Mark Gertler

Luca Gagliardone · Mark Gertler

Gagliardone and Gertler ask why the US inflation surge that began in mid-2021 was both sudden and persistent, and whether a simple structural model can account for it without targeting inflation in …

Luca Gagliardone · Mark Gertler · Simone Lenzu · Joris Tielens

This paper addresses a fundamental puzzle in macroeconomics: why do estimates of the New Keynesian Phillips curve (NKPC) slope differ sharply depending on whether real marginal cost or the output gap …

Ben S. Bernanke · Mark Gertler · Simon Gilchrist

Embedding a costly-state-verification debt contract -- in which a borrower's external finance premium depends inversely on net worth -- into an otherwise standard New Keynesian model, this chapter …

Ben S. Bernanke · Mark Gertler

Bernanke and Gertler build a general-equilibrium model in which entrepreneurs must borrow to fund investment projects, know more than their lenders about the project's chance of success, and can be …

Ben S. Bernanke · Mark Gertler

This 1995 Journal of Economic Perspectives paper by Ben Bernanke and Mark Gertler surveys the "credit channel" of monetary policy transmission — described explicitly as an amplifying mechanism, not an …

Richard Clarida · Jordi Galí · Mark Gertler

Estimating a forward-looking Federal Reserve policy rule separately for 1960-79 and 1979-96, this paper finds that the Fed let real short-term rates fall as expected inflation rose before Volcker, but …

Mark Gertler · Peter Karadi

This 2015 American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics paper by Mark Gertler and Peter Karadi uses a "proxy SVAR" — a structural VAR identified with external instruments rather than timing restrictions — …

Mark Gertler · Simon Gilchrist

This 1994 Quarterly Journal of Economics paper by Mark Gertler and Simon Gilchrist asks whether small manufacturing firms bear a disproportionate share of the manufacturing decline that follows …

Mark Gertler · Kenneth Rogoff

This 1990 Journal of Monetary Economics paper by Mark Gertler and Kenneth Rogoff builds a model of North-South lending in which information asymmetries between individual borrowers and world capital …

Mark Gertler · Christopher Huckfeldt · Antonella Trigari

This paper measures and models the role of temporary layoffs (TL) in cyclical unemployment dynamics, motivating the analysis by the extraordinary surge in temporary layoffs at the onset of the …

Richard Clarida · Jordi Galí · Mark Gertler

This widely cited survey derives monetary policy design from a simple forward-looking New Keynesian model, showing that optimal policy without commitment requires raising the nominal rate more than …