Benjamin M. Friedman

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According to Wikipedia, Benjamin Morton Friedman is an American political economist, who is the William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Brookings Institute's Panel on Economic Activity, and the editorial board of the Encyclopædia Britannica. He is a recipient of the John R. Commons Award, given by the economics honor society Omicron Delta Epsilon.

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Money, Income, Prices, and Interest Rates (1992) (732)
The moral consequences of economic growth (2006) (387)
Optimal expectations and the extreme information assumptions of ‘rational expectations’ macromodels (1979) (349)
Crowding Out or Crowding in? The Economic Consequences of Financing Government Deficits (1978) (281)
The Future of Monetary Policy: The Central Bank as an Army with Only a Signal Corps (1999) (264)
Economic Activity and the Short-term Credit Markets: An Analysis of Prices and Quantities (1993) (226)
Handbook of Monetary Economics (1990) (212)
Targets, instruments, and indicators of monetary policy (1976) (202)
A price target for U.S. monetary policy? Lessons from the experience with money growth targets (1996) (197)
Lessons from the 1979-1982 Monetary Policy Experiment (1984) (192)
Corporate Capital Structures in the United States (1986) (179)
Targets and Instruments of Monetary Policy (1988) (166)
Economic Implications of Extraordinary Movements in Stock Prices (1989) (155)
Lessons on Monetary Policy from the 1980&Apos;S (1988) (133)
Another Look at the Evidence on Money-Income Causality (1991) (131)
Indicator Properties of the PaperBill Spread: Lessons from Recent Experience (1998) (124)
Annuity Prices and Saving Behavior in the United States (1985) (120)
Financial Flow Variables and the Short-Run Determination of Long-Term Interest Rates (1977) (115)
The Inefficiency of Short-Run Monetary Targets for Monetary Policy (1977) (104)
Decoupling at the Margin: The Threat to Monetary Policy from the Electronic Revolution in Banking (2000) (103)
Implementation of Monetary Policy: How Do Central Banks Set Interest Rates? (2010) (102)
Pension Funding, Pension Asset Allocation, and Corporate Finance: Evidence from Individual Company Data (1982) (89)
Why the Federal Reserve Should Not Adopt Inflation Targeting (2004) (89)
Interest Rate Expectations Versus Forward Rates: Evidence from an Expectations Survey (1978) (78)
Economic Implications of Changing Share Ownership (1995) (78)
Day of Reckoning: The Consequences of American Economic Policy (1990) (68)
Money, Credit and Interest Rates in the Business Cycle (1984) (55)
Debt and Economic Activity in the United States (1981) (50)
Money, Income and Prices after the 1980s (1989) (49)
Monetary Policy Without Quantity Variables (1988) (49)
Even the St. Louis Model Now Believes in Fiscal Policy: A Note (1977) (48)
The Behavior of U.S. Short-Term Interest Rates Since October 1979 (1984) (47)
Substitution and Expectation Effects on Long-Term Borrowing Behavior and Long-Term Interest Rates (1979) (45)
The Lm Curve: A Not-so-Fond Farewell (2003) (43)
Price Inflation, Portfolio Choice, and Nominal Interest Rates (1978) (43)
Deficits and Debt in the Short and Long Run (2005) (42)
Postwar Changes in the American Financial Markets (1980) (42)
Has the Financial Crisis Permanently Changed the Practice of Monetary Policy? Has it Changed the Theory of Monetary Policy? (2014) (42)
The Changing Roles of Debt and Equity in Financing U.S. Capital Formation (1982) (41)
Does Monetary Policy Affect Real Economic Activity?: Why Do We Still Ask this Question? (1995) (40)
The Rise and Fall of Money Growth Targets as Guidelines for U.S. Monetary Policy (1996) (40)
The Future of Monetary Policy (2002) (36)
Economics: A Moral Inquiry with Religious Origins (2011) (35)
The Substitutability of Debt and Equity Securities (1983) (35)
Chapter 22 Targets and instruments of monetary policy (1990) (34)
Increasing Indebtedness and Financial Stability in the United States (1986) (33)
The Role of Interest Rates in Federal Reserve Policymaking (2000) (32)
Unemployment: Okun's Law, Labor Force, and Productivity (1974) (31)
The Greenspan Era: Discretion, Rather than Rules (2006) (31)
Indicator Properties of the Paper-Bill Spread: Lessons from Recent Experiences (1994) (31)
