Norm Obst

MW 1:45-2:30p and skype

• EC 202-001 | MWF 11:30-12:20p | B115 Wells
• EC 202-002 | MWF 12:40-1:30p | B115 Wells

• Financial markets
• Monetary policy
• Local government issues

• Market Concentration, Economic Welfare, and Antitrust Policy (with J. Brock), Journal of Industry, Competition, and Trade, vol 9, 1, (2009), 65-75.

• Monetary Policy and the Equilibrium Price Level and Inflation Rate, An original chapter within a custom version of Principles of Macroeconomics by R. Frank and B. Bernanke, 2nd edition, McGraw-Hill, 2004.

• Stabilization Policy with an Inflation Adjustment Mechanism, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 92 (May 1978), 355-359, presented, analyzed, and extended, in detail, by A. C. Chiang in Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics, Third Edition (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1984), 635-646.

• Stability in Periodic Markets, The American Economic Review, 61 (September 1971), 638-648.

• A Connection Between Speculation and Stability in the Foreign Exchange Market, The Southern Economic Journal, 34 (July 1967), 146-149.

Please see the faculty member's web site for a copy of the paper in pdf format.

• Will Economists Get It So Wrong Again

• Unreasonable Rigidity and Government

• On Measuring Systemic Risk

• On Financial Decision-Making When Anxiety Dominates