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According to Wikipedia, Lawrence Henry Summers is an American economist who served as the 71st United States secretary of the treasury from 1999 to 2001 and as director of the National Economic Council from 2009 to 2010. He also served as president of Harvard University from 2001 to 2006, where he is a professor and director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School.

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Lawrence Summers's Published Works

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Published Papers

Noise Trader Risk in Financial Markets (1990) (5436)
Positive Feedback Investment Strategies and Destabilizing Rational Speculation (1989) (2442)
Mean Reversion in Stock Prices: Evidence and Implications (1987) (2039)
Hysteresis and the European Unemployment Problem (1986) (1882)
EFFICIENCY WAGES AND THE INTER-INDUSTRY WAGE STRUCTURE (1988) (1732)
Equipment Investment and Economic Growth (1990) (1713)
Central Bank Independence and Macroeconomic Performance: Some Comparative Evidence (1993) (1602)
The Noise Trader Approach to Finance (1990) (1454)
Breach of Trust in Hostile Takeovers (1987) (1214)
What moves stock prices? (1988) (1197)
Does the Stock Market Rationally Reflect Fundamental Values (1986) (1154)
The Role of Intergenerational Transfers in Aggregate Capital Accumulation (1980) (1074)
Global health 2035: a world converging within a generation (2013) (1061)
The Strategic Bequest Motive (1985) (938)
Good Policy or Good Luck? Country Growth Performance and Temporary Shocks (1993) (879)
Taxation and Corporate Investment: A q-Theory Approach (1981) (766)
The Persistence of Volatility and Stock Market Fluctuations (1984) (751)
Fiscal Policy in a Depressed Economy (2012) (748)
The Survival of Noise Traders in Financial Markets (1988) (704)
U.S. Economic Prospects: Secular Stagnation, Hysteresis, and the Zero Lower Bound (2014) (692)
International Financial Crises: Causes, Prevention, and Cures (2000) (689)
Hysteresis in Unemployment (1986) (635)
The Strategic Bequest Motive (1986) (588)
Some Simple Economics of Mandated Benefits (1989) (587)
Industry Rents: Evidence and Implications (1989) (560)
An aging society: opportunity or challenge? (1990) (542)
Tax policy and the economy (1989) (528)
Capital Taxation and Accumulation in a Life Cycle Growth Model (1981) (501)
Consumption Growth Parallels Income Growth: Some New Evidence (1989) (485)
Intertemporal Substitution in Macroeconomics (1982) (470)
Good policy or good luck (1993) (462)
A Theory of Dual Labor Markets with Application to Industrial Policy, Discrimination, and Keynesian Unemployment (1986) (444)
When financial markets work too well: A cautious case for a securities transactions tax (1989) (428)
Speculative Dynamics and the Role of Feedback Traders (1990) (426)
Regionalism and the world trading system (1991) (420)
A Theory of Dual Labor Markets with Application to Industrial Policy, Discrimination and Keynesian Unemployment (1985) (397)
An Empirical Model of Labor Supply in a Life-Cycle Setting (2007) (396)
How Does Macroeconomic Policy Affect Output (1988) (383)
The Economic Effects of Dividend Taxation (1984) (377)
Demand Side Secular Stagnation (2015) (357)
Tax Policy and International Competitiveness (1986) (334)
Inflation and Activity – Two Explorations and Their Monetary Policy Implications (2015) (333)
New Evidence that Taxes Affect the Valuation of Dividends (1984) (332)
Reform in Eastern Europe (1991) (330)
The Scientific Illusion in Empirical Macroeconomics (1991) (323)
How Should Long Term Monetary Policy Be Determined (1991) (308)
The COVID-19 Pandemic and the $16 Trillion Virus. (2020) (297)
The Size and Incidence of the Losses from Noise Trading (1989) (280)
A CEO Survey of U.S. Companies' Time Horizons and Hurdle Rates (1995) (277)
REPORTING ERRORS AND LABOR MARKET DYNAMICS (1986) (275)
How strongly do developing economies benefit from equipment investment (1993) (272)
Money Demand and the Effects of Fiscal Policies (1986) (270)
Equipment Investment and Economic Growth: How Strong Is the Nexus? (1992) (265)
The Nonadjustment of Nominal Interest Rates: A Study of the Fisher Effect (1982) (263)
Relative Wages, Efficiency Wages, and Keynesian Unemployment (1988) (254)