The Simple Analytics of Monetary Policy: A Post-Crisis Approach (2013) (31)
Optimal Economic Stabilization Policy: An Extended Framework (1972) (29)
Federal Reserve Policy, Interest Rate Volatility, and the U.S. Capital Raising Mechanism (1982) (29)
Financial Crises: Recent Experience in U.S. and International Markets (1982) (29)
Who Puts the Inflation Premium into Nominal Interests Rates? (1978) (28)
Investors' Portfolio Behavior Under Alternative Models of Long-Term Interest Rate Expectations: Unitary, Rational, or Autoregressive (1979) (28)
Debt Management Policy, Interest Rates, and Economic Activity (1981) (28)
Time-Varying Risk Perceptions and the Pricing of Risky Assets (1988) (25)
Monetary Policy with a Credit Aggregate Target (1982) (25)
Economic Stabilization Policy: Methods in Optimization (1975) (24)
A Note on the Derivation of Linear Homogeneous Asset Demand Functions (1979) (24)
Economic Stabilization Policy: Methods in Optimization (1975) (24)
Reconstructing Economics in Light of the 2007–? Financial Crisis (2010) (23)
Changing Effects of Monetary Policy on Real Economic Activity (1990) (23)
The Effect of Shifting Wealth Ownership on the Term Structure of Interest Rates: The Case of Pensions (1980) (23)
The Determination of Long-Term Interest Rates: Implications for Fiscal and Monetary Policies (1980) (23)
Empirical Issues in Monetary Policy (1977) (22)
Interest Rate Uncertainty and the Value of Bond Call Protection (1978) (22)
Why Have Short-Term Interest Rates Been So High? (1983) (21)
Why a Dual Mandate is Right for Monetary Policy (2008) (21)
The Ethical Economist: Growth May Be Everything, but It's Not the Only Thing (2005) (20)
Learning from the Reagan Deficits (1992) (20)
Aspects of Investor Behavior Under Risk (1985) (20)
Japan Now and the United States Then: Lessons from the Parallels (2000) (18)
Models of long-term interest rate determination* (1980) (17)
Conducting monetary policy by controlling currency plus noise: A comment (1988) (17)
Crowding Out or Crowding in? Evidence on Debt-Equity Substitutability (1985) (17)
METHODS IN OPTIMIZATION FOR ECONOMIC STABILIZATION POLICY (1972) (17)
Implications of Government Deficits for Interest Rates, Equity Returns and Corporate Financing (1984) (16)
The Relative Stability of Money and Credit "Velocities" in the United States: Evidence and Some Speculations (1981) (16)
What's The Use of Economics? (2012) (15)
Intermediate Targets versus Information Variables as Operating Guides for Monetary Policy (1994) (14)
Views on the Likelihood of Financial Crisis (1990) (14)
Monetary Policy, Fiscal Policy, and the Efficiency of Our Financial System: Lessons from the Financial Crisis (2012) (14)
The Value of Intermediate Targets in Implementing Monetary Policy (1984) (14)
Recent Perspectives in and on Macroeconomics (1983) (13)
The Role of Judgment and Discretion in the Conduct of Monetary Policy: Consequences of Changing Financial Markets (1993) (13)
Using a credit aggregate target to implement monetary policy in the financial environment of the future (1982) (13)
What Objectives for Monetary Policy (2008) (12)
Is our financial system serving us well? (2010) (12)
Implications of the Government Deficit for U.S. Capital Formation (1983) (12)
Crowding Out or Crowding In? (2019) (11)
Implications of increasing corporate indebtedness for monetary policy (1990) (11)
Financing Corporate Capital Formation (1986) (11)
Time to Re-Examine the Monetary Targets Framework (1982) (11)
Corporate Capital Structure in the United States: An Introduction and Overview (1985) (11)
Implications of Corporate Indebtedness for Monetary Policy (1990) (10)
Money, income, prices and interest rates after the 1980s (1990) (10)
Debt Restructuring (2000) (10)
Stability and Rationality in Models of Hyperinflation (1978) (10)
Portfolio Choice and the Debt-to-Income Relationship (1985) (9)
Handbook of Monetary Economics, vols. 1, 2 (1990) (9)
Money, Credit and Nonfinancial Economic Activity: An Empirical Study of Five Countries (1982) (9)
Regulation Q and the Commercial Loan Market in the 1960s (1975) (9)
Public Pension Funding and U.S. Capital Formation: A Medium-Run View (1976) (9)
Implications of the U.S. Net Capital Inflow (1986) (9)
Effects of Shifting Saving Patterns on Interest Rates and Economic Activity (1980) (8)
Credit rationing: a review (1972) (8)
