Randall Wright
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Randall D. Wright is a Canadian academic macroeconomist who advanced the fields of monetary economics and labor economics through his role in the development of matching theory. Biography Wright obtained a B.A. in Economics at the University of Manitoba in 1979 and a Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Minnesota in 1986. He was awarded an honorary M.A. by the University of Pennsylvania in 1990. His first position was as an assistant professor at Cornell from 1984 to 1987. He then moved to the University of Pennsylvania, where he became a full professor in 1994, later becoming the James Joo-Jin Kim Professor of Economics. In 2009, Wright accepted a position in the Economics Department at University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is at the same time the Ray B. Zemon Chair in Liquid Assets in the Wisconsin School of Business' Department of Finance, Investment and Banking.
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Published Works
- On Money as a Medium of Exchange (1989) (1393)
- A Search-Theoretic Approach to Monetary Economics (1993) (821)
- Homework in Macroeconomics: Household Production and Aggregate Fluctuations (1991) (791)
- A Unified Framework for Monetary Theory and Policy Analysis (2005) (734)
- A Unified Framework for Monetary Theory and Policy Analysis (2005) (734)
- A Unified Framework for Monetary Theory and Policy Analysis (2002) (733)
- Search, Bargaining, Money, and Prices (1995) (612)
- Money in Search Equilibrium, in Competitive Equilibrium, and in Competitive Search Equilibrium (2003) (569)
- Pricing and Matching with Frictions (2001) (550)
- An equilibrium model of the business cycle with household production and fiscal policy (1995) (393)
- Adverse Selection in Competitive Search Equilibrium (2009) (357)
- A contribution to the pure theory of money (1991) (347)
- Money and Capital (2007) (251)
- Barter and monetary exchange under private information (1991) (240)
- Search-Theoretic Models of the Labor Market: A Survey (2002) (234)
- Crime, Inequality, and Unemployment (2002) (233)
- Competitive Pricing and Efficiency in Search Equilibrium (2002) (227)
- Liquidity: A New Monetarist Perspective (2017) (216)
- Inflation and Unemployment in the Long Run (2008) (210)
- Information, Liquidity, Asset Prices, and Monetary Policy (2012) (210)
- New Monetarist Economics: Models (2010) (210)
- Household Production in Real Business Cycle Theory (1993) (206)
- A Model of Money and Credit, with Application to the Credit Card Debt Puzzle (2007) (191)
- Estimating substitution elasticities in household production models (1995) (182)
- Homework in Development Economics: Household Production and the Wealth of Nations (2000) (175)
- Coexistence of money and interest-bearing securities (1996) (163)
- The redistributive roles of unemployment insurance and the dynamics of voting (1986) (155)
- Two-Sided Search with Nontransferable Utility☆☆☆ (1998) (138)
- Money and Banking in Search Equilibrium (2005) (133)
- Directed Matching and Monetary Exchange (2003) (126)
- Money, Banking, and Monetary Policy (2006) (123)
- Unemployment Insurance and Short-Time Compensation: The Effects on Layoffs, Hours per Worker, and Wages (1989) (122)
- New Monetarist Economics: Methods (2010) (118)
- Indivisibilities, Lotteries, and Monetary Exchange (2002) (117)
- Housing and Liquidity (2015) (112)
- An On-the-Job Search Model of Crime, Inequality, and Unemployment (2003) (110)
- A Model of Commodity Money, with Applications to Gresham's Law and the Debasement Puzzle☆☆☆ (1997) (108)
- Government Transaction Policy, Media of Exchange, and Prices (1998) (107)
- Homework in labor economics: Household production and intertemporal substitution (2000) (104)
- Dynamics, cycles, and sunspot equilibria in 'genuinely dynamic, fundamentally disaggregative' models of money (2003) (100)
- A Dynamic Equilibrium Model of Search, Bargaining, and Money (1998) (99)
- Open market operations (2018) (95)
- The Economics of Internal Labor Markets (1990) (94)
- Banking: A New Monetarist Approach (2013) (92)
- Involuntary unemployment in economies with efficient risk sharing (1988) (88)
- Sticky Prices: A New Monetarist Approach (2011) (87)
- Pledgability and Liquidity: A New Monetarist Model of Financial and Macroeconomic Activity (2013) (76)