Central bank independence, growth, investment, and real rates (1993) (249)
The Role of Intergenerational Transfers and Life Cycle Saving in the Accumulation of Wealth (1988) (245)
Do Long-Term Interest Rates Overreact to Short-Term Interest Rates? (1984) (238)
Did Henry Ford Pay Efficiency Wages? (1986) (230)
The Permanent Effects of Fiscal Consolidations (2015) (222)
Remarks at NBER Conference on Diversifying the Science & Engineering Workforce (2005) (218)
The Costs of Conflict Resolution and Financial Distress: Evidence from the Texaco-Pennzoil Litigation (1987) (197)
The Changing Cyclical Variability of Economic Activity in the United States (1984) (195)
Pandemic risk: how large are the expected losses? (2017) (195)
Tax Policy, Asset Prices, and Growth: a General Equilibrium Analysis (1989) (190)
Asiaphoria Meets Regression to the Mean (2014) (186)
Dividend Taxes, Corporate Investment, and "Q" (1981) (185)
INFLATION AND THE TAXATION OF CAPITAL INCOME IN THE CORPORATE SECTOR (1979) (180)
Employee Crime and the Monitoring Puzzle (1989) (175)
Beyond the Natural Rate Hypothesis (1988) (174)
Perspectives on High World Real Interest Rates (1986) (172)
Demographic Differences in Cyclical Employment Variation (1980) (171)
Why is the Unemployment Rate So Very High near Full Employment (1986) (169)
Is Increased Price Flexibility Stabilizing? (1985) (168)
Taxation and the Structure of Labor Markets: The Case of Corporatism (1992) (163)
Proceedings of the World Bank annual conference on development economics 1992 (1993) (158)
Investing in all the people. (1992) (157)
Some Skeptical Observations on Real Business Cycle Theory (1986) (155)
Negative Nominal Interest Rates and the Bank Lending Channel (2019) (147)
Jobs for the Heartland: Place-Based Policies in 21st-Century America (2018) (146)
Investing in all people : educating women in developing countries (1994) (145)
Labor Force Participation: Timing and Persistence (1982) (145)
Unemployment Benefits and Labor Market Transitions: A Multinomial Logit Model with Errors in Classification (1995) (139)
The Taxation of Risky Assets (1982) (136)
Reflections on Global Account Imbalances and Emerging Markets Reserve Accumulation (2007) (134)
Investment Incentives and the Discounting of Depreciation Allowances (1986) (132)
Multiple Shooting in Rational Expectations Models (1982) (131)
Is the Rate of Profit Falling (1977) (129)
The Adequacy of Savings (1981) (127)
Finite lifetimes and the effects of budget deficits on national saving (1987) (121)
Gibson's Paradox and the Gold Standard (1985) (121)
Inflation, the Stock Market, and Owner-Occupied Housing (1980) (120)
Why Is U.S. National Saving So Low (1987) (115)
Should Governments Learn to Live with Inflation (1989) (114)
Inflexible Prices and Procyclical Productivity (1990) (110)
Inflation, Tax Rules, and the Long Term Interest Rates (1978) (108)
Fiscal Increasing Returns, Hysteresis, Real Wages and Unemployment (1986) (107)
The Economic Consequences of Noise Traders (1987) (107)
The Contribution of Intergenerational Transfers to Total Wealth: a Reply (1986) (103)
Can Inter-Industry Wage Differentials Justify Strategic Trade Policy? (1988) (101)
Tax Reform and Corporate Investment: A Microeconometric Simulation Study (1981) (98)
The Inclusive Cost of Pandemic Influenza Risk (2016) (88)
Why Have Private Saving Rates in the United States and Canada Diverged (1987) (87)
How Does the Market Value Unfunded Pension Liabilities? (1985) (87)
A Contagious Malady? Open Economy Dimensions of Secular Stagnation (2016) (87)
The Declining Worker Power Hypothesis: An Explanation for the Recent Evolution of the American Economy (2020) (86)
U.S. Competitiveness: Beyond the Trade Deficit (1988) (81)
[Global health 2035: a world converging within a generation]. (2015) (81)
The Structural-Adjustment Debate (1993) (80)
Macroeconomic policy and long-run growth (1992) (80)
Secular Stagnation in the Open Economy (2016) (79)
Understanding Bank Risk through Market Measures (2016) (75)
Productivity and Pay: Is the Link Broken? (2017) (75)
Poverty in America: is Welfare the Answer or the Problem? (1985) (74)
Tax Policy, the Rate of Return, and Savings (1982) (74)
Unexpected Inflation , Real Wages , and Employment Determination in Union Contracts (74)
On Secular Stagnation in the Industrialized World (2019) (72)
