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Greg Mankiw is the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University and a well-known macroeconomist of the New Keynesian school. He earned a B.A. in economics from Princeton University and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He studied law briefly at Harvard Law School before returning to become an assistant professor of economics at Harvard University.

Mankiw has done important study on menu costs, publishing a paper titled “Small Menu Costs and Large Business Cycles: A Macroeconomic Model of Monopoly”, which has served as the foundation for further work by economists such as Laurence Ball and David Romer. His most frequently cited paper, “A Contribution to the Empirics of Economic Growth” has been cited more than 15,000 times.

He has also written two of the most popular college economics textbooks: Macroeconomics and Principles of Economics, which are part of the core economics curriculum for many colleges in the country.

Mankiw has also provided consultation and counsel for government officials, serving as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President George W. Bush. In that role he sought to provide greater oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. He is well known as a blogger on all economics topics and his blog is popular among economics students and scholars alike.

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According to Wikipedia, Nicholas Gregory Mankiw is an American macroeconomist who is currently the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Mankiw is best known in academia for his work on New Keynesian economics.

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Published Papers

A Contribution to the Empirics of Economic Growth (1990) (14842)
Sticky Information Versus Sticky Prices: A Proposal to Replace the New Keynesian Phillips Curve (2001) (2451)
Consumption, Income, and Interest Rates: Reinterpreting the Time Series Evidence (1989) (1864)
The Consumption of Stockholders and Non-Stockholders (1990) (1259)
Free Entry and Social Inefficiency (1986) (1248)
Small Menu Costs and Large Business Cycles: A Macroeconomic Model of Monopoly (1985) (1163)
Disagreement about Inflation Expectations (2003) (1061)
The Baby Boom, the Baby Bust, and the Housing Market (1988) (1050)
The Growth of Nations (1995) (983)
Capital Mobility in Neoclassical Models of Growth (1992) (983)
Permanent Income, Current Income, and Consumption (1987) (883)
Are Output Fluctuations Transitory? (1986) (855)
Asymmetric Price Adjustment and Economic Fluctuations (1992) (719)
The New Keynesian Economics and the Output-Inflation Trade-Off (1989) (696)
Principles of Economics (649)
The Savers-Spenders Theory of Fiscal Policy (2000) (598)
The response of consumption to income: A cross-country investigation☆ (1991) (552)
Optimal Taxation in Theory and Practice (2009) (507)
The NAIRU in Theory and Practice (2002) (482)
Intertemporal Substitution in Macroeconomics (1982) (475)
The Equity Premium and the Concentration of Aggregate Shocks (1986) (407)
An Empirical Model of Labor Supply in a Life-Cycle Setting (2007) (405)
A Quick Refresher Course in Macroeconomics (1990) (354)
The Allocation of Credit and Financial Collapse (1986) (354)
The Politics and Economics of Offshore Outsourcing (2006) (326)
The Optimal Collection of Seigniorage: Theory and Evidence (1987) (316)
Hall's consumption hypothesis and durable goods (1982) (308)
News or Noise? an Analysis of Gnp Revisions (1986) (306)
Permanent and Transitory Components in Macroeconomic Fluctuations (1987) (299)
Do We Reject Too Often? Small Sample Properties of Tests of Rational Expectations Models (1985) (296)
