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Gauti B. Eggertsson

Gauti B. Eggertsson

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Economics and Finance

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39
Citations
15344
World Ranking
2348
National Ranking
1331

Overview

Gauti B. Eggertsson is affiliated with Brown University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of economics, econometrics, and finance. Their research focuses primarily on monetary policy and economic impact, economic theory and policy, and related economic models and applications.

Eggertsson has published 42 works in the main field of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, including contributions to the subfields of General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Economics and Econometrics, Finance, and Management Science and Operations Research.

Their work covers a variety of topics within economics, including:

  • Monetary Policy and Economic Impact
  • Economic Theory and Policy
  • Economic theories and models
  • Stochastic processes and financial applications
  • Banking stability, regulation, efficiency
  • Housing Market and Economics
  • Credit Risk and Financial Regulations

Eggertsson has authored several recent papers, among them:

  • "Kaldor and Piketty's facts: The rise of monopoly power in the United States" (2021), published in the Journal of Monetary Economics
  • "Negative Nominal Interest Rates and the Bank Lending Channel" (2023), published in The Review of Economic Studies
  • "Time Consistency and Duration of Government Debt: A Model of Quantitative Easing" (2022), published in The Review of Economic Studies
  • "Dynamic Debt Deleveraging and Optimal Monetary Policy" (2020), published in American Economic Journal Macroeconomics
  • "A toolkit for solving models with a lower bound on interest rates of stochastic duration" (2021), published in Review of Economic Dynamics

Frequent co-authors working with Eggertsson include Ella Getz Wold, Ragnar Juelsrud, Lawrence H. Summers, Pierpaolo Benigno, and Sergey Egiev.

The scholar has frequently published in venues such as SSRN Electronic Journal, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), The Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Monetary Economics, and AEA Papers and Proceedings.

Best Publications

  • Zero Bound on Interest Rates and Optimal Monetary Policy

    Gauti B. Eggertsson;Woodford Michael

  • The Zero Bound on Interest Rates and Optimal Monetary Policy

    Gauti B. Eggertsson;Michael Woodford

  • Debt, Deleveraging, and the Liquidity Trap: A Fisher-Minsky-Koo Approach*

    Gauti B. Eggertsson;Paul Krugman

  • What Fiscal Policy Is Effective at Zero Interest Rates

    Gauti B. Eggertsson

  • A Model of Secular Stagnation

    Gauti B. Eggertsson;Neil R. Mehrotra

  • A Model of Secular Stagnation: Theory and Quantitative Evaluation

    Gauti B. Eggertsson;Neil R. Mehrotra;Jacob A. Robbins

  • Great Expectations and the End of the Depression

    Gauti B. Eggertsson

  • Kaldor and Piketty’s facts: The rise of monopoly power in the United States

    Gauti B. Eggertsson;Jacob A. Robbins;Ella Getz Wold

  • The great escape? A quantitative evaluation of the Fed's liquidity facilities

    Marco Del Negro;Gauti Eggertsson;Andrea Ferrero;Nobuhiro Kiyotaki

  • The Deflation Bias and Committing to Being Irresponsible

    Gauti B. Eggertsson

  • Can Structural Reforms Help Europe

    Gauti Eggertsson;Andrea Ferrero;Andrea Rao

  • The Great Escape? A Quantitative Evaluation of the Fed’s Liquidity Facilities

    Marco Del Negro;Gauti B. Eggertsson;Andrea Ferrero;Nobuhiro Kiyotaki

  • Optimal Monetary and Fiscal Policy in a Liquidity Trap

    Gauti Eggertsson;Michael Woodford

  • Optimal Monetary Policy in a Liquidity Trap

    Gauti B. Eggertsson;Michael Woodford

  • Negative Nominal Interest Rates and the Bank Lending Channel

    Gauti B. Eggertsson;Ragnar E. Juelsrud;Lawrence H. Summers;Ella Getz Wold

  • Time Consistency and the Duration of Government Debt: A Signalling Theory of Quantitative Easing

    Saroj Bhattarai;Gauti B Eggertsson;Bulat Gafarov

  • The paradox of toil

    Gauti Eggertsson

  • Policy Options in a Liquidity Trap

    Gauti B. Eggertsson;Michael Woodford

  • Was the New Deal Contractionary

    Gauti B. Eggertsson

  • A Contagious Malady? Open Economy Dimensions of Secular Stagnation

    Gauti B. Eggertsson;Neil R. Mehrotra;Sanjay R. Singh;Lawrence H. Summers

  • Secular Stagnation in the Open Economy

    Gauti B Eggertsson;Neil R Mehrotra;Lawrence H Summers

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Woodford
Michael Woodford Columbia University
Marco Del Negro
Marco Del Negro Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Marc P. Giannoni
Marc P. Giannoni Barclays (United Kingdom)
Nobuhiro Kiyotaki
Nobuhiro Kiyotaki Princeton University
Pierpaolo Benigno
Pierpaolo Benigno University of Bern
Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman Princeton University
Lawrence H. Summers
Lawrence H. Summers Harvard University
Eric T. Swanson
Eric T. Swanson University of California, Irvine
Giorgio E. Primiceri
Giorgio E. Primiceri Northwestern University
Jonathan D. Ostry
Jonathan D. Ostry University of Toronto

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