Associate Professor
Department of Economics
Phone: (909) 607-0720
Fax: (909) 621-8249
Email: luisa.lambertini@cmc.edu
Publications
· Are Budget Deficits Used Strategically? Accepted subject to an editorial revision at Economics & Politics
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· Interactions of Commitment and Discretion in Monetary and Fiscal Policies, with Avinash Dixit, American Economic Review, Vol. 93, No. 5, 1522-42, December 2003
· Monetary-Fiscal Interactions with a Conservative Central Bank,'' Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 53, No. 1, 90-128, February 2006
·
Exchange Rates
and Fiscal Adjustments: Evidence from the OECD and Implications for EMU,
with Jose' Tavares, Contributions to
Macroeconomics, Vol. 5: No. 1, Article 11,
· Endogenous Debt Constraints in Lifecycle Economies, with Costas Azariadis, Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 70, No. 3, 1-27
· Symbiosis of Monetary and Fiscal Policies in a Monetary Union, with Avinash Dixit, Journal of International Economics, Vol. 60, Issue 2, Pages 235-247 (lead article)
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Appendix A
(Microfounded model)
· The Fiscal Politics of Big Governments: Do Coalitions Matter? (with Costas Azariadis) in Economics for an Imperfect World: Essays in Honor of Joseph Stiglitz, MIT Press, 2003.
· Excess Asset Returns and Limited Enforcement, with Costas Azariadis, American Economic Review, Vol. 92, No. 2, 135-140, May 2002
· Monetary-Fiscal Policy Interactions and Commitment Versus Discretion in a Monetary Union, with Avinash Dixit, European Economic Review, Vol. 45, No. 4-6, 977-987. January 2001
· The Redistributive Property of Budget Deficits, in Institution, Politics and Fiscal Policy, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000
· Inflation Convergence with Realignments in a Two-Speed Europe, Economic Journal, Vol. 102, March 1992
Working Papers
·
Optimal
Fiscal Policy in a Monetary Union, Working paper, September 2006
· Fiscal Coordination in a Monetary Union, Working paper, May 2004
· Volatility and Sovereign Default, October 2001
· Technological Change and Public Financing of Education, November 2001
· Fiscal Discretion Destroys Monetary Commitment, with Avinash Dixit, August 2, 2000 (old version)
· Fiscal Incentives and Industrial Agglomeration, with Giovanni Peri, IGIER Working paper n. 157, April 25, 2001
Others
· Slides of my discussion of Corsetti and Pesenti: ``International Dimensions of Optimal Monetary Policy,'' NBER IFM Summer Meeting, 2001
Conferences
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