Money Demand and the Effects of Fiscal Policies (1986) (271)
Unanticipated Money Growth and Unemployment in the United States (253)
International Evidence on the Persistence of Economic Fluctuations (1989) (253)
Do Long-Term Interest Rates Overreact to Short-Term Interest Rates? (1984) (252)
Defending the One Percent (2013) (228)
Consumer Durables and the Real Interest Rate (1983) (222)
An Unbiased Reexamination of Stock Market Volatility (1985) (221)
Ricardian Consumers with Keynesian Propensities (1984) (213)
What Measure of Inflation Should a Central Bank Target? (2002) (210)
Are preliminary announcements of the money stock rational forecasts (1984) (208)
Risk and Return: Consumption Versus Market Beta (1984) (204)
The Term Structure of Interest Rates Revisited (1986) (197)
The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution (2009) (185)
Trends, random walks, and tests of the permanent income hypothesis (1985) (168)
The permanent income hypothesis and the real interest rate (1981) (166)
Imperfect Competition and the Keynesian Cross (1987) (154)
Sticky Information: A Model of Monetary Nonneutrality and Structural Slumps (2001) (147)
Chapter 25 Government debt (1999) (144)
The Reincarnation of Keynesian Economics (1991) (140)
Intergenerational Risk Sharing in the Spirit of Arrow, Debreu, and Rawls, with Applications to Social Security Design (2001) (137)
Pervasive Stickiness (2006) (135)
Essentials of Economics (1986) (135)
Stock Market Forecastability and Volatility: A Statistical Appraisal (1989) (130)
U.S. Monetary Policy During the 1990s (2001) (127)
Imperfect Information and Aggregate Supply (2010) (122)
Nominal Income Targeting (1993) (121)
A CONTRIBUTION TO THE EMPIRICS OF ECONOMICS GROWTH (1992) (110)
Macroeconomics, 7th Edition (2010) (95)
Consumption: Beyond Certainty Equivalence (1988) (95)
Brief Principles of Macroeconomics (1974) (91)
The Deficit Gamble (1995) (90)
Smart Taxes: An Open Invitation to Join the Pigou Club (2009) (81)
Yes, r > g. So What? (2015) (78)
An Exploration of Optimal Stabilization Policy (2011) (73)
Recent Developments in Macroeconomics: a Very Quick Refresher Course (1987) (71)
Spreading the Wealth Around: Reflections Inspired by Joe the Plumber (2010) (67)
The Uncertain Unit Root in Real GNP (2007) (67)
Government Purchases and Real Interest Rates (1986) (63)
Aggregation and Stabilization Policy in a Multi-Contract Economy (1982) (60)
Excess Capacity , Monopolistic Competition , and International Transmission of Monetary Disturbances (2008) (53)
Principles of Economics, 5th edition (2011) (50)
New Keynesian Economics - Vol. 2: Coordination Failures and Real Rigidities (1991) (50)
Friedman's Presidential Address in the Evolution of Macroeconomic Thought (2017) (48)
Stock Market Yields and the Pricing of Municipal Bonds (1996) (39)
Antidumping: The Third Rail of Trade Policy (2005) (38)
The Worldwide Change in the Behavior of Interest Rates and Prices in 1914 (1987) (37)
Symposium on Keynesian Economics Today (1993) (37)
Should the Fed Smooth Interest Rates? the Case of Seasonal Monetary Policy (1990) (32)
Principles Of Economics : Pengantar Ekonomi Makro (2008) (31)
Pervasive Stickiness (Expanded Version) (2006) (30)
Macroeconomics and the Financial System (2010) (28)
Imperfect competition and sticky prices (1991) (28)
Macroeconomics : european edition (2008) (26)
A Skeptic’s Guide to Modern Monetary Theory (2020) (25)
Interpreting the Correlation Between Inflation and the Skewness of Relative Prices: A Comment on Bryan and Cecchetti (1999) (21)
HOW SHOULD FRINGE BENEFITS BE TAXED? (1985) (20)