What Have We Learned from the Reagan Deficits and Their Disappearance? (2000) (8)
Work and consumption in an era of unbalanced technological advance (2015) (8)
The Relative Stability of Money and Credit (1981) (8)
Structural Models of Interest Rate Determination and Portfolio Behavior in the Corporate and Government Bond Markets (1977) (8)
The Relative Stability of Money and Credit (1981) (8)
Lessons on Monetary Policy from the 1980s (2020) (8)
What We Still Don’t Know about Monetary and Fiscal Policy (2008) (7)
The Changing Role of Debt and Equity in Financing U. S. Capital Formation (1983) (7)
THE EFFECT OF LARGE GOVERNMENT DEFICITS ON INTEREST RATES AND EQUITY RETURNS (1985) (7)
How Easy Should Debt Restructuring Be (2000) (7)
Financing Capital Formation in the 1980s: Issues for Public Policy (1981) (7)
Capital, Credit and Money Markets (1989) (6)
Bank behavior in the Brunner-Meltzer model (1977) (6)
Public Disclosure and Domestic Monetary Policy (1978) (6)
Economic Well-Being in a Historical Context (2008) (6)
Monetary policy for emerging market economies: beyond inflation targeting (2008) (6)
TACTICS AND STRATEGY IN MONETARY POLICY (1971) (6)
A Century of Growth and Improvement (2016) (6)
How Important is Disaggregation in Structural Models of Interest Rate Determination? (1978) (6)
U.S. Fiscal Policy in the 1980s: Consequences of Large Budget Deficits at Full Employment (1990) (5)
Commentary on Is inflation targeting best-practice monetary policy? (2004) (5)
Financing the Next Five Years of Fixed Investment (1975) (5)
Handbook of Monetary Economics. Volumes I and II. (1991) (5)
Learning From The Crisis: What Can Central Banks Do? (2010) (5)
The information value of observing monetary policy deliberations (1979) (4)
Fiscal and Monetary Policies for Growth (1998) (4)
The Minsky cycle in action: but why? (1993) (4)
Is the Monetary Base Related to Income in a Robust Way (1990) (4)
Moral Consequences of Economic Growth: The John R. Commons Lecture, 2006 (2006) (4)
New challenges to the role of profit (1978) (4)
New Directions in the Relationship Between Public and Private Debt (1987) (4)
Capitalism, economic growth & democracy (2007) (3)
Bank Capital: The Deposit-Protection Incentive (1975) (3)
Identifying Identical Distributed Lag Structures by the Use of Prior Sumconstraints (1977) (3)
Money, Credit, and Federal Reserve Policy: Reply to Porter and Offenbacher (1983) (3)
Saving, Investment, and Government Deficits in the 1980s (1985) (3)
What Have We Learned from the Disappearance of the Deficits? (2000) (3)
Widening Inequality Combined with Modest Growth (2009) (3)
How Does it Matter? (1991) (3)
New Directions in the Relation Between Public and Private Debt (1987) (3)
Managing the U.S. Government Deficit in the 1980s (1983) (2)
More on bank behavior: Reply to Van Loo (1981) (2)
Is Inflation Targeting Best-Practice Monetary Policy?/Commentary (2004) (2)
Financial Intermediation in the United States (1984) (2)
The Behavior of U.S. Short-Term Interest Rates Since 1979-10 (1986) (2)
Physical Capital Formation and Financial Capital Scarcity (1976) (2)
Heterogeneous-Expectations Model of the Value of Bonds Bearing Call Options (1977) (2)
Financial Markets and Monetary Economics (1990) (2)
Threats to Future Effectiveness of Monetary Policy (2002) (2)
Keynesian Economics and Harvard: Evolution Prevails (1988) (2)
Rules versus discretion at the Federal Reserve System: On to the second century (2012) (1)
Discussion of Jon Faust and Dale W. Henderson, "Is Inflation Targeting Best-Practice Monetary Policy?" 1 (2003) (1)
Monetary Policy Management (1983) (1)
Handbook of monetary economics: In 2 vol. (1990) (1)
Toward a New Understanding of Monetary Policy (2013) (1)
The Treasury Threatens Corporate Balance Sheets (1982) (1)
Monetary and Regulatory Systems for Developing Financial System (1985) (1)
The Role for Depth in a Liberal Education (2009) (1)
Financial Fragility and the Policy Dilemma (1990) (1)
The Determination of Long-Term Interest Rates: Why Were Bond Yields So High in 1974? (1975) (1)
Principles of Economics (1995) (1)
Financing American Investment in New Technology (1986) (1)
Conducting U.S. Monetary Policy: What Changes Do We Need? (1985) (1)
Monetary Policy since the 2007–2009 Financial Crisis (2015) (1)
Interest Rate Implications for Fiscal and Monetary Policies: A Postscript on the Government Budget Constraint (1982) (1)
