Monetary Policy and Firm Entry, August 2009, Ghent University Working Paper 09/604, National Bank of Belgium Working Paper 178. Revise and resubmit. [ Technical Appendix ]

Publications

Lewis, Vivien and Agnieszka Markiewicz (2009), Misspecification, Learning and the Exchange Rate Disconnect Puzzle, The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics 9(1) (Topics), Article 13.
Also available as Ghent University Working Paper 09/563, National Bank of Belgium Working Paper 168. [ Matlab codes ]

Lewis, Vivien (2009), Business Cycle Evidence on Firm Entry, Macroeconomic Dynamics 13(5), 605-624, November.
Also available as Ghent University Working Paper 08/539, Deutsche Bundesbank Discussion Paper 8/2008 (revision of National Bank of Belgium Working Paper 103).

Lewis, Vivien (2007), Productivity and the Euro-Dollar Real Exchange Rate, Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv) 127(2), 324-348.

Older Papers

Lewis, Vivien (2006), Macroeconomic Fluctuations and Firm Entry: Theory and Evidence, National Bank of Belgium Working Paper 103.

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