Publications

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Books

• The Economy: Economics for a Changing World. 2017 free online and Oxford University Press. (with the CORE team authors)
• Macroeconomics: Institutions, Instability and the Financial System. 2015. Oxford University Press. (with David Soskice)
• Macroeconomics: Imperfections, Institutions and Policies. 2006. 851pp. Oxford University Press. (with David Soskice)
• Macroeconomics and the Wage Bargain: A Modern Approach to Employment, Inflation and the Exchange Rate, 1990, 482pp. Oxford University Press. (with David Soskice)

Journal Articles

• ‘Soviet power plus electrification : what is the long-run legacy of communism ?’ (with Mark Schaffer and Paul Seabright) Explorations in Economic History (2012) Available online 20 July 2012. Available here
• ‘Real exchange rate adjustment, wage-setting institutions, and fiscal stabilization policy: lessons of the eurozone’s first decade’ CESifo Economic Studies (2012) Available online June 30, 2012. Available here
• ‘Institutions and economic reforms’ (2010) Review of Economics and Institutions, Vol. 1 No. 1 Article 2. Available here
• ‘German economic performance: disentangling the role of supply-side reforms, macroeconomic policy and coordinated economy institutions’ (with David Soskice) (2009) Socio-Economic Review; Vol. 7, Issue 1, pp. 67-99 doi: 10.1093/ser/mwn021. Available here. This has been followed up in the research project at the Center for European Studies at Harvard (2008-2010) and will be republished in the book: Andrew Martin and Jon-Erik Dolvik eds. (2013) Jobs With Justice? The Politics and Economics of Change in European Social Models
• ‘Apportez-moi un rayon de soleil : quelles parties du climat des affaires les politiques publiques devraient-elles essayer de corriger ?’ (with Paul Seabright) in Revue d'économie du développement 2008/4 (Vol. 22).
• ‘The 3-equation New Keynesian model --- A graphical exposition’, (with David Soskice) (2005) Contributions to Macroeconomics: Vol. 5: No. 1, Article 13. Available here
• ‘A minimum of rivalry: evidence from transition economies on the importance of competition for innovation and growth’, (with Mark Schaffer and Paul Seabright) (2004) Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy: Vol. 3: No. 1, Article 17. Available here
• ‘Finance, investment and growth’ (with Colin Mayer) (2003) Journal of Financial Economics 69 (1). 191-226.
• ‘International evidence on corporate governance: lessons for developing countries’ (with Colin Mayer) (2002). Journal of African Economies Supplement 1, 11(0), 37-59.'
• 'Export market performance of OECD countries: an empirical examination of the role of cost competitiveness'. Economic Journal, 111: 128-162.
• 'Understanding ‘the essential fact about capitalism’: Markets, competition and creative destruction’ (with Jonathan Haskel and Paul Seabright) (2001) National Institute Economic Review, No. 175 (January), 70-87
• ‘How do financial systems affect economic performance?’ (with Colin Mayer) in X. Vives (ed.) (2000), Corporate Governance: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives, New York: CUP. 137-168.; reprinted in Corporate Governance Regimes – Convergence and Diversity edited by Joseph A. McCahery, Piet Moerland, Theo Raaijmakers, and Luc Renneboog, (2002) Oxford: OUP.
