Stefania Albanesi, Columbia University- Research

Work in Progress

Maternal Health and the Baby Boom, with Claudia Olivetti. SLIDES Abstract May 2009

Optimal Dynamic Taxation of Efficient Households, with Nicola Pavoni

Selection and Incentives: Optimal Taxation with Occupational Choice and Private Information SLIDES July 2008

Working Papers

Understanding Capital Taxation in Ramsey Models, with Roc Armenter. December 2007. PDF

Gender and Dynamic Agency: Theory and Evidence on the Compensation of Top Executives, with Claudia Olivetti. DRAFT, SLIDES, April 2008

Submitted Papers

Gender Roles and Medical Progress, with Claudia Olivetti PDF March 2009 SLIDES NBER WP 14873

An older version of this paper appeared with the title “Gender Roles and Technological Progress.” Available here: NBER WP 13179, CEPR DP 6352

Intertemporal Distortions in the Second Best, with Roc Armenter. PDF, May 2009. SLIDES

Older version: NBER WP 13629, CEPR DP 6577

Optimal Taxation of Entrepreneurial Capital with Private Information. PDF, March 2006. NBER WP 12419

Older version: CEPR DP 5647.

Optimal and Time Consistent Monetary and Fiscal Policy with Heterogeneous Agents, PDF, March 2005.

Older version: CEPR DP 3713, January 2003.

Published and Forthcoming Articles

Home Production, Market Production and the Gender Wage Gap: Incentives and Expectations, with Claudia Olivetti. Review of Economic Dynamics 12, No. 1 (January 2009): 80–107. PDF, August 2008.

Older versions: NBER WP12212, CEPR DP 4984.

Inflation and Inequality, Journal of Monetary Economics, Volume 54:4, May 2007. PDF + Appendix, February 2006.

Longer working paper version: CEPR DP 3470, July 2002.

Dynamic Optimal Taxation with Private Information, with Chris Sleet, The Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 73, 1-30, January 2006. PDF + Supplement.

Expectation Traps and Monetary Policy, with V.V. Chari and Larry Christiano, The Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 70, 715-741, October 2003. PDF

How Severe is the Time Inconsistency Problem in Monetary Policy, with V.V. Chari and Larry Christiano, in Advances in Economic Theory and Econometrics, edited by Mathias Dewatripont, Lars P. Hansen and Stephen Turnovsky, 2002. PDF, February 2001, NBER WP 8139.

Other Publications

Redistribution and Optimal Monetary Policy: Results and Open Questions. To appear in Rivista di Politica Economica (Invited Essay). PDF, May 2008

Social Insurance. The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and Law (2nd ed.), Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence Blume (eds) , London: Palgrave MacMillan Limited, 2008. PDF

Comment on “Marriage and Divorce since WWII: Analyzing the Role of Technological Progress on the Formation of Households,” by Jeremy Greenwood and Nezih Guner. NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2008, Volume 23, edited by Daron Acemoglu, Kenneth Rogoff and Michael Woodford, MIT Press, forthcoming. PDF, August 2008. Slides

Comment on “Markets Versus Governments,” by Acemoglu, Golosov and Tsyvinski. Forthcoming, Journal of Monetary Economics. PDF October 2007. Slides

Comment on “Optimal Monetary and Fiscal Policy: A Linear Quadratic Approach,” by Pierpaolo Benigno and Michael Woodford, NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2003, Volume 18, edited by Mark Gertler and Kenneth Rogoff, MIT Press. PDF, August 2003.

Comment on "The Costs of Losing Monetary Independence: The Case of Mexico" by Thomas Cooley and Vincenzo Quadrini, joint with Lawrence J. Christiano, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, May 2001, No.2. PDF, June 2000.

Discussions

Discussion of "Gender based taxation and the division of family chores," by Alberto Alesina, Andrea Ichino and Loukas Karabarbounis. ASSA Meetings January 2009, San Francisco. Slides

Discussion of “Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy when Money is Essential” by Aruoba and Chugh, AEA Annual Meetings January 5, 2008. Slides

Discussion of “Nature or Nurture? Learning and Female Labor Force Dynamics,” by Alessandra Fogli and Laura Veldkamp. NY/Philadelphia Macroeconomics workshop, May 11, 2007. Slides.

Discussion of “Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy when Money is Essential” by Aruoba and Chugh, Philadelphia Workshop on Monetary and Macroeconomics, March 30, 2007. Slides

Discussion of “In Search of a Theory of Debt Management,” by Elisa Faraglia, Albert Marcet and Andrew Scott, 5^th Workshop of Macroeconomic Dynamics, Rome, December 2006. Slides

Discussion of “Optimality of the Friedman rule with Heterogeneous Agents and Non-Linear Income Taxes,” by Carlos da Costa and Ivan Werning, 2002 AEA Annual Meetings, Atlanta. Slides

Discussion of “Policy Interaction, Learning and the Fiscal Theory of Prices,” by Evans and Honkapojha, New Developments in Fiscal Policy Analysis Conference, May 2002, Barcelona. Slides

Editorials

Gender Roles, Technology and Papa Leave, with Claudia Olivetti. VoxEU.org, July 20, 2007. Here

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