[Do Equilibrium Real Business Cycle Theories Explain Postwar U. S. Business Cycles?]: Comment (1986) (18)
Coordination failures and real rigidities (1991) (18)
The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution (2010) (17)
Teaching the Principles of Economics (1998) (17)
Reflections on the trade deficit and fiscal policy (2006) (17)
Consumer Spending and the After-Tax Real Interest Rate (1986) (16)
Questions about fiscal policy: Implications from the financial crisis of 2008-2009 (2010) (16)
Market Power in Neoclassical Growth Models (2021) (16)
[The Neoclassical Revival in Growth Economics: Has It Gone Too Far?]: Comment (1997) (16)
Panel discussion: understanding price determination: where are we now? where should we be going? (2005) (14)
The Adjustment of Expectations to a Change in Regime: Reply (1990) (13)
Do We Reject Too Often? Small Sample Bias in Tests of Rational Expectations (1985) (13)
An Econometric Investigation of Easterlin's ‘Synthesis Framework’: The Philippines and the United States (1986) (11)
That Freshman Course Won't Be Quite the Same (2009) (11)
Principles of Economics: An Asian Edition (2008) (10)
A Letter to Ben Bernanke (2006) (9)
A Skeptic&Apos;S Guide to Modern Monetary Theory (2020) (8)
Commentary: separating the business cycle from other economic fluctuations (2005) (8)
My Rules of Thumb (1996) (8)
Grundzüge der Volkswirtschaftslehre (2018) (8)
1 January 2002 STICKY INFORMATION VERSUS STICKY PRICES : A PROPOSAL TO (2002) (7)
Endogenous Growth and Cross-Country Income Di ff erences By (2000) (7)
Issues in keynesian macroeconomics: A review essay (1986) (7)
Money Demand and the Effects of Fiscal Policies: Reply (1988) (6)
Reflections of a Textbook Author (2020) (6)
Comments Presented at Federal Reserve Conference Price Dynamics: Three Open Questions (2007) (6)
EBOOK : Macroeconomics 8th Edition (2013) (6)
The Tradeoff between Nuance and Clarity (2016) (6)
The founding of the Fed and the behavior of interest rates: What can be learned from small samples? (1994) (6)
PENGANTAR EKONOMI MAKRO (PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS) (2006) (6)
New issues in corporate finance: Colin Mayer (1988) (5)
Pengantar Ekonomi Mikro (Principles of Economics) Edisi 3 / N. Gregory Mankiw (2006) (5)
Microeconomics, 4th edition (2017) (4)
Real business cycles (1997) (4)
The GDP and its discontents (2016) (3)
Commentary: the search for growth (1992) (3)
Optimal Taxation in Theory and Practice (2009) (3)
Fifty Years of the Phillips Curve: A Dialog on What We Have Learned (2009) (3)
Test bank to accompany macroeconomics, fifth edition (2003) (3)
Principles of economics / N. Gregory Mankiw (2007) (3)
Optimal Advice for Monetary Policy (1989) (3)
Permanent ncome, Current ncome, and Consumption (1990) (3)
Optimal Taxation in Theory and Practice (2009) (3)
Comments and Discussion (2019) (3)
The Economic Agenda (2004) (3)
Trends , Random Walks and Persistence : An Empirical Study of Disaggregated U . S . Industrial Production (2007) (3)
Essays on consumption (1984) (2)
Monetary Economics. (Program Report) (2003) (2)
What If the Candidates Pandered to Economists (2008) (2)
EBOOK : Principles of Microeconomics, 7th Edition (2015) (2)
Macroeconomics in Disarray (1992) (2)
Sticky Information: (2021) (2)
How to Increase Taxes on the Rich (If You Must) (2021) (2)
THE I NEXORABLE A ND M YSTERIOUS T RADEOFF BETWEEN I NFLATION A ND U NEMPLOYMENT (2001) (2)
[The New Keynesian Microfoundations]: Comment (1987) (2)
19 Interdependenz und Handelsvorteile (2018) (1)
The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution (2009) (1)
Principles of macroeconomics in New Zealand (2009) (1)
The Past and Future of Econ 101: The John R. Commons Award Lecture (2020) (1)