The new economy: background, historical perspective, questions, and speculations (2001) (70)
A Tax-Based Test for Nominal Rigidities (1985) (68)
Chapter 16 Tax incidence (1987) (68)
The after Tax Rate of Return Affects Private Savings (1984) (68)
Equipment Investment and Economic Growth: Reply (1994) (68)
Erratum: Global health 2035: a world converging within a generation (Lancet (2013) 382 (1898-1955)) (2014) (64)
GOVERNMENT DEBT MANAGEMENT AT THE ZERO LOWER BOUND (2014) (64)
Have we Entered an Age of Secular Stagnation? IMF Fourteenth Annual Research Conference in Honor of Stanley Fischer, Washington, DC (2015) (61)
Notes on the Tax Treatment of Structures (1986) (60)
Alma-Ata at 40 years: reflections from the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health (2018) (60)
Tax Incidence in a Life Cycle Model with Variable Labor Supply (1979) (59)
Uniform-Price Auctions: Update of the Treasury Experience (1998) (55)
Investing in All the People: Educating Women in Developing Countries. EDI Seminar Paper No. 45. (1994) (55)
The National Bureau of Economic Research (2013) (55)
The U.S. current account deficit and the global economy (2004) (55)
Speculative Dynamics (1990) (52)
On Economics and Finance (1985) (52)
Excess Capacity , Monopolistic Competition , and International Transmission of Monetary Disturbances (2008) (51)
4How Globalization Affects Tax Design (2009) (49)
Distinguished Lecture on Economics in Government Reflections on Managing Global Integration (1999) (49)
Why Have Private Saving Rates in the United States and Canada Diverged? (1987) (49)
Why Have Private Saving Rates in the United States and Canada Diverged? (1987) (49)
Policymaking for posterity (2008) (48)
Recent Lessons of Development (1993) (47)
How much donor financing for health is channelled to global versus country-specific aid functions? (2015) (44)
Economists' declaration on universal health coverage (2015) (41)
Inflation and the Valuation of Corporate Equities (1981) (39)
Progress and confusion : the state of macroeconomic policy (2016) (38)
Efficiency Wages and the Wage Structure (1986) (37)
Public policy implications of declining old-age mortality. (1985) (34)
Financing of international collective action for epidemic and pandemic preparedness (2017) (33)
The Optimal Maturity of Government Debt (2015) (32)
Bequests as a Means of Payment (1984) (32)
CONSUMPTION GROWTH PARALLELS INCOME GROWTH (1989) (31)
Should Keynesian Economics Dispense with the Phillips Curve (1991) (31)
How Does the Market Value Unfunded Pension Liabilities (1985) (31)
Secular Stagnation and Monetary Policy (2016) (30)
Issues in National Savings Policy (1985) (30)
Estimating the Long-Run Relationship between Interest Rates and Inflation: a Response to Mccallum (1984) (29)
Do We Really Know that Financial Markets are Efficient? (1982) (28)
Who’s Afraid of Budget Deficits? (2019) (27)
Building an International Financial Architecture for the 21st Century (1999) (26)
WHY HAVE PRIVATE SAVINGS RATES IN THE UNITED (1987) (24)
Secular Stagnation and Macroeconomic Policy (2018) (23)
Is Increased Price Flexibility Stabilizing? Reply (1988) (23)
Should Tax Reform Level the Playing Field? (1987) (23)
Observations on the Indexation of Old Age Pensions (1982) (23)
Should Nations Learn to Live with Inflation? (1989) (23)
Labor Hoarding, Inflexible Prices, and Procyclical Productivity (1988) (22)
Optimal Inflation Policy (1979) (22)
Inflation, Taxation, and Corporate Investment: A Q-Theory Approach (1980) (22)
Low Equilibrium Real Rates, Financial Crisis, and Secular Stagnation (2014) (21)
Tax Policy in a Life Cycle Model (1978) (20)
Economic Possibilities for Our Children (2013) (20)
The Investment Tax Credit: An Evaluation (1979) (20)
The Age of Secular Stagnation (2016) (18)
Asia-phoria meet regression to the mean (2013) (18)
Taxes for health: evidence clears the air (2018) (18)
Renewing the Atlantic partnership : report of an Independent Task Force sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations (2004) (18)
Taxation and the Size and Composition of the Capital Stock: an Asset Price Approach (1985) (18)
On the Existence and Interpretation of the "Unit Root" in U.S. Gnp (1988) (16)
Investing in All the People (The Quaid-i-Azam Lecture) (1992) (16)
Unemployment Insurance and Labor Force Transitions (1982) (15)
