Robert J. Barro (1944-)

Profesor en la Universidad de Harvard, es uno de los economistas actuales más citados en las revistas del "Index". 

Sus primeros trabajos, a comienzos de los setenta, estaban en la línea de los post-keynesianos, Leijonhufvud y Clower. A mediados de la década de los setenta, se une a Lucas en el desarrollo y análisis de las consecuencias de la hipótesis de las expectativas racionales. Junto a la corriente de la Nueva Economía Clásica, trabaja en modelos de imposición óptima, política monetaria, análisis de los ciclos y teoría del crecimiento.

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Email: rbarro@harvard.edu

Obras de Robert J. Barro

• "Inflation, the Payments Period and the Demand for Money", 1970, JPE.
• "A General Disequilibrium Model of Income and Employment", con H.I.Grossman, 1971, AER.
• "Inflationary Finance and the Welfare Cost of Inflation", 1972, JPE.
• "A Theory of Monopolisitc Price Adjustment", 1972, RES
• "Suppressed Inflation and the Supply Multiplier", con H.I. Grossman, 1974, RES
• "Are Government Bonds Net Wealth?", 1974, JPE
• "Reply to Buchanan and Wagner", 1976, JPE
• Money, Employment and Inflation, con H.I. Grossman, 1976.
• "Recent Developments in Monetary Theory", con S. Fischer, 1976, JME
• "Rational Expectations and the Role of Monetary Policy", 1976, JME
• "Recent Developments in Monetary Theory", con S. Fischer, 1976, JME.
• "Long-Term Contracting, Sticky Prices and Monetary Policy", 1977, JME.
• "Unanticipated Money Growth and Unemployment in the United States", 1977, AER.
• "Unanticipated Money, Output, and the Price Level in the United States", 1978, JPE.
• "Comment from an Unreconstructed Ricardian", 1978, JME
• Impact of Social Security on Private Saving: Evidence from the U.S. time series, 1978.
• "Social Security and Consumer Spending in an International Cross-Section", con G.M. MacDonald, 1979, J Public Econ
• "Money and the Price Level under the Gold Standard", 1979, EJ
• "On the Determination of the Public Debt", 1979, JPE.
• "Federal Deficit Policy and the Effects of Public Debt Shocks", 1980, JMCB
• "A Capital Market in an Equilibrium Business Cycle Model", 1980, Econometrica.
• "Unanticipated Money and Economic Activity" con M. Rush, 1980, in Fischer, editor, Rational Expectations.
• "Money Stock Revisions and Unanticipated Money Growth", con Z. Hercowitz, 1980, JME
• Money, Expectations and Business Cycles, 1981.
• "Output Effects of Government Purchases", 1981, JPE
• "Rules, Discretion and Reputation in a Model of Monetary Policy", con D.B. Gordon, 1983, JME.
• "A Positive Theory of Monetary Policy in a Natural Rate Model", con D.B. Gordon, 1983, JPE.
• "Inflationary Finance under Discretion and Rules", 1983, Canadian JE.
• "Time-Separable Preferences and Intertemporal Substitution Models of Business Cycles", con R.G. King, 1984, QJE
• Macroeconomics, 1984.
• "Reputation in a Model of Monetary Policy with Incomplete Information", 1986, JME.
• "Recent Developments in the Theory of Rules versus Discretion", 1986, EJ
• "U.S. Deficits since World War I", 1986, Scandanavian JE
• "Average Marginal Tax Rates from Social Security and the Individual Income Tax", con C. Sahasakul, 1986, J of Business.
• "Government Spending, Interest Rates, Prices and Budget Deficits in the United Kingdom, 1701-1918", 1987, JME
• "A Reformulation of the Economic theory of Fertility", con G.S. Becker, 1988, QJE.
• "The Neoclassical Approach to Fiscal Policy", 1989, in Barro, editor, Modern Business Cycle Theory.
• "The Ricardian Approach to Budget Deficits", 1989, JEP
• "Interest Rate Targeting", 1989, JME
• "The Stock Market and Investment", 1990, Review of Financial Studies
• "World Real Interest Rates", con Xavier Sala-i- Martin, 1990, NBER Macroeconomics Annual
• "Government Spending in a Simple Model of Endogenous Growth", 1990, JPE
• "Economic Growth in a Cross-Section of Countries", 1991, QJE
• "A Cross Country Study of Growth, Saving and Government", 1991, in Bernheim and Shoven, editors, National Saving and Econ Performance
• "Convergence Across States and Regions", con Xavier Sala-i- Martin, 1991, BPEA
• "Convergence", con Xavier Sala-i- Martin, 1992, JPE
• "Regional Growth and Migration", con Xavier Sala-i- Martin, 1992, J of Japanese and International Econ
• "Public Finance in Models of Economic Growth", con Xavier Sala-i- Martin, 1992, RES
• "International Comparisons of Educational Attainment", con J.W. Lee, 1993, JME
• "Sources of Economic Growth", con J.W. Lee, 1994, JME
• "The Aggregate-Supply/Aggregate-Demand Model", 1994, Eastern EJ.
• Economic Growth con Xavier Sala-i- Martin, 1995.