Makroekonomi / N. Gregory Mankiw; Alih bahasa: Fitria Liza, Imam Nurmawan; Editor : Wibi Hardani, Devri Barnadi, Suryadi Saat (2007) (1)
Supplement: Principles of Economics 8th edition (2017) (1)
Transparency masters : for use with Macroeconomics, fourth edition, N. Gregory Mankiw (2000) (1)
Comments and Discussion (2005) (1)
[Markups and the Business Cycle]: Comment (1991) (1)
Pengantar Ekonomi Makro: Edisi Asia (Principles of Economics: An Asian Edition) Volume 2 (2015) (1)
Epilog: Was wir wissen, was wir nicht wissen (1996) (0)
Test bank : for use with Macroeconomics, fourth edition, N. Gregory Mankiw (2000) (0)
Anhang zu Ein kurzfristiges Modell der großen offenen Volkswirtschaft (2017) (0)
4 Das Geldsystem: Was es ist und wie es funktioniert (2017) (0)
Teil 14 Internationale Makroökonomik (2021) (0)
22 Produktion und Wachstum (2018) (0)
Die Theorie realer Konjunkturzyklen (1993) (0)
The instructor as ambassador (2021) (0)
27 Das monetäre System (2018) (0)
Anhang zu Das Cagan-Modell: Die Wirkungen des gegenwärtigen und des zukünftigen Geldangebots auf das Preisniveau (2017) (0)
The NAIRU in Theory and Practice by Laurence Ball and (2002) (0)
Die offene Volkswirtschaft in kurzfristiger Betrachtung (1993) (0)
Anhang zu Die große offene Volkswirtschaft (2017) (0)
ECONOMICS AND SOCIETY (2008) (0)
Teil 10 Die realökonomische Entwicklung auf lange Sicht (2021) (0)
Study guide : essentials of economics (2003) (0)
15 Ein dynamisches Modell der Gesamtnachfrage und des Gesamtangebots (2017) (0)
24 Sparen, Investieren und das Finanzsystem (2018) (0)
29 Grundsätzliches über die offene Volkswirtschaft (2018) (0)
Macroeconomics & Study Guide (2002) (0)
Front matter, table of contents, acknowledgment (1994) (0)
Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland Vol . XXVII , Part V SYMPOSIUM ON THE ECONOMIC RETURNS TO EDUCATION (2001) (0)
Teil 11 Zinssätze, Geld und Preise auf lange Sicht (2021) (0)
16 Marktstrukturen III: Oligopol (2018) (0)
Government Debt and Capital Accumulation in an Era of Low Interest Rates (2022) (0)
Pengatar Ekonomi Mikro : Principles of economics An Asian Volume 1 (2013) (0)
Teil 9 Makroökonomische Daten (2021) (0)
Teil 6 Ungleichheit (2021) (0)
Epilog: Was wir wissen – und was nicht (2017) (0)
3 Die Marktkräfte von Angebot und Nachfrage (2018) (0)
4 Elastizität und ihre Anwendungen (2018) (0)
10 Öffentliche Güter, Allmendegüter und meritorische Güter (2018) (0)
37 Gebiete mit einheitlicher Währung und die Europäische Währungsunion (2018) (0)
19 Staatsverschuldung und Haushaltsdefizit (2017) (0)
Teil 7 Handel (2021) (0)
Autumn Semester 2015 - Principles of Microeconomics (363-0503-00) (2014) (0)
Study guide to accompany principles of microeconomics (2001) (0)
Anhang zu Zeitinkonsistenz und Tradeoff zwischen Inflation und Arbeitslosigkeit (2017) (0)
Das Bruttosozialprodukt: Entstehung, Verteilung und Verwendung (1993) (0)
3 Das Bruttoinlandsprodukt: Entstehung, Verteilung und Verwendung (1996) (0)
5 Inflation: Ursachen, Wirkungen und soziale Kosten (2017) (0)
14 Arbeitslosigkeit, Inflation und gesamtwirtschaftliches Angebot (2017) (0)
Teil 3 Eingriffe in Märkte (2021) (0)
Anhang zu Die Mutter aller Modelle (2017) (0)
Empirische Beobachtungen und Makroökonomik (1993) (0)
28 Geldmengenwachstum und Inflation (2018) (0)
Geldangebot und Geldnachfrage (1993) (0)
35 Inflation und Arbeitslosigkeit als kurzfristige Alternativen (2018) (0)
12 Gesamtwirtschaftliche Nachfrage II: Anwendung des IS-LM-Modells (2017) (0)
38 Die Finanzkrise und die Staatsverschuldung in Europa (2018) (0)
11 Externalitäten und Marktversagen (2018) (0)
9 Das Steuersystem und die Kosten der Besteuerung (2018) (0)