Automatic Stabilizers in a Low-Rate Environment (2020) (15)
Labor Force Transitions and Unemployment (1978) (14)
The Asset Price Approach to the Analysis of Capital Income Taxation (1984) (14)
Dark deals and dampened destinies: corruption and economic performance (1999) (13)
Why Do Firms Monitor Workers (1990) (13)
Employee Crime, Monitoring, and the Efficiency Wage Hypothesis (1987) (12)
The Effects of Dividends on Common Stock Prices: Tax Effects or Information Effects? Discussion (1982) (12)
Japan&Apos;S High Saving Rate Reaffirmed (1991) (12)
Shrinking the Tax Gap: Approaches and Revenue Potential (2019) (12)
Corporatism, the laissez-faire, and the rise in unemployment: By A. Newell and J.S.V. Symons (1987) (12)
Tax Policy and Corporate Investment (1980) (11)
Adjusting the Gross Changes Data: Implications for Labor Market Dynamics (1984) (11)
Unemployment Benefits, Labor Market Transitions, and Spurious Flows: A Multinational Logit Model with Errors in Classification (1993) (11)
Debt Management Conflicts between the U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve (2015) (11)
Declining Worker Power and American Economic Performance (2020) (10)
COMPETITION POLICY IN THE NEW ECONOMY (2016) (10)
WHAT CAN ECONOMICS CONTRIBUTE TO SOCIAL POLICY ? ' Some Simple Economics of Mandated Benefits (2007) (10)
Survey Response Variation in the Current Population Survey (1983) (10)
Achieving Progressive Tax Reform in an Increasingly Global Economy (2007) (10)
Reorienting health aid to meet post-2015 global health challenges: a case study of Sweden as a donor (2016) (9)
Macroeconomic Consequences of Financial Crises (1991) (9)
Renewing The Atlantic Partnership (2004) (9)
Finite Lifetimes and the Crowding Out Effects of Budget Deficits (1986) (9)
Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 3 (1989) (8)
Taxation and Corporate Debt (1989) (8)
Aging, Output Per Capita, and Secular Stagnation (2019) (8)
Fiscal Policy and Full Employment (2017) (8)
The US-Japanese stake in a free and open Asian capital market (1997) (8)
Who Benefits from Capital Gains Tax Reductions? (1990) (7)
Cyclical dynamics in the new economy (2003) (7)
Principles for Economic Recovery and Renewal (2010) (7)
Postwar Developments in Business Cycle Theory: A Moderately Classical Perspective: Comment (1988) (7)
Inflation and the Taxation of Capital in the Corporate Sector: Reply (1980) (6)
On the Existence and Interpretation of the (1988) (6)
Keynote Address: Knowledge for Effective Action (1991) (6)
Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 1 (1987) (6)
Recent Evidence on Budget Deficits and National Savings (1987) (6)
'Economic policy in the face of declining productivity growth' by Nordhaus (1982) (6)
Money Demand and the Effects of Fiscal Policies: Reply (1988) (6)
Crises in Economic Thought, Secular Stagnation, and Future Economic Research (2017) (6)
Understanding the Revenue Potential of Tax Compliance Investment (2020) (6)
Rethinking How We Score Capital Gains Tax Reform (2021) (5)
American farmers: their stake in Asia, their stake in the IMF (1998) (5)
Measuring Unemployment (2007) (5)
The 1983 Increase in the Federal (1987) (4)
Discussant comments on “Fiscal Policy in a Depressed Economy” by J. Bradford DeLong and Lawrence H. Summers (2012) (4)
World Bank policy and research bulletin 10(2) (1999) (4)
`On the economics of private money' by Robert G. King (1983) (3)
A Theory of Demand Side Secular Stagnation (2019) (3)
Dividing Capital Accumulation Into Its Life Cycle and Intergenerational Transfer Components (1978) (3)
On Market-Based Approaches to the Valuation of Capital (2018) (3)
The challenge of forward progress in South Africa and across the region (2000) (3)
How to convene an international health or development commission: ten key steps (2018) (3)
How much donor fi nancing for health is channelled to global versus country-specifi c aid functions ? (2015) (3)
TrumpEconomics: A first year evaluation (2018) (3)
General discussion: global demographic change: dimensions and economic significance (2004) (3)
Perspective: On the Share Economy: Prospects and Problems … (1986) (3)
Should Governments Learn to Live with Inflation? Reply (1993) (3)
The fusion of civilizations (2016) (2)
Keynote Speech: Population Problem Confronted by the World Economy: A Summary (1993) (2)