The Determination of Long-Term Interest Rates: Implications for Monetary and Fiscal Policies (1979) (1)
Corporate Capital Structures in the United States: An Introduction and Overview (1985) (1)
The Corporate Debt Problem (1988) (1)
The Influence of Religious Thinking on the Smithian Revolution (2011) (1)
THE CHANGING EFFECT OF INFLATION ON FINANCIAL RETURNS (1984) (1)
Financing Corporate Capital Formation: An Introduction and Overview (1986) (0)
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Financial Roadblocks on the Route to Economic Prosperity (1992) (0)
Comment on "Sustaining Entrepreneurial Capitalism" (by William J. Baumol, Robert E. Litan and Carl J. Schramm) (2007) (0)
Federal Reserve Independence and the Coordination of National Macroeconomic Policies (1978) (0)
Time-Varying Risk and the Pricing of Risky Assets (1992) (0)
Financial Stability and Responsive Monetary Policy: Resolving a Dynamic Incompatibility. (2015) (0)
Capitalism, Economic Growth & Democracy The Harvard community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters (2007) (0)
Learning From The Crisis: A Talk in Honor of Lucas Papademos (2012) (0)
How does it matter? Commentary: whatever happened to contracyclical policy? (1992) (0)
Economic Growth and the Moral Society (2010) (0)
Policy Steps for Japan in Its Current Economic and Financial Crisis (1999) (0)
Number 1920 Legal Origins (2001) (0)
Three Cheers for the Progressive State (2008) (0)
Economic Origins and Aims: A Role for Religious Thinking? (2010) (0)
Widening Inequality Means a Democracy at Risk (2008) (0)
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, Annual Index, 2004 (2004) (0)
Book Review:Money, Employment and Inflation Robert J. Barro, Herschel I. Grossman (1977) (0)
This PDF is a selection from an out-of-print volume from the National Bureau of Economic Research Volume Title: Annals of Economic and Social Measurement, Volume 1, number 3 Volume Author/Editor: NBER Volume Publisher: NBER (1972) (0)
Bureau of Economic Research. (1984) (0)
Monetary Policy (2000) (0)
Aspects of Investment Behavior under Risk (1987) (0)
The decline of commercial banking: implications for monetary policy (1994) (0)
Gore vs. Bush: The Difference (2000) (0)
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES SLACK AND CYCLICALLY SENSITIVE INFLATION (2019) (0)
Comment on "Opting Out of the Great Inflation: German Monetary Policy after the Break Down of Bretton Woods" (2012) (0)
Monetary Policy for the 1976 Recovery (1976) (0)
[Does Monetary Policy Matter? A New Test in the Spirit of Friedman and Schwartz]: Comment (1989) (0)
Economics and Its Discontents (2015) (0)
NEER's research program in Financial Markets and Monetary Economics and project on the Changing Roles of Debt and Equity Finances in the United States, which is being financed by a grant from the American Council of Life Insurance. (1981) (0)
Economic Origins and Aims: Is There a Role for Religious Thinking? (2010) (0)
Is There a Capital Shortage: Discussion (1976) (0)
Work and consumption in an era of unbalanced technological advance (2015) (0)
The research reported here is part of the NBER'S research program in Financial Markets and Monetary Economics and project in Government Budgets. Any opinions expressed are those of the author and not those of the National Bureau of Economic Research. (1983) (0)
A Credit Market Perspective on the U.S. Government Deficit Problem (1984) (0)
Inroduction, An Overview of the NBER's Research Project on The Changing Roles Debt and Equity in Financing U.S. Capital Formation (1982) (0)
The Role of Private Saving and Government Dissaving in Financing American Economic Development in the 1980s (1993) (0)
Editors' Summary (2001) (0)
Why Japan should not Adopt Inflation Targeting (2002) (0)
Front matter, Financing Corporate Capital Formation (1986) (0)
Friedman Capitalism , economic growth & democracy (2007) (0)
Introduction (2010) (0)
¿"Crowding out o crowding in"?. Consecuencias económicas de la financiación de los déficits públicos (1982) (0)
Critiquing robert J. gordon's The Rise and Fall oF ameRican GRowTh (2016) (0)
The Religious Roots of Modern Economics: Historical Origins and Contemporary Consequences (2011) (0)
The Financing Must Come – But From Where? (1980) (0)

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