Robert  G. Murphy

Associate Professor

Assistant Chair

Department of Economics

Boston College

Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

(617) 552 3688 | murphyro@bc.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Course Information:

ECON 2204 Macroeconomic Theory

ECON 4498 Honors Seminar

UNCS 2245.19  Freshman Topic Seminar:  Advising the President - Macro Policy and the Council of Economic Advisers

Recent Publications:

Can the Phillips Curve Explain Inflation over the Past Half-Century? International Advances in Economic Research (2019) 25:137-149.  Final Working Paper version.

Rational Bias in Inflation Expectations,  Eastern Economic Journal (2018) 44: 153-171.  Final Working Paper version.

Explaining Inflation in the Aftermath of the Great Recession,  Journal of Macroeconomics 40 (2014) 228-244.  Final Working Paper version.

Instructor's Resources for Macroeconomics Tenth Edition, by N. G. Mankiw, Worth Publishers, New York, NY,  2019. (Table of Contents)

Recent Working Papers:

Why Has Inflation Been So Unresponsive to Economic Activity in Recent Years? Boston College Working Papers in Economics, 920, Revised October 2016. 

Rational Bias in Inflation Expectations, Boston College Working Papers in Economics, 857, Revised September 2015,  SSRN Abstract.

Explaining Inflation in the Aftermath of the Great Recession, Boston College Working Papers in Economics, 823, Revised January 2014.

Government Policy and the Effectiveness of Foreign Aid, Boston College Working Papers in Economics, 647, Revised August 2006.