Randall Wright
Randall Wright is currently the Ray Zeeman Professor of Liquid Assets at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Since 1991 he has been an associate and co-organizer of the Macro Perspectives Group for the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Randy received his B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Manitoba and the University of Minnesota, respectively. He also holds an honorary M.A. degree from the University of Pennsylvania. The primary focus of his research is monetary theory and policy, as well as labor economics, often using search theory.
His work has appeared in many prestigious publications, such as the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Monetary Economics, and the American Economic Review. He has also served, in various capacities, on the editorial boards of a number of prominent economics journals.
Content by Randall
- Working Paper 709 (March 2014)Randall Wright and Alberto Trejos
Published in: Journal of Economic Theory (Vol. 164, July 2016, pp. 10-31), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jet.2014.11.005.
- Working Paper 689 (October 2011)Randall Wright and Chao Gu
- Working Paper 691 (October 2011)Randall Wright and Yuet-Yee Wong
- Working Paper 688 (October 2011)Randall Wright, Jonathan Chiu, and Cesaire Meh
Published in: International Economic Review (Vol. 58, No. 1, February 2017, pp. 95-125), https://doi.org/10.1111/iere.12210.
- Working Paper 690 (October 2011)Randall Wright, Allen Head, Lucy Qian Liu, and Guido Menzio
- Staff Report 442 (April 2010)Randall Wright and Stephen D. Williamson
Published in: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review (Vol. 92, No. 4, July-August 2010, pp. 265-302) https://doi.org/10.20955/r.92.265-302.
- Staff Report 443 (April 2010)Randall Wright and Stephen D. Williamson
- Quarterly Review 2911 | October 2005 (Vol. 29 No. 1)Randall Wright
Reprinted, with permission, from the International Economic Review (May 2005, vol. 46, no. 2, pp. 305–16): “Introduction to ‘Models of Monetary Economies II: The Next Generation’” by Randall Wright. © 2005 by Blackwell Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2354.2005.00319.x
- Staff Report 346 (September 2004)Ricardo Lagos and Randall Wright
Published in: Journal of Political Economy (Vol. 113, No. 3, June 2005, pp. 463-484) https://doi.org/10.1086/429804.
- Staff Report 215 (July 1997)Warren E. Weber, François R. Velde, and Randall Wright
Published in: Review of Economic Dynamics (Vol. 2, No. 1, January 1999, pp. 291-323) https://doi.org/10.1006/redy.1998.0037.
- Working Paper 550 (April 1996)Neil Wallace, Randall Wright, and S. Rao Aiyagari
Published in: Journal of Monetary Economics (Vol. 37, No. 3, June 1996, pp. 397-419), https://doi.org/10.1016/0304-3932(96)01260-3.
- Staff Report 191 (May 1995)Ellen R. McGrattan, Randall Wright, and Richard Rogerson
Published in: International Economic Review (Vol 38, Num 2, May 1997, pp. 267-290) https://doi.org/10.2307/2527375.
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- Staff Report 186 (December 1994)Peter Rupert, Randall Wright, and Richard Rogerson
Published in: Economic Theory (Vol. 6, No. 1, June 1995, pp. 179-193) https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01213946.
- Staff Report 172 (June 1994)Melvyn Coles and Randall Wright
- Staff Report 169 (April 1994)Kenneth Burdett and Randall Wright
- Staff Report 166 (December 1993)Ellen R. McGrattan, Randall Wright, and Richard Rogerson
- Working Paper 521 (October 1993)Ellen R. McGrattan, Randall Wright, and Richard Rogerson
Published in International Economic Review (Vol. 38, No. 2, May 1997, pp. 267-290), https://doi.org/10.2307/2527375.
- Quarterly Review 1731 | Summer 1993 (Vol. 17 No. 3)Jeremy Greenwood, Randall Wright, and Richard Rogerson
This is a summary of a chapter prepared for a book, Frontiers of Business Cycle Research, edited by Thomas F. Cooley, to be published by Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ.). The article appears here with the permission of Princeton University Press.
- Quarterly Review 1632 | Summer 1992 (Vol. 16 No. 3)Nobuhiro Kiyotaki and Randall Wright
This essay is reprinted, with the publishers' permission, from The New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance, ed. Peter Newman, Murray Milgate, and John Eatwell; London: Macmillan Press, New York: Stockton Press. © Macmillan Press 1992.
- Quarterly Review 1621 | Spring 1992 (Vol. 16 No. 2)Gary D. Hansen and Randall Wright
Published In: Real Business Cycles: A Reader (1998, pp. 168-178)
Published In: The Rational Expectations Revolution: Readings from the Front Line (1994, pp. 335-353) - Quarterly Review 1532 | Summer 1991 (Vol. 15 No. 3)Randall Wright
This paper includes excerpts from a paper published in the Journal of Political Economy (December 1989, vol. 97, no. 6, pp. 1479-1496): "Unemployment Insurance and Short-Term Compensation: The Effects of Layoffs, Hours per Worker, and Wages" by Kenneth Burdett and Randall Wright. The excerpts appear here with the permission of the University of Chicago. All rights reserved.
- Staff Report 141 (June 1991)Randall Wright and Stephen D. Williamson
Published in: The American Economic Review (Vol. 84, No. 1, March 1994, pp. 104-123)
- Staff Report 140 (May 1991)Timothy J. Kehoe, Nobuhiro Kiyotaki, and Randall Wright
Published in: Economic Theory (Vol. 3, No. 2, April 1993, pp. 297-314) https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01212919.
- Staff Report 139 (April 1991)Eric Smith and Randall Wright
Published in: American Economic Review (Vol. 82, No. 4, September 1992, pp. 757-772)
- Staff Report 134 (February 1991)Randall Wright
- Staff Report 133 (January 1991)Karl Shell and Randall Wright
Published in: Economic Theory (Vol. 3, Issue 1, March 1993, pp. 1-17) https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01213688.
- Staff Report 135 (January 1991)Jess Benhabib, Randall Wright, and Richard Rogerson
Published in: Journal of Political Economy (Vol. 99, No. 6, December 1991, pp. 1166-1187) https://doi.org/10.1086/261796.
Published in: Business cycle theory (1995, pp. 473-494)
- Staff Report 131 (January 1991)Ed Nosal, Randall Wright, and Richard Rogerson
- Working Paper 464 (September 1990)Randall Wright and Nobuhiro Kiyotaki
Published in The American Economic Review (Vol. 83, No. 1, March 1993, pp. 63-77), https://www.jstor.org/stable/2117496.
- Staff Report 123 (August 1989)Nobuhiro Kiyotaki and Randall Wright
Published in: Journal of Economic Theory (Vol. 53, No. 2, April 1991, pp. 215-235) https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-0531(91)90154-V.