Comparing Real GDP Across Countries: Comment (2016) (2)
WHY IS UNEMPLOYMENT SO HIGH IN EUROPE?t Beyond the Natural Rate Hypothesis (2016) (2)
INFLATION AND THE TAXATION OF CAPITAL INCOME IN THE CORPORATE SECTOR: REPLY (1980) (2)
Corporate Takeovers: Causes and Consequences (1988) (2)
Long Run Tax Incidence and Variable Labor Supply Revisited (1978) (2)
Why are central banks pursuing long-run price stability? (commentary) (1996) (2)
Tax Incidence (1986) (2)
Tax Policy and the Economy: Volume 2 (1988) (2)
Corporate bankruptcy: The costs of conflict resolution and financial distress: Evidence from the Texaco-Pennzoil litigation (1996) (2)
Price-Level "Flexibility" and the Coming of the New Deal: Reply to Sumner (1990) (2)
Comments on Richard Zeckhauser's Investing in the Unknown and Unknowable (2006) (2)
A labor market view on the risks of a U.S. hard landing (2022) (1)
18-5 Productivity and Pay : Is the Link Broken ? (2018) (1)
General discussion : the impact of population aging on financial markets (2004) (1)
Ripensare le politiche macroeconomiche: evoluzione o rivoluzione? (Evolution or Revolution? Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy after the Great Recession) (2019) (1)
Economic Priorities for the Next President (1988) (1)
China: Imposing economic threat or unprecedented growth opportunity? (2012) (1)
The Clinton Administration’s International Economic Policy (1994) (1)
Investing in health – Authors' reply (2014) (1)
7 Debt Problems and Macroeconomic Policies (0)
Would a Wealth Tax Help Combat Inequality? (2021) (0)
Summers What It Is and What to Do About It The Age of Secular Stagnation (2016) (0)
Introductory Remarks (2000) (0)
NBER WOEXINC PAPER SERIES ON THE EXISTENCE AND INTERPRETATION OF A "UNIT ROOT" IN U.S. GNP (2002) (0)
Harvard Business Review on Leadership in a Changed World (2004) (0)
Comment (2019) (0)
The New Wealth of Nations: Lessons from the 1990s (1999) (0)
The $13 Trillion Question: How America Managers Its Debt (2015) (0)
WP / 19 / 40 Are Labor Market Indicators Telling the Truth ? Role of Measurement Error in the U . S . Current Population Survey (2019) (0)
IJ\B0R HOARDING. INFLEXIBLE PRICES AND PROCYCLICAL PRODUCTIVITY (2008) (0)
On Secular Stagnation in the Industrialized World-Online Appendixes (2019) (0)
Tax Polky and Corporate Investment (1980) (0)
From Full Employment to the Natural Rate of Unemployment: A Survey (2006) (0)
Social Security Technical Panel Report to the 1991 Advisory Council on Social Security: appendices. (1990) (0)
Dewey Oct 25 198^ Working Paper Alfred P. Sloan School of Management Intertemporal Substitution in Macroeconomics Intertemporal Substitution in Macroeconomics Received Prellraiaary Intertemporal Substitution in Macroeconomics Intertemporal Substitution in Macroeconomics (2008) (0)
Tax Policy and the Economy (Volume 4) (1990) (0)
Comment on "Government Guarantees and the Valuation of American Banks" (2018) (0)
The World Bank research observer 8 (2) (1993) (0)
A vision for development : dialogues on the work of Vinod Thomas (2011) (0)
Table 18.1, Worldwide Mortality from Selected Influenza Pandemics, 1700–2000a (2017) (0)
Box 18.2, Estimating Pandemic Severity and Risk (2017) (0)
[Recent Trends in U.S. Earnings and Family Incomes]: Comment (1989) (0)
Introduction and conceptual framework : divergence and delinkage (2021) (0)
Underachieving in America: Researchers Document International Gaps, a Journalist Seeks the Cause (2014) (0)
Bad news for the Fed from the Beveridge space (2022) (0)
Parallels Income Growth: Some New Evidence (1991) (0)
Comment on "The Financial Soundness of US Banks" (2018) (0)
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES ON SECULAR STAGNATION IN THE INDUSTRIALIZED WORLD (2019) (0)
The Usefulness of the Wind-Up Measure of Pension Liabilities: a Labourmarket Perspective (1985) (0)
in Economic Fluctuations. Any opinions expressed are those of the authors (1988) (0)
The Demographic Composition of Cyclical Variations in Employment. (1979) (0)
[Labor Demand, Labor Supply, and Employment Volatility]: Comment (1991) (0)
Symposium – Built Up: An Historical Perspective on the Contemporary Principles and Practices of Real Estate Development, by Patrice Derrington. London: Routledge (2021) (2022) (0)

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