• ‘Measuring progress in transition and towards EU accession: A comparison of manufacturing firms in Poland, Romania and Spain’, (with Saul Estrin and Mark Schaffer) Journal of Common Market Studies (2000). Vol. 38, No. 5, 699-728.
• ‘The new East German economy: problems of transition, unification and institutional mis-match’ German Politics vol. 7, no. 3, December 1998. Published as well in C. Flockton and E. Kolinsky (eds) (1999) Recasting East Germany. Frank Cass: London. 14-32.
• ‘From theory into practice? Restructuring and dynamism in transition economies’ (with Michael Landesmann) Oxford Review of Economic Policy (1997). Vol. 13, No. 2, 77-105.
• ‘Will East Germany become a new Mezzogiorno?’ (with Andrea Boltho and Pasquale Scaramozzino) Journal of Comparative Economics (1997) Vol. 24, 241-264. Also published as ‘La Germania orientale sarà un nuovo Mezzogiorno?’ Rivista economica del Mezzogiorno (1997) a. XI, n.2, pp. 381-415. Also published in John Adams and Francesco Pigliaru (ed.) Economic Growth and Change. National and Regional Patterns of Convergence and Divergence (1999) Edward Elgar Economics: Cheltenham. 323-348.
• ‘Shocks to the system: the German political economy under stress’ (with David Soskice) National Institute Economic Review. 1/97 no. 159, 57-76.
• ‘The economics of enterprise restructuring in Eastern Europe’ (with Philippe Aghion and Olivier Blanchard) in J. Roemer (ed) Property Relations, Incentives and Welfare. Proceedings of the IEA Conference. Macmillan, 1997, 271-318.
• ‘Restructuring outcomes and the evolution of ownership patterns in Central and Eastern Europe’ (with Philippe Aghion) (1996) Economics of Transition Vol. 4 No. 2. 371-388. Another version was published in S. Zecchini (ed.) (1997) Lessons from the Economic Transition: Central and Eastern Europe in the 1990s Dordrecht: Kluwer.
• ‘The structure and ownership of East German enterprises’ (with Colin Mayer) (1995) Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 9, 426-453. (Also published by the Anglo-German Foundation in their Report series (1996) in English and in German.)
• ‘Finance, economic development and the transition: the East German case’ (with Peter Richthofen) Economics of Transition (1995) Vol. 3 No. 2. 169-95.
• ‘Enterprise restructuring in early transition: the case study evidence’ (with John Van Reenen and Toby Wolfe) (1995) Economics of Transition Vol. 3 No. 4. 427-458.
• ‘Privatization in East Germany: 1990-1992’, German History 1992. (A reply to this was published: Jörg Roesler, ‘Privatization alone cannot solve east Germany's economic problems’. Reflections on Wendy Carlin's article ‘Privatization in East Germany 1990‑2’, German History, vol. 12, no. 1, Feb. 1994, 64‑75. Reply: Wendy Carlin, ‘Wages, Privatization and Industrial Collapse: a Reply to Jörg Roesler’, German History vol. 12, no. 2, June 1994, 190‑6.).
• ‘The Treuhandanstalt: privatization by state and market’ in O. Blanchard, K. Froot, J. Sachs (eds) The Transition in Eastern Europe: Volume 2: Restructuring Chicago: Chicago University Press and NBER, 1994. 189-213 (with Colin Mayer).
• ‘Restructuring enterprises in Eastern Europe’. 1992 (with Colin Mayer) Economic Policy No. 15. 311-352.
• ‘Austerity policy in West Germany: origins and consequences’, Economie Appliquee, XLII, 1, 1989. 203-238. (with R. Jacob)

