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Overview

Randall Wright is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States and specializes in economics, econometrics, and finance with a primary focus on economics and econometrics. Their scholarly work spans several subfields, including general economics, finance, marketing, and management science.

The main topics addressed in their research include:

  • Economic theories and models
  • Economic theory and policy
  • Monetary policy and economic impact
  • Banking stability, regulation, efficiency
  • Consumer market behavior and pricing
  • Economic theory and institutions
  • Housing market and economics

Among their recent publications are:

  • "Directed Search and Competitive Search Equilibrium: A Guided Tour" (2021) published in the Journal of Economic Literature
  • "Frictional capital reallocation with ex post heterogeneity" (2020) published in Review of Economic Dynamics
  • "THE EFFECTS OF NEWS WHEN LIQUIDITY MATTERS" (2020) published in International Economic Review
  • "Playing with money" (2020) published in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • "Diamond-Dybvig and beyond: On the instability of banking" (2023) published in European Economic Review

Wright has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Yu Zhu, Chao Gu, Peter Norman, Bruno Sultanum, and Janet Hua Jiang. This network reflects a broad engagement across multiple research efforts within their fields.

Their work is prominently represented in several publication venues notable for economic research:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Review of Economic Dynamics
  • International Economic Review
  • Journal of Political Economy
  • Journal of Economic Literature

Overall, Randall Wright's research contributes extensively to the understanding and development of economic theory, monetary policy influence, and banking system stability, grounded in an interdisciplinary approach that connects economics with finance and marketing considerations.

Best Publications

  • On Money as a Medium of Exchange

    Nobuhiro Kiyotaki;Randall Wright

  • A Unified Framework for Monetary Theory and Policy Analysis

    Ricardo Lagos;Randall Wright;Randall Wright

  • Search-Theoretic Models of the Labor Market: A Survey

    Richard Rogerson;Robert Shimer;Randall Wright

  • A search-theoretic approach to monetary economics

    Nobuhiro Kiyotaki;Randall Wright

  • Homework in Macroeconomics: Household Production and Aggregate Fluctuations

    Jess Benhabib;Richard Rogerson;Richard Rogerson;Richard Rogerson;Randall Wright;Randall Wright

  • Search, Bargaining, Money, and Prices

    Alberto Trejos;Randall Wright

  • Pricing and Matching with Frictions

    Kenneth Burdett;Shouyong Shi;Randall Wright

  • Money in Search Equilibrium, in Competitive Equilibrium, and in Competitive Search Equilibrium

    Guillaume Rocheteau;Randall Wright

  • A contribution to the pure theory of money

    Nobuhiro Kiyotaki;Nobuhiro Kiyotaki;Randall Wright;Randall Wright

  • An equilibrium model of the business cycle with household production and fiscal policy

    Ellen R Mcgrattan;Richard Rogerson;Randall Wright

  • Adverse Selection in Competitive Search Equilibrium

    Veronica Guerrieri;Robert Shimer;Randall Wright

  • Barter and monetary exchange under private information

    Stephen Williamson;Randall Wright

  • New Monetarist Economics: Models

    Stephen D. Williamson;Randall Wright

  • Search-Theoretic Models of the Labor Market: A Survey

    Richard Rogerson;Richard Rogerson;Richard Rogerson;Randall Wright;Randall Wright

  • Crime, Inequality, and Unemployment

    Kenneth Burdett;Ricardo Lagos;Randall Wright

  • The Labor Market in Real Business Cycle Theory

    Gary D. Hansen;Randall Wright

  • Inflation and Unemployment in the Long Run

    Aleksander Berentsen;Guido Menzio;Randall D. Wright

  • Barter and monetary exchange under private information

    Randall Wright;Steve Williamson

  • 6. Household Production in Real Business Cycle Theory

    Jeremy Greenwood;Richard Rogerson;Randall Wright

  • COMPETITIVE PRICING AND EFFICIENCY IN SEARCH EQUILIBRIUM

    Dale T. Mortensen;Randall Wright

  • Liquidity: A New Monetarist Perspective

    Ricardo Lagos;Guillaume Rocheteau;Randall Wright

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Rogerson
Richard Rogerson Princeton University
Guillaume Rocheteau
Guillaume Rocheteau University of California, Irvine
Nobuhiro Kiyotaki
Nobuhiro Kiyotaki Princeton University
S. Boragan Aruoba
S. Boragan Aruoba University of Maryland, College Park
Robert Shimer
Robert Shimer University of Chicago
Jess Benhabib
Jess Benhabib New York University
Stephen D. Williamson
Stephen D. Williamson University of Western Ontario
Karl Shell
Karl Shell Cornell University
Andrew Postlewaite
Andrew Postlewaite University of Pennsylvania
Dale T. Mortensen
Dale T. Mortensen Northwestern University

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