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1208
National Ranking
725

Overview

David H. Romer is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research spans several fields within economics and related disciplines, with notable contributions in multiple subfields.

The main subfields of study in Romer's work include:

  • Economics and Econometrics
  • General Economics, Econometrics and Finance
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Accounting
  • General Health Professions

Romer's research topics cover a variety of key themes in economic analysis and policy:

  • Monetary Policy and Economic Impact
  • Market Dynamics and Volatility
  • Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
  • Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Agricultural Risk and Resilience
  • Economic Theories and Models

Their recent papers illustrate a focus on monetary policy, confidence intervals in analysis, and fiscal policy in response to economic conditions:

  • "In Praise of Confidence Intervals," 2020, AEA Papers and Proceedings
  • "Presidential Address: Does Monetary Policy Matter? The Narrative Approach after 35 Years," 2023, American Economic Review
  • "A Social Insurance Perspective on Pandemic Fiscal Policy: Implications for Unemployment Insurance and Hazard Pay," 2022, The Journal of Economic Perspectives
  • "Does Monetary Policy Matter? The Narrative Approach after 35 Years," 2023, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "In Praise of Confidence Intervals," 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent co-authorship has been recorded with Christina Romer, indicating collaboration in scholarly outputs.

The most frequent publication venues for Romer's work include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • AEA Papers and Proceedings
  • Brookings Papers on Economic Activity
  • American Economic Review
  • The Journal of Economic Perspectives

Best Publications

  • A Contribution to the Empirics of Economic Growth

    N. Gregory Mankiw;David Romer;David N. Weil

  • Does Trade Cause Growth

    Jeffrey A. Frankel;David H. Romer

  • Does Monetary Policy Matter? A New Test in the Spirit of Friedman and Schwartz

    Christina D. Romer;David H. Romer

  • The Macroeconomic Effects of Tax Changes: Estimates Based on a New Measure of Fiscal Shocks

    Christina D. Romer;David H. Romer

  • A New Measure of Monetary Shocks: Derivation and Implications

    Christina D. Romer;David H. Romer

  • "The New Keynesian Economics and the Output-Inflation Trade-off"

    Laurence M Ball;N. Gregory Mankiw;David H Romer

  • Openness and Inflation: Theory and Evidence

    David Romer

  • Real Rigidities and the Non-Neutrality of Money

    Laurence M. Ball;David Romer

  • Federal Reserve Information and the Behavior of Interest Rates

    Christina D. Romer;David H. Romer

  • Keynesian Macroeconomics without the LM Curve

    David Romer

  • Do Students Go to Class? Should They?

    David Romer

  • New Keynesian Economics - Vol. 1: Imperfect Competition and Sticky Prices

    N. Gregory Mankiw;David Romer

  • New Evidence on the Monetary Transmission Mechanism

    Christina D Romer;David H Romer

  • Reducing inflation : motivation and strategy

    Christina D Romer;David H Romer

  • Sticky Prices as Coordination Failure

    Laurence Ball;David Romer

  • New keynesian economics

    David Romer;N. Gregory Mankiw

  • Rational Asset Price Movements Without News

    David Romer

  • An Unbiased Reexamination of Stock Market Volatility

    N. Gregory Mankiw;David Romer;Matthew D. Shapiro

  • Monetary Policy and the Well-Being of the Poor

    Christina Romer;David Romer

  • RISK AVERSION WITH RANDOM INITIAL WEALTH

    Richard E Kihlstrom;David Romer;Steve Williams

Frequent Co-Authors

Christina D. Romer
Christina D. Romer University of California, Berkeley
Laurence Ball
Laurence Ball Johns Hopkins University
N. Gregory Mankiw
N. Gregory Mankiw Harvard University
Jeffrey A. Frankel
Jeffrey A. Frankel Harvard University
Matthew D. Shapiro
Matthew D. Shapiro University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
David N. Weil
David N. Weil Brown University
Robert C. Feenstra
Robert C. Feenstra University of California, Davis
Benjamin M. Jones
Benjamin M. Jones University of Alaska Fairbanks

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