5 Hintergründe zur Nachfrage: Die klassische Theorie der Konsumentscheidung (2018) (0)
Fachbegriffe Deutsch-Englisch (2021) (0)
10 Einführung in das Problem gesamtwirtschaftlicher Schwankungen (2017) (0)
Teil 1 Einführung in die Volkswirtschaftslehre (2021) (0)
34 Der Einfluss von Geldpolitik und Fiskalpolitik auf die gesamtwirtschaftliche Nachfrage (2018) (0)
Gesamtwirtschaftliche Nachfrage II (1993) (0)
American Economic Association Real Business Cycles : A New Keynesian Perspective (2007) (0)
Teil 2 Angebot und Nachfrage: Wie Märkte funktionieren (2021) (0)
Comment on "The Economics of Border Adjustment Taxes" (2018) (0)
18 Einkommensungleichheit und Armut (2018) (0)
WHAT DO BUDGET DEnCrrS DO (1995) (0)
16 Theorie des Konsumverhaltens (2017) (0)
The Savers-Spenders Theory of Fiscal Policy: Corrigendum (2005) (0)
21 Die Messung der Lebenshaltungskosten (2018) (0)
8 Wirtschaftswachstum I: Kapitalakkumulation und Bevölkerungswachstum (2017) (0)
Principles of Economics -4/E. (2008) (0)
Teil 12 Die Makroökonomik der offenen Volkswirtschaft (2021) (0)
1 Was ist Volkswirtschaftslehre (2018) (0)
An empirical note on money, government debt and inflation (1983) (0)
33 Gesamtwirtschaftliche Nachfrage und gesamtwirtschaftliches Angebot (2018) (0)
11 Gesamtwirtschaftliche Nachfrage I: Entwicklung des IS-LM-Modells (2017) (0)
7 Konsumenten, Produzenten und die Effizienz von Märkten (2018) (0)
32 Keynes, Keynesianer und die IS-LM-Analyse (2018) (0)
Einführung in das Problem wirtschaftlicher Schwankungen (1993) (0)
Student Tutorial: Chapters 7 and 8 (2013) (0)
Geld und Inflation (1996) (0)
8 Angebot, Nachfrage und wirtschaftspolitische Maßnahmen (2018) (0)
Die Diskussion um die Staatsverschuldung (1996) (0)
13 Die Produktionsentscheidung des Unternehmens (2018) (0)
20 Das Finanzsystem: Chancen und Gefahren (2017) (0)
On welfare economics in the principles course (2017) (0)
13 Noch einmal offene Volkswirtschaft: Das Mundell-Fleming-Modell und das Wechselkursregime (2017) (0)
Comment (2019) (0)
6 Hintergründe zum Angebot: Unternehmen in Wettbewerbsmärkten (2018) (0)
Comments and Discussion (2010) (0)
Teil 13 Kurzfristige wirtschaftliche Schwankungen (2021) (0)
Zwei Sichtweisen der Staatsverschuldung (1993) (0)
14 Marktstrukturen I: Monopol (2018) (0)
9 Wirtschaftswachstum II: Technologie, Empirie und Politik (2017) (0)
30 Eine makroökonomische Theorie der offenen Volkswirtschaft (2018) (0)
12 Informationsund Verhaltensökonomik (2018) (0)
15 Markstrukturen II: Monopolistische Konkurrenz (2018) (0)
General discussion (1994) (0)
Principles of economics : study guide to accompany (2001) (0)
Teil 5 Faktormärkte (2021) (0)
Investing in The Future (2016) (0)
20 Volkswirtschaftliche Gesamtrechnung (2018) (0)
Comments and Discussion (2001) (0)
Introduction to "Monetary Policy" (1994) (0)
Prolog zur Makroökonomik (2018) (0)
Comments and Discussion (2007) (0)
Principles of economics : advanced placement student study guide (2010) (0)
Study guide : principles of macroeconomics (2011) (0)
Study guide to accompany brief principles of macroeconomics (2001) (0)
Teil 4 Unternehmensverhalten und Marktstrukturen (2021) (0)
Solutions manual : for use with Macroeconomics, sixth edition, N. Gregory Mankiw (2003) (0)
Comment on "The Macroeconomics of Border Taxes" (2018) (0)
Principles of economics : study guide (2007) (0)
2 Denken wie ein Volkswirt (2018) (0)
Die offene Volkswirtschaft (1993) (0)
Makroökonomik als Wissenschaft (1993) (0)
6 Die offene Volkswirtschaft (2017) (0)
Teil 8 Heterodoxe Ökonomik (2021) (0)
25 Grundlagen der Finanzierung (2018) (0)
Kontroverse Positionen zur makroökonomischen Politik (1993) (0)

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