Geoffrey Woglom
Curriculum Vitae
Sabbatical Field Work
Geoffrey Woglom
Curriculum Vitae
Sabbatical Field Work
Address:
Department of Economic
Amherst College
Amherst
MA 010002
E-mail: grwoglom@amherst.edu
Telephone:
413-542-2433
(office)
413-256-4276
(home)
413-256-2090
(fax)
Date of Birth: September 25, 1946
Citizenship: U.S.A.
Fields of Specialization:
Macroeconomics,
Monetary Economics
Degrees: B.A. (1968), M.Phil. (1970) Ph.D. (1974): Yale University
Positions:
2000-present Richard S. Volpert Professor of Economics
1984-2000, Professor
1985-1987, 2000-2002, Chair of the Economics Department
1978-1984, Associate Professor
Department of Economics Amherst College
2003, Visiting Senior Economic Advisor, Economic Policy Research Institute
1999,
Fullbright Scholar, University of the Western Cape
Cape
Town, South Africa
1995
Visting Pamplin Professor of Economics,
Lewis
and Clark College, Portland Oregon.
1993-1994,
Visiting Professor, Department of Economics,
Harvard
University
1991-1992,
Visiting Lecturer, Faculty of Economics,
University
of Cambridge;
Visiting
Scholar, Pembroke College, Cambridge
1988-1993
(summers), Visiting Scholar, International Monetary
Fund (summers)
1984-1985,
Academic Visitor, Centre for Labour Economics,
London
School of Economics and Political Science
1972-1978,
Instructor, Assistant Professor,
Department
of Economics, Boston College
(Promoted
to Associate Professor with tenure in 1978)
1977-1978,
Financial Economist,
Federal
Reserve Bank of Boston
1976-1977,
Visiting Economist, Banking Section,
Board
of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Publications:
"Government Investment Decisions and Institutional Constraints on Income Redistribution," Journal of Public Economics, 3, (1974). (with Robert Goldfarb)
"Search Models of the Labor Market and the Long-Run Phillips Curve," Southern Economics Journal, October 1975.
"On Two Specifications of Asset Equilibrium in Macroeconomic Models: A Note," Journal of Political Economy, April 1977.(with Willem Buiter)
"Two-Sector Aggregative Models and the Investment Demand Function,"
American Economic Review, September 1977.
"The NOW Account Experiment in 1976," Special Report, Federal
Reserve Bank of Boston, 1978.
"Savings Banks Reactions to Rate Ceilings and Rising Market Rates,"
New England Economic Review, Sept/Oct 1978.(with Robert A. Taggart,Jr.)
"First Round 'Crowding Out' in a Generalized
IS-LM Model," Journal of Macroeconomics, Winter 1979.
"Rational Expectations and Monetary Policy in a Simple Macroeconomic
Model," Quarterly Journal of Economics, February
1979.
"Regulation Q and Savings Bank Solvency -
The Connecticut Experience," in the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston,
The Regulation of Financial Institutions, Conference Series No.
21, October 1979. (with Richard Kopcke)
"Are Period Models Well Defined?," Journal of Macroeconomics,
Fall 1980.
"A Reexamination of the Role of Stocks in the Consumption Function
and the Transmission Mechanism," Journal of Money, Credit and
Banking, May 1981.
"Underemployment Equilibria and Rational Expectations," Quarterly
Journal of Economics, February 1982.
"Capital Formation and Demographics," Journal of Macroeconomics,
Summer 1982.
"Estimating Models with Rational Expectations," Journal
of Money, Credit, and Banking, August 1983. (with Roger Kaufman)
"The Effects of Expectations on Union Wages," American
Economic Review, June 1984. (with Roger Kaufman)
"The Degree of Indexation in Major U.S. Union
Contracts," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, April
1986. (with Roger Kaufman)
"The Conformity of Wage-Indexation Models
with 'Stylized Facts'," American Economic Review, September
1987. (with Roger Kaufman)
"Indicators of Structural Policies and Performance,"
Staff Studies for the World Economic Outlook, International Monetary
Fund, August 1989. (with Michael Wattleworth)
"Structural Reform and Macroeconomic Adjustment
in Industrial Countries," Staff Studies for the World Economic
Outlook, International Monetary Fund, August 1989. (with
T. Bayoumi, R. Feldman and M. Wattleworth)
"The Role of National Saving in the World
Economy: Recent Trends and Prospects," Occasional Paper
no. 67, International Monetary Fund, March 1990. (with B. Aghevli,
J. Boughton, P. Monteil, and D. Villanueva)
"Systematic Risk and the Theory of Wage Indexation,"
Journal of Business, April 1990.
"Nominal Disturbances, Wage Flexibility and Shifting Resources
in a Two Sector Economy," Economic Journal, September 1991.
"Market-Based Fiscal Discipline in Monetary Unions: Evidence from
the U.S. Municipal Bond Market," in M. Canzoneri, V. Grilli, and
P. Masson, eds., Establishing a Central Bank, Cambridge University
Press, May 1992. (with Morris Goldstein)
"Inflation and the Fair Evaluation of Pension
Benefits as Marital Assets," The Massachusetts Family Law Journal,
July 1992.
"Deferred Distributions of Pension Benefits in Massachusetts
Divorce Cases: Current Ambiguities and Unrealized Opportunities,"
The Massachusetts Family Law Journal, September 1994 (with Susan
Woglom)
"Do Credit Markets Discipline Sovereign Borrowers?
Evidencefrom U.S. States," Journal of Money, Credit,
and Banking, November 1995 (with T. Bayoumi and M. Goldstein)
"Risk Aversion and the Allocation of Legal Costs," in D. A.
Anderson, ed., Dispute Resolution: Bridging the Settlement Gap,
JAI Press Inc., 1996 (with James
Hughes)
“SA Not a Good Candidate for an Inflation Target,” Financial Mail , August 27, 1999
Recent Working Papers:
"Forecasting South African Inflation"
“Increasing Competition and Higher Education Finance," (with Roger Kaufman)
Books: Modern Macroeconomics,
Scott, Foresman and Co., 1988
Committee Membership:
Committee of College Faculty and Co-author of that committee's report: H. Kasper et. al., "The Education of Economists: From Undergraduate to Graduate Study," Journal of Economic Literature, September 1991.