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Stephen D. Williamson

Stephen D. Williamson

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
33
Citations
7721
World Ranking
3196
National Ranking
84

Overview

Stephen D. Williamson is affiliated with the University of Western Ontario in Canada and specializes in the fields of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance. Their research spans a range of subfields including General Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, with additional focus on Information Systems and Political Science and International Relations.

Their recent publications cover topics related to economic theories and models, banking stability and regulation, economic theory and policy, and monetary policy and its economic impact. Notable topics of study also include complex systems and time series analysis, blockchain technology applications and security, as well as Canadian policy and governance.

Stephen D. Williamson has published in several distinguished venues, such as:

  • Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
  • Journal of Political Economy
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Economic Theory
  • Canadian Public Policy

Recent papers include:

  • "Central bank digital currency and flight to safety," 2021, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
  • "Central Bank Digital Currency: Welfare and Policy Implications," 2022, Journal of Political Economy
  • "Weighing the Options: Why the Bank of Canada Should Renew Inflation Targeting," 2021, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "The Role of Central Banks," 2020, Canadian Public Policy
  • "Deposit insurance, bank regulation, and narrow banking," 2024, Journal of Economic Theory

Their work frequently addresses banking stability, regulation, and efficiency as well as monetary policy and economic impact. The emphasis on central bank digital currency appears in multiple papers, reflecting a consistent engagement with contemporary monetary policy challenges.

Stephen D. Williamson does not have listed frequent co-authors, suggesting either a broad range of collaborations or primarily independent research efforts. The range of publication venues indicates a multidisciplinary approach, connecting economics, policy, and finance areas.

Best Publications

  • Costly monitoring, financial intermediation, and equilibrium credit rationing

    Stephen D. Williamson;Stephen D. Williamson

  • Costly Monitoring, Loan Contracts, and Equilibrium Credit Rationing

    Stephen D. Williamson

  • Financial Intermediation, Business Failures, and Real Business Cycles

    Stephen D. Williamson

  • Barter and monetary exchange under private information

    Stephen Williamson;Randall Wright

  • Currency Elasticity and Banking Panics: Theory and Evidence

    Bruce Champ;Bruce D Smith;Stephen D Williamson

  • New Monetarist Economics: Models

    Stephen D. Williamson;Randall Wright

  • Liquidity, Monetary Policy, and the Financial Crisis: A New Monetarist Approach †

    Stephen D. Williamson

  • Barter and monetary exchange under private information

    Randall Wright;Steve Williamson

  • New Monetarist Economics: Models

    Stephen D. Williamson;Randall Wright

  • Unemployment insurance with moral hazard in a dynamic economy

    Cheng Wang;Stephen Williamson

  • Moral hazard, optimal unemployment insurance, and experience rating

    Cheng Wang;Stephen D. Williamson

  • Scarce collateral, the term premium, and quantitative easing

    Stephen D. Williamson

  • New Monetarist Economics: methods

    Stephen Williamson;Randall Wright

  • New Monetarist Economics: Methods

    Stephen D. Williamson;Randall Wright

  • Monetary policy and distribution

    Stephen D. Williamson;Stephen D. Williamson;Stephen D. Williamson

  • Money and Credit With Limited Commitment and Theft

    Daniel Sanches;Stephen D. Williamson;Stephen D. Williamson

  • Money and Dynamic Credit Arrangements with Private Information

    S.Rao Aiyagari;Stephen D. Williamson

  • Scarcity of Safe Assets, Inflation, and the Policy Trap

    David Andolfatto;Stephen D. Williamson

  • Central bank digital currency and flight to safety

    Stephen D. Williamson

  • Central Bank Digital Currency: Welfare and Policy Implications

    Stephen Williamson

  • Private Money

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  • SEARCH, LIMITED PARTICIPATION, AND MONETARY POLICY*

    Stephen D. Williamson

  • Liquidity, Banking, and Bank Failures

    Stephen D. Williamson

  • Debt Contracts and Financial Intermediation with Costly Screening

    Cheng Wang;Stephen Williamson

Frequent Co-Authors

Cheng Wang
Cheng Wang University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Randall Wright
Randall Wright University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jeremy Greenwood
Jeremy Greenwood University of Pennsylvania
Mark Gertler
Mark Gertler New York University

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