elsa.berkeley.edu - 11/24/2008
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The FOMC versus the Staff: Where Can Monetary Policymakers Add Value? [PDF], with David Romer, American Economic Review, May 2008. Posted with the permission of the American Economic Association. Was the Federal Reserve Constrained by the Gold Standard During the Great Depression? Evidence from ...
Bruce Bartlett: The Contrast Between Bush-Cheney and Obama-Biden
delong.typepad.com 11/24/2008 — Bruce writes:
The Arena : So far, I am very impressed. Larry Summers at the NEC is brilliant. Tim Geithner at Treasury inspires confidence. Peter Orszag at OMB tells me that we will get honest numbers on which to base policy for a change. And ...
In Which I Am Amused —
RedState: Conservative News and Community
Consider the following commentary concerning the incoming Chair
of the Council of Economic Advisers, Christina
Romer :
She burst into the economic scene with her doctoral dissertation
that fundamentally changed how economists viewed the Great
Depression.
Economics data indicated that ...
Romer's role —
Ben Smith's Blog
The role of the third-ranking, and lowest-profile, economic official in the Obama White House, Christina Romer, wasn't totally clear to the layman yesterday, but Time's Justin Fox has a helpful interpretation:
As for Christina Romer as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, the ...
Questions —
Matthew Yglesias
I’d like to echo Kevin Drum’s questions about incoming CEA Chair Christina Romer’s paper on “The Macroeconomic Effects of Tax Changes: Estimates Based on a New Measure of Fiscal Shocks” .
Kevin Drum asks the Romers some questions —
Angry Bear
Robert Waldmann Tries to answer. Drum summarizes better than Waldmann Last year Christina and David Romer wrote a paper that attempted to quantify the effect of tax changes on economic growth. I read it at the time and didn't understand it. I read it again a few minutes ago and I still don't ...
Getting to Know Christina Romer —
The Stump
NAME: Christina
Romer
AGE:
49
NEW APPOINTMENT:
Chair of the president's Council of Economic Advisers.
HOW SHE KNOWS
OBAMA: Economic adviser to the campaign.
OTHER TOP
POSITIONS: Professor of economics at Berkeley; former vice
president of the American Economic Association; ...
Bartlett: Bush Appointees Suck Really Hard —
Matthew Yglesias
Bruce Bartlett’s view of the Obama economic team :
So far, I am very impressed. Larry Summers at the NEC is brilliant. Tim Geithner at Treasury inspires confidence. Peter Orszag at OMB tells me that we will get honest numbers on which to base policy for a change. And Christina Romer ...
Christina Romer, Tax Cutter? —
Ross Douthat
Of the three big economic-team appointees Obama announced today, Christina Romer is the most obscure; she's also, as Mankiw , Wilkinson and Pethokoukis point out, the one who should give Americans the most hope that Obama won't be significantly hiking their taxes any time soon.
Obama rolls out economic team —
BlueOregon
This morning, President-elect Barack Obama announced his first appointments: Tim Geithner as Treasury Secretary, Larry Summers as Director of the National Economic Council, Christina Romer as Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors; and Melody Barnes as Director of the Domestic Policy ...
Obama Names a Woman, Christina Romer for CEA Chair —
Tennessee Guerilla Women
Today President-Elect Obama named professor of Economics at UC Berkeley, Christina Romer as chair of the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA): Mr. Obama had long been expected to name the chief economics adviser to his campaign, economist Austan Goolsbee of the University of Chicago, to be ...
Talking With The Romers —
Open Left - Front Page
If you are looking for more information on Christina Romer, the newly appointed head of the Council of Economic Advisors , I would recommend an interview she jointly conducted with her husband back in late June . It is accessible to non-economics academics, while still being lengthy enough to ...
Geithner: too good for Treasury —
Megan McArdle
Obama has named his economics team. Marquee names: Christina Romer at the CEA, Larry Summers to head the NEC, and Tim Geithner of the New York Fed for Treasury Secretary. All of these people are sterling choices . . . except for Geithner. And Geithner is wrong not because he ...
The Good News and the Bad News —
Shakesville
The Good News : ABC News has learned that President-elect Obama had tapped University of California -Berkeley economics professor Christina Romer to be the chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, an office within the Executive Office of the President. Romer, a widely respected economist with ...
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