Chapters in Books

• ‘The Transformation of the German Model’ (with Anke Hassel, Andrew Martin and David Soskice), (2015) in Jon Erik Dølvik and Andrew Martin (ed) European Social Models From Crisis to Crisis: Employment and Inequality in the Era of Monetary Integration, OUP 2015.
• ‘Reclaiming the supply-side agenda: innovation, redistribution and labour-absorbing services’, (2013) in Olaf Cramme, Patrick Diamond and Michael McTernan (eds) Progressive Politics after the Crash, I.B. Taurus New York.
• 'The business environment in the transition' (with Mark Schaffer) (2012), in Paul Hare and Gerard Turley (ed.) The Economics and Political Economy of Transition Handbook. Routledge 2012.
• 'Rebuilding a tradeables sector: the binding constraint in the East German transition', (2012), in Paul Hare and Gerard Turley (ed.) The Economics and Political Economy of Transition Handbook. Routledge 2012.
• ‘Reforming the macroeconomics curriculum’ in Diane Coyle (ed) What’s the Use of Economics: Teaching the Dismal Science after the Crisis London Publishing Partnership 2012
• Wendy Carlin, Robert J. Gordon and Robert M. Solow (2012), "Round table discussion: where is macro going?", in Robert M. Solow and Jean-Philippe Touffut (eds), What's Right with Macroeconomics?, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar, forthcoming.
• ‘Heterogeneity in the euro-zone and why it matters for the future of the currency union’ in Miroslav Beblavy, David Cobham and Ludovit Odor, eds., The euro area and the financial crisis, Cambridge University Press. 2011.
• 'Good Institutions are not enough: Ongoing Challenges of East German Development' in 20 Jahre Deutsche Einheit: Von der Transformation zur europaischen Integration, Tagungsband, 3/2010 Sonderheft Institut fur Wirtschaftsforschung Halle. ISBN 978-3-941501-05-8 pp. 9-31 2010 CESifo Working Paper Series No. 3204
• ‘Teaching Intermediate Macroeconomics Using the 3-Equation Model’, in Giuseppe Fontana and Mark Setterfield (Eds). Macroeconomic Theory and Macroeconomic Pedagogy. Palgrave MacMillan. 2009
• ‘Bring Me Sunshine: Which Parts of the Business Climate Should Public Policy Try to Fix?’, in J. Lin and B. Pleskovic (Ed.) Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics: Private Sector and Development. Washington D.C. : World Bank. (with Paul Seabright) 2009.
• ‘Ownership, Corporate Governance, Specialization and Performance: Interpreting Recent Evidence for OECD Countries’, in Jean-Philippe Touffut (ed.) Does Company Ownership Matter? Efficiency and Growth London: Edward Elgar; also published in French in Les formes de propriété de l'entreprise : efficacité et croissance Paris: Albin Michel. 2009.
• ‘Reformen, macroökonomische Politik under Wirtschaftsentwicklung Deutschland’ in Schettkat, R., Langkau, J. (Hrgs.) (2007) Aufschwung für Deutschland. Plädoyer international renommierter Ökonomen für eine bessere Wirtschaftspolitik. Bonn: Dietz Also published in English: ‘Reforms, Macroeconomic Policy and Economic Performance in Germany’ (with David Soskice) in Schettkat, R., Langkau, J. (Eds.) (2008) Economic Policy Proposals for Germany and Europe. London and New York: Routledge.
• ‘Barter and non-monetary transactions in transition countries: evidence from a cross-country survey’ (with Steven Fries, Mark Schaffer and Paul Seabright) in P. Seabright (ed.) (2000) The Vanishing Rouble. Cambridge: CUP, 236-256.
• ‘The empirical analysis of corporate governance in transition’ in F. Boenker, E. Rosenbaum, H.J. Wagener (ed.) (2000) Privatisation, Corporate Governance and the Emergence of Markets MacMillan: Basingstoke.
• ‘West Germany’ in Bernard Foley (ed) (1998). European Economies since the Second World War MacMillan: Basingstoke. 25-47.
• ‘West German growth and institutions, 1945-1990’, in N. Crafts and G. Toniolo (eds) Post-war European Growth Cambridge: CUP (1996), 455-497.
• ‘Privatization and deindustrialization in East Germany’ in Saul Estrin (ed) Privatization in Central and Eastern Europe London: Longman, 1994. 127-153
• ‘The financial system in the transition: the special case of East Germany’ in H. Tomann et al. Bedingungen ökonomischer Entwicklung in Zentralosteuropa Band 2, Marburg: Metropolis, 1994. 223-250. (with P. Richthofen)
• ‘Enterprise restructuring: two case studies in East German privatization’ in J. Heath (ed) Revitalizing Socialist Enterprise: A Race against Time Routledge, 1993 (with R. Bischof and G. von Bismarck).
• ‘Economic reconstruction in Western Germany, 1945-55: the displacement of ‘vegetative control’’ in Ian D. Turner (ed) (1989), Reconstruction in Post-War Germany, Oxford & New York: Berg. 37-65.
• ‘Medium-run Keynesianism: hysteresis and capital scrapping’, in Paul Davidson and Jan A. Kregel (eds) (1989), Macroeconomic Problems and Policies of Income Distribution, Edward Elgar. (with David Soskice)

Comments and Book Review Articles in Journals

• Wendy Carlin (2008). ‘Discussion’ of Robert Inklaar, Marcel P. Timmer, Bart van Ark ‘Market services productivity across Europe and the US’ Economic Policy 23 (53) , 139–194 (171-175).
• Wendy Carlin (2007). ‘Discussion’ of Francesco Daveri, Mika Maliranta ‘Age, seniority and labour costs: lessons from the Finnish IT revolution’ Economic Policy 22 (49) , 117–175 (164-168)
• Wendy Carlin (2007). ‘Discussion’ of Doris Weichselbaumer, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer ‘The effects of competition and equal treatment laws on gender wage differentials’
• Economic Policy 22 (50) , 235–287 (278-281)
• Wendy Carlin (2007). Book Review Feature. The Future of Europe: Reform or Decline by A. Alesina & F. Giavazzi (2006). Cambridge Mass. And London: MIT Press. Economic Journal, Volume 117, Issue 524, Page F634-F641, Nov 2007, doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2007.02100_1.x