ROBERTO CHANG

Professor I
Department of Economics
Rutgers University
75 Hamilton Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
(732) 932 7269
chang@econ.rutgers.edu

Personal Information

•  Click here for a copy of my CV

Links to some of my recent papers

• Elections, Capital Flows, and Politico Economic Equilibria Forthcoming, American Economic Review. A simplified exposition of the interactions between elections and capital flows. 
• On the Sources of Fluctuations in Emerging Economies (with Andrés Fernández) An empirical investigation of stochastic trends versus financial frictions as explanations of emerging markets fluctuations. Revised Version, October 2009. 
• Privatization and Nationalization Cycles (with Constantino Hevia and Norman Loayza) New! We review evidence on the recurrence of nationalization and privatization, and develop a model of an  efficiency-equity tradeoff that is consistent with several of the stylized facts.
  
• Inflation Targeting, Reserves Accumulation, and Exchange Rate Management in Latin America . Prepared for the Latin American Reserves Fund.
• Openness Can be Good for Growth: The Role of Policy Complementarities. (with Linda Kaltani and Norman Loayza) Journal of Development Economics, 2009. 
• An entry on dollarization for the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition.
• Final version of  Financial Crises and Political Crises (Journal of Monetary Economics, 2007). Appendix.
• Electoral Uncertainty and the Volatility of International Capital Flows develops a theoretical model of the interactions between elections, distributional conflict, and international capital movements. This revision allows for factor rewards to be derived endogenously, and for a continuous distribution of wealth.

Econ 504: Macroeconomic Theory I
        REMINDER: The Midterm has been scheduled for October 29th.

• Syllabus
• Notes on the Solow model
• Problem Set 1
• Cheat sheet on linearization
• Problem Set 2
• Some notes on Optimal Growth (revised, 10/22/09)
• Problem Set 3
• MATLAB program to solve the stochastic optimal growth problem. (Requires Paul Klein's solab.m)
• Problem Set 4
• MATLAB program to solve Farmer's model (in Problem Set 3). (Requires Paul Klein's solab.m)

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