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Lawrence Christiano

Professor of Economics · Northwestern University

Professor of economics at Northwestern University, holding the Alfred W. Chase Chair in Business Institutions. His stated fields are macroeconomics, macro/finance and applied time series analysis.

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Published Classic Journal of Political Economy Published Feb 2011

When Is the Government Spending Multiplier Large?

Lawrence Christiano · Martin Eichenbaum · Sergio Rebelo

The government-spending multiplier can be much larger than one when the zero lower bound on the nominal interest rate binds, and the larger the fraction of the spending that occurs while the nominal …

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Career

2016 – 2018 Chairman, Department of Economics, Northwestern University
1992 – present Professor of Economics, Northwestern University
1991 – 1992 Director, Institute for Empirical Macroeconomics, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
1985 – 1992 Economist, Senior Economist, Research Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
1984 – 1985 Visiting Assistant Professor, Carnegie-Mellon University
1981 – 1985 Assistant Professor of Business Economics, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business

Editorial roles

Associate Editor Journal of Money, Credit and Banking2003–2010
Associate Editor Macroeconomic Dynamics1996–2002
Associate Editor Review of Economic Dynamics1996–2007
Associate Editor Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control1995–2005
Associate Editor Journal of Business and Economic Statistics1994–2007
Associate Editor Journal of Economic Theory2000–2006
Associate Editor International Economic Review1997–1999
Associate Editor American Economic Review1992–1995
Associate Editor Review of Economics and Statistics1993–1996

Research topics

Effective Lower Bound Fiscal Monetary Interactions Dsge Models

Co-authors in the warehouse

Martin Eichenbaum Sergio Rebelo

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