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.
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Working Paper 709 (March 2014)Randall Wright and Alberto TrejosPublished in: _Journal of Economic Theory_ (Vol. 164, July 2016, pp. 10-31), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jet.2014.11.005.
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Working Paper 688 (October 2011)Randall Wright, Jonathan Chiu, and Cesaire MehPublished in: _International Economic Review_ (Vol. 58, No. 1, February 2017, pp. 95-125), https://doi.org/10.1111/iere.12210.
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Working Paper 690 (October 2011)Randall Wright, Allen Head, Lucy Qian Liu, and Guido Menzio
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Working Paper 689 (October 2011)Randall Wright and Chao Gu
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Working Paper 691 (October 2011)Randall Wright and Yuet-Yee Wong
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Staff Report 443 (April 2010)Randall Wright and Stephen D. Williