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Willem H. Buiter is an independent scientist and consultant based in the United States, specializing in Economics, Econometrics, and Finance. Their research covers a diverse range of topics within these fields, including monetary policy, banking stability, global financial policies, fiscal policies, and economic theory.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Monetary Policy and Economic Impact
  • Banking Stability, Regulation, Efficiency
  • Global Financial Crisis and Policies
  • Fiscal Policies and Political Economy
  • Economic Theory and Policy
  • Hungarian Social, Economic and Educational Studies

Their extensive publication record spans a variety of peer-reviewed journals and venues. Frequent venues for publication include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Economic Affairs
  • Economic Record
  • Cambridge University Press eBooks
  • Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks

Buiter has authored several research papers recently, notably:

  • Stabilising Financial Markets: Lending and Market Making as a Last Resort, 2023, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The widespread failure of central banks to control inflation, 2023, Economic Affairs
  • The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level, by John H.Cochrane (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2023), 584 pp., 2023, Economic Record

Earlier works include contributions to the topic of macroprudential policy, such as The Global Dimensions of Macroprudential Policy (2020, SSRN Electronic Journal).

In the academic community, Buiter collaborates with multiple researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Kathryn M.E. Dominguez
  • Antonio Sánchez Serrano
  • Richard Portes
  • Thorsten Beck
  • Daniel Gros

Buiter has also published a book titled Central Banks as Fiscal Players (2020) with Cambridge University Press.

Buiter's work spans several subfields such as:

  • General Economics, Econometrics and Finance
  • Finance
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Geography, Planning and Development

Best Publications

  • A guide to public sector debt and deficits

    Willem H. Buiter

  • Excessive deficits: sense and nonsense in the Treaty of Maastricht.

    Willem H. Buiter;Giancarlo Corsetti;Nouriel Roubini

  • Time Preference and International Lending and Borrowing in an Overlapping-Generations Model

    Willem H. Buiter

  • Alice in Euroland

    Willem H. Buiter

  • THE FISCAL THEORY OF THE PRICE LEVEL: A CRITIQUE*

    Willem H. Buiter

  • Death, Birth, Productivity Growth and Debt Neutrality

    Willem H. Buiter

  • ‘Crowding out’ and the effectiveness of fiscal policy

    Willem H. Buiter

  • The unfortunate uselessness of most ’state of the art’ academic monetary economics

    Willem Buiter

  • Saddlepoint Problems in Contifuous Time Rational Expectations Models: A General Method and Some Macroeconomic Ehamples

    Willem H. Buiter

  • Interpreting the Erm Crisis: Country-Specific and Systemic Issues

    Willem H. Buiter;Giancarlo M. Corsetti;Giancarlo M. Corsetti;Giancarlo M. Corsetti;Paolo A. Pesenti;Paolo A. Pesenti

  • Housing wealth isn't wealth

    Willem H. Buiter

  • Financial Markets and European Monetary Cooperation: The Lessons of the 1992-93 Exchange Rate Mechanism Crisis

    Willem H. Buiter;Giancarlo Corsetti;Paolo A. Pesenti

  • Overcoming the zero bound on nominal interest rates with negative interest on currency: gesell's solution*

    Willem H. Buiter;Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou

  • The Macroeconomics of DR Pangloss A Critical Survey of the New Classical Macroeconomics

    Willem H. Buiter

  • Long Run Effects of Fiscal and Monetary Policy on Aggregate Demand

    James Tobin;Willem H. Buiter

  • Real exchange rate overshooting and the output cost of bringing down inflation

    Willem Hendrik Buiter;Marcus Miller

  • Debt, Deficits and Inflation: An Application to the Public Finances of India

    Willem H Buiter;Urijit R. Patel

  • International Economic Policy Coordination

    Willem H. Buiter;Richard C. Marston

  • Patching up the Pact: some Suggestions for Enhancing Fiscal Sustainability and Macroeconomic Stability in an Enlarged European Union

    Willem H. Buiter;Clemens Grafe

  • Liquidity Traps: How to Avoid Them and How to Escape Them

    Willem H. Buiter;Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou

  • STAGGERED WAGE SETTING WITH REAL WAGE RELATIVITIES: VARIATIONS ON A THEME OF TAYLOR*

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Frequent Co-Authors

Marcus Miller
Marcus Miller University of Warwick
Giancarlo Corsetti
Giancarlo Corsetti European University Institute
Paolo A. Pesenti
Paolo A. Pesenti Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Jonathan Eaton
Jonathan Eaton Pennsylvania State University
Hélène Rey
Hélène Rey London Business School
William H. Branson
William H. Branson Princeton University
Daniel Gros
Daniel Gros Bocconi University
Sylvester C. W. Eijffinger
Sylvester C. W. Eijffinger Tilburg University
Nicholas Stern
Nicholas Stern London School of Economics and Political Science
Richard Portes
Richard Portes London Business School

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