Selected recent publications

Refereed Journal Articles

The Production Impact of `Cash for Clunkers': Implications for Stabilization Policy’’ Economic Inquiry 51(1), January 2013 (with Adam Copeland). Working paper version.

‘‘Interpreting the Great Moderation: Changes in the Volatility of Economic Activity at the Macro and Micro Levels’’ (with Steven Davis), Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2008.

‘‘Tracking the New Economy: Using Growth Theory to Detect Changes in Trend Productivity’’ (with Robert Rich), Journal of Monetary Economics 54 (September 2007), pp. 1670-1701

Other Published Works

‘‘The Productivity Slowdown Reaffirmed,’’ Liberty Street Economics blog, Federal Reserve

Bank of New York (joint with Robert Rich).

‘‘Can We Determine the Optimal Size of Government?’’ Development Policy and Brie fing

Paper, 2011 (7), Cato Institute.

‘‘Productivity Swings and Housing Prices,’’ Current Issues in Economics and Finance 15 No. 3 (July 2009).

‘‘Tariffs and the Great Depression Revisited’’ (with Mario Crucini), in Great Depressions of the Twentieth Century, Tim Kehoe and Edward Prescott, editors, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, 2007.

‘‘Inventory Investment,’’ New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd ed., 2007