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Overview

Susanto Basu is affiliated with Boston College in the United States and conducts research primarily in the field of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance. Their work spans several subfields including Economics and Econometrics, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Finance, and Accounting.

Their recent research focuses on topics such as Monetary Policy and Economic Impact, Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth, Economic Growth and Productivity, Economic theories and models, Economic Theory and Policy, Global Financial Crisis and Policies, and Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis.

Susanto Basu has published multiple papers in various academic venues. Notable papers include:

  • Productivity and the Welfare of Nations (2022) published in the Journal of the European Economic Association
  • Discussion of "Understanding the international rise and fall of inflation since 2020" (2024) published in the Journal of Monetary Economics
  • Risky Business Cycles (2021) published in the SSRN Electronic Journal

Their frequent coauthors include Luigi Pascali, Fabio Schiantarelli, Luis Servén, Giacomo Candian, and Ryan Chahrour.

Susanto Basu's research has appeared predominantly in the following venues:

  • Journal of the European Economic Association
  • Journal of Monetary Economics
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

  • Returns to scale in U.S. production: estimates and implications

    Susanto Basu;John G. Fernald

  • Returns to Scale in U.S. Production: Estimates and Implications

    Susanto Basu;Susanto Basu;John G. Fernald

  • Uncertainty Shocks in a Model of Effective Demand

    Susanto Basu;Brent Bundick

  • Are technology improvements contractionary

    Susanto Basu;John G. Fernald;Miles S. Kimball

  • Appropriate Technology and Growth

    Susanto Basu;David N Weil

  • Intermediate Goods and Business Cycles: Implications for Productivity and Welfare

    Susanto Basu

  • Are Technology Improvements Contractionary?

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  • Are Technology Improvements Contractionary

    Susanto Basu;John G. Fernald;Miles S. Kimball

  • Procyclical Productivity: Increasing Returns or Cyclical Utilization?

    Susanto Basu

  • Business Cycles in International Historical Perspective

    Susanto Basu;Alan M. Taylor

  • Cyclical Productivity with Unobserved Input Variation

    Susanto Basu;Miles Kimball

  • The Case of the Missing Productivity Growth, or Does Information Technology Explain Why Productivity Accelerated in the United States but Not in the United Kingdom?

    Susanto Basu;John G. Fernald;Nicholas Oulton;Sylaja Srinivasan

  • Intermediate Goods and Business Cycles: Implications for Productivity and Welfare

    Susanto Basu;Susanto Basu

  • Some Evidence on the Importance of Sticky Wages

    Alessandro Barattieri;Susanto Basu;Peter Gottschalk

  • Productivity growth in the 1990s: technology, utilization, or adjustment?

    Susanto Basu;Susanto Basu;John G. Fernald;Matthew D. Shapiro;Matthew D. Shapiro

  • Are Apparent Productive Spillovers a Figment of Specification Error

    Susanto Basu;John G. Fernald

  • Aggregate productivity and aggregate technology

    Susanto Basu;Susanto Basu;John G. Fernald

  • Why Is Productivity Procyclical? Why Do We Care?

    Susanto Basu;John G. Fernald

  • Productivity Growth in the 1990s: Technology, Utilization, or Adjustment?

    Susanto Basu;Susanto Basu;John G. Fernald;Matthew D. Shapiro;Matthew D. Shapiro

  • Information and Communications Technology as a General-Purpose Technology: Evidence from US Industry Data

    Susanto Basu;John G. Fernald

  • Are Price-Cost Markups Rising in the United States? A Discussion of the Evidence

    Susanto Basu

  • Uncertainty Shocks in a Model of Effective Demand

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  • The Case of the Missing Productivity Growth: Or, Does Information technology explain why productivity accelerated in the United States but not the United Kingdom?

    Susanto Basu;John G. Fernald;Nicholas Oulton;Sylaja Srinivasan

  • Productivity Growth in the 1990s: Technology, Utilization, or Adjustment?

    John G. Fernald;Susanto Basu;Susanto Basu;Matthew D. Shapiro;Matthew D. Shapiro

  • A General-Equilibrium Asset-Pricing Approach to the Measurement of Nominal and Real Bank Output

    J. Christina Wang;Susanto Basu;John G. Fernald

  • The Case of the Missing Productivity Growth: Or, Does Information Technology Explain why Productivity Accelerated in the US but not the UK?

    Susanto Basu;John G. Fernald;Nicholas Oulton;Sylaja Srinivasan

  • Cyclical Productivity with Unobserved Input Variation

    Susanto Basu;Susanto Basu;Miles S Kimball

Frequent Co-Authors

Fabio Schiantarelli
Fabio Schiantarelli Boston College
Miles S. Kimball
Miles S. Kimball University of Colorado Boulder
Nicholas Oulton
Nicholas Oulton London School of Economics and Political Science
David N. Weil
David N. Weil Brown University
Matthew D. Shapiro
Matthew D. Shapiro University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Luis Servén
Luis Servén Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros
Peter Gottschalk
Peter Gottschalk Boston College
N. Gregory Mankiw
N. Gregory Mankiw Harvard University
Alan M. Taylor
Alan M. Taylor University of California, Davis

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