- Buyers, Sellers, and Middlemen: Variations on Search‐Theoretic Themes (2011) (76)
- Search, Money, and Capital: A Neoclassical Dichotomy (2002) (73)
- Liquidity and Asset Market Dynamics (2010) (71)
- Why Is Automobile Insurance In Philadelphia So Damn Expensive (1992) (70)
- Search and the market for ideas (2010) (70)
- Optimal firm size, taxes, and unemployment (1989) (69)
- Endogenous Credit Cycles (2011) (68)
- Money and Credit Redux (2016) (68)
- Search, evolution, and money (1995) (66)
- Information and Liquidity (2011) (65)
- More on money as a medium of exchange (1993) (64)
- The Labor Market in Real Business Cycle Theory * (2012) (62)
- Indivisibilities, lotteries, and sunspot equilibria (1993) (62)
- Innovation and Growth with Financial, and Other, Frictions (2011) (60)
- Search-theoretic models of international currency (1996) (60)
- The labor market in real business cycle theory (1992) (59)
- Two-sided search (1994) (59)
- Directed Search: A Guided Tour (2017) (55)
- Search-based models of money and finance: An integrated approach (2016) (55)
- Job Search and Cyclical Unemployment (1986) (55)
- Price setting, price dispersion, and the value of money - or - The law of two prices (2004) (52)
- Generalized search-theoretic models of monetary exchange (2001) (51)
- Cigarette Money (2001) (50)
- Inflation and Welfare in Models with Trading Frictions (2003) (49)
- Liquidity and asset-market dynamics (2010) (47)
- The search-theoretic approach to monetary economics: a primer (2000) (45)
- On the multiplicity of monetary equilibria: Green-Zhou meets Lagos-Wright (2010) (44)
- A uniqueness proof for monetary steady state (2010) (44)
- Matching and Money (2002) (43)
- Unstable Relationships (2001) (43)
- ON THE “HOT POTATO” EFFECT OF INFLATION: INTENSIVE VERSUS EXTENSIVE MARGINS (2011) (42)
- Household production and taxation in the stochastic growth model (1993) (41)
- Crime, Inequality, and Unemployment, Second Version (2003) (41)
- Competitive Search Equilibrium with Asymmetric Information (2004) (40)
- Money and Capital: A Quantitative Analysis (2009) (40)
- General equilibrium with nonconvexities and money (2008) (38)
- A dynamic equilibrium model of search, production, and exchange (1993) (36)
- International Currency (2001) (35)
- Homework in Monetary Economics: Inflation, Home Production, and the Production of Homes (2012) (34)
- Alternative Theories of Wage Dispersion (2005) (33)
- Pricing with frictions (1998) (33)
- Directed Search and Competitive Search Equilibrium: A Guided Tour (2021) (32)
- Taxes, redistribution, and growth (1996) (31)
- Venture Capital: A Model of Search and Bargaining (2016) (31)
- Venture Capital: A Model of Search and Bargaining (2016) (31)
- Venture Capital: A Model of Search and Bargaining (2016) (31)
- Market structure and competitive equilibrium in dynamic economic models (1987) (31)
- Frictional Goods Markets: Theory and Applications (2019) (30)
- Monetary mechanisms (2016) (30)
- How to Get the Most From University Relationships (2008) (28)
- Inflation and Unemployment in General Equilibrium (2007) (28)
- Corporate Finance and Monetary Policy (2018) (27)
- Optimal Monetary Policy: What We Know and What We Don't Know (2005) (26)
- When is Money Essential? A Comment on Aliprantis, Camera and Puzzello (2007) (25)
- Acceptability, means of payment, and media of exchange (1992) (25)
- Search, bargaining, money and prices: recent results and policy implications (1993) (25)
- Information, Liquidity and Asset Prices (2008) (24)
- Putting home economics into macroeconomics (1993) (24)
- Costly Credit and Sticky Prices (2015) (23)
- Toward a theory of international currency: a step further (1995) (21)
- On the future of macroeconomics: a New Monetarist perspective (2018) (21)
- Directed Search and Competitive Search : A Guided Tour ∗ (2019) (19)
- The Role of Household Production in Models of Involuntary Unemployment and Underemployment (1992) (18)
- Banking: A Mechanism Design Approach (2009) (18)
- A simple search model of money with heterogeneous agents and partial acceptability (2002) (18)
- A Note on Sunspot Equilibria in Search Models of Fiat Money (1994) (18)
- The Observational Implications of Labor Contracts in a Dynamic General Equilibrium Model (1988) (17)
- INTERVIEW WITH DAVID CASS (1998) (17)
- 'Information, Liquidity, Asset Prices and Monetary Policy', Second Version (2010) (15)
- HOMEWORK IN MACROECONOMICS I: BASIC THEORY (1990) (15)
- AN INTERVIEW WITH PETER DIAMOND (2007) (15)
- MONEY AS A MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE WHEN GOODS VARY BY SUPPLY AND DEMAND (1997) (15)
- Search, Layoffs, and Reservation Wages (1987) (14)
- A new suggestion for simplifying the theory of money (2017) (14)
- Labor Market Fluctuations in the Small and in the Large (2008) (13)
- Unemployment Insurance, Taxes, and Unemployment (1987) (12)
- Introduction to 'Models of Monetary Economies Ii: The Next Generation' (2005) (12)
- Frictional Capital Reallocation I: Ex Ante Heterogeneity (2018) (12)
- HOMEWORK IN MACROECONOMICS II: AGGREGATE FLUCTUATIONS (1990) (12)
- Liquidity and the Market for Ideas (2006) (12)
- Household production and development (1999) (12)
- Money and finance: An integrated approach (2012) (12)
- Playing with Money (2019) (11)
- A note on asymmetric and mixed strategy equilibria in the search-theoretic model of fiat money (1999) (11)
- Intermediation in Markets for Goods and Markets for Assets (2019) (10)
- Sticky Prices and Costly Credit (2020) (9)
- Frictional capital reallocation with ex post heterogeneity (2020) (9)
- On the Instability of Banking and Financial Intermediation (2019) (8)
- General Equilibrium With Nonconvexities, Sunspots, and Money (2005) (8)
- Monetary Policy in Low-Inflation Economies: Inflation and Welfare in Models with Trading Frictions (2009) (8)
- Search for a Theory of Money (1990) (8)
- Money and Credit: Theory and Applications (2017) (8)
- Marriage, Markets, and Money: A Coasian Theory of Household Formation (2016) (8)
- Homework in Macoreconomics I: Basic Theory (Part I of Ii) (1990) (7)
- The labor market implications of unemployment insurance and short-term compensation (1991) (7)
- Dynamic bargaining theory (1994) (6)
- Comment on Inside and Outside Money as Alternative Media of Exchange (1999) (6)
- More on Middlemen: Equilibrium Entry and Efficiency in Intermediated Markets (2014) (6)
- Buyers, sellers and middlemen: variations in search theory (2011) (6)
- Inflation and unemployment: Lagos-Wright meets Mortensen-Pissarides (2007) (6)
- Search-and-Matching Models of Monetary Exchange (2010) (5)
- On Complicated Dynamics in Simple Monetary Models (2019) (5)
- A Simple Model of Price Dispersion and Price Rigidity (2014) (4)
- A note on labor contracts with private information and household production (1991) (4)
- Search, Money and Capital: A Neoclassical Dichotomy, Second Version (2003) (4)
- Introduction to "Models of Monetary Economies II: The Next Generation" (2005) (4)
- FIAT MONEY IN SEARCH EQUILIBRIUM (1988) (4)
- THE EFFECTS OF NEWS WHEN LIQUIDITY MATTERS (2020) (4)
- Equilibrium Price Dispersion and Rigidity: A New Monetarist Approach (2010) (4)
- The Welfare Costs of Moderate Inflations: Comment (1991) (4)
- The Effects of Monetary Policy and Other Announcements (2016) (3)
- INTRODUCTION TO THE MACROECONOMIC DYNAMICS SPECIAL ISSUES ON MONEY, CREDIT, AND LIQUIDITY (2010) (3)
- On the Instability of Banking and Other Financial Intermediation (2019) (3)
- Discussion of "Business Cycle and the Life Cycle" (2004) (3)
- An Introduction to the Economics of Job Search and Frictional Unemployment (1983) (3)
- Macroeconomic Policy and Household Economics (2015) (3)
- Inflation and Unemployment in General Equilibrium - eScholarship (2007) (3)
- Equilibrium Wage Dispersion: An Example (2006) (3)
- Price Setting, Price Dispersion, and the Value of Money - or the Law of Two Prices (2001) (3)
- Subsidization and Stabilization: Optimal Employment Policy under Aggregate Uncertainty (1991) (3)
- Sticky Prices: AN ew Monetarist Approach ∗ (2011) (3)
- Is Money Essential? An Experimental Approach (2021) (3)
- Introduction to the Special Issue on Search, Matching and Related Topics (1999) (2)
- Toxic Assets and Market Freezes (2020) (2)
- Search, Money, and Capital: A Neoclassical (2003) (2)
- Endogenous Credit Cycle (2011) (2)
- A Simple Model of Monetary Exchange Based on Nonconvexities and Sunspots (2004) (2)
- Introduction to the symposium issue on money and liquidity (2016) (2)
- Endogenous Liquidity and Capital Reallocation (2021) (2)
- Labor Markets and Labor Contracts in a Dynamic, General Equilibrium Model (1983) (2)
- Macroeconomic fluctuations and the labor market (2007) (2)
- Are Prices Sticky and Does It Matter (2016) (2)
- Alternative Models of Wage Dispersion (2005) (2)
- The effects of risk on efficient labor contracts (1991) (2)
- The Effects of Monetary Policy Announcements (2019) (1)
- How Well Does Search Theory Explain Housing Prices? (2020) (1)
- Introduction to the Macroeconomic Dynamics: Special Issues on Money, Credit, and Liquidity (2010) (1)
- Labor markets and labor contracts in an overlapping generations model with infinite lived employers (1984) (1)
- Estimating the Intertemporal Elasticity of Substitution in a Model with Household Production: Implications for Macroeconomics (2000) (1)
- A note on purifying mixed strategy equilibria in the search-theoretic model of fiat money (1998) (1)
- Pledgability and Liquidity (2012) (1)
- Modeling House Prices (2017) (1)
- New Monetarist Economics (2019) (1)
- A Note on Purifying Mixed Strategy Equilibria in the Search Model of Money (1997) (1)
- Dynamics, Cycles and Sunspot Equilibria in 'Genuinely Dynamic Fundamentally Disaggregative' Models of Money (2002) (1)
- Modeling House Prices: Theory and Estimation (2020) (1)
- Search, Money, and Capital: a Neoclassical Dichotomy Search, Money and Capital: a Neoclassical Dichotomy (2002) (1)
- Asset pricing in monetary economies (2021) (1)
- A Simple Model of Monetary Exchange with Sticky and Disperse Prices (2015) (1)
- Economics to econometrics : contributions in honor of Daniel L. McFadden (2007) (1)
- The 2006 Summer Workshop on Money, Banking, and Payments: An Overview (2007) (0)
- Market Freezes (2021) (0)
- Wage Dispersion: An Example (2005) (0)
- Innovation and Growth with Frictions (2016) (0)
- Money and Credit (2017) (0)
- Homework in Monetary Economics: Inflation and House Prices (2011) (0)
- A discussion of Cooley and Hansen's \\"welfare costs of moderate inflations.\\" (1991) (0)
- An Equilibrium Model of theBusiness Cycle With HouseholdProduction and Fiscal (2015) (0)
- Code and data files for "Housing and Liquidity" (2014) (0)
- A Conference on Liquidity in Frictional Markets (2009) (0)
- Replication data for: Corporate Finance and Monetary Policy (2017) (0)
- Code and data files for "Frictional Capital Reallocation with Ex Post Heterogeneity" (2020) (0)
- Introduction to the Special Issue in Honor of Dale Mortensen (2016) (0)
- General Equilibrium with Multiple Liquid Assets (2023) (0)
- FRB Chicago, FRB Minneapolis, and NBER (2016) (0)
- Workshop on Money, Banking, and Payments: Proceedings (2005) (0)
- On the 'Hot Potato Effect' of Inflation: Intensive Versus Extensive Margins (2009) (0)
- The 2005 Summer Workshop on Money, Banking, and Payments: An Overview (2006) (0)
- Playing with Money, Working Paper 19-02R (2019) (0)
- In fl ation and Unemployment in the (2009) (0)
- Commentary on "the cyclicality of hires, separations, and job-to-job transitions" (2005) (0)
- Financial Frictions, Innovation, and Economic Growth (2009) (0)
- “On the ‘Hot Potato Effect’ of Inflation: Intensive versus Extensive Margins†(2009) (0)
- Chapter 3 Alternative Theories of Wage Dispersion (2006) (0)
- Commentary on "Information, Sticky Prices and Macroeconomic Foundations" (1995) (0)
- Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Research Department Staa Report 215 a Model of Commodity Money, with Applications to Gresham's Law and the Debasement Puzzle Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago I. the Basic Model Ii. Equilibrium and Gresham's Law (1997) (0)
- WILLIAM VICKREY Today's Task for Economists (2016) (0)
- Constructing Stategies in the Indefinitely Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma Game (2016) (0)
- Information, sticky prices and macroeconomic foundations: commentary (1995) (0)
- Diamond-Dybvig and beyond: On the instability of banking (2023) (0)
- A Conference on Liquidity in Frictional Markets, Policy Discussion Paper No. 26 (2009) (0)
- Macroeconomic Policy and Household Economics Both theory and evidence suggest that fiscal and monetary policy have profound influence on household formation and behavior (2015) (0)
- Recent Developments in Monetary Economics: A Summary of the 2004 Workshop on Money, Banking, and Payments (2005) (0)
- Summer Workshop on Money, Banking, Payments and Finance: An Overview (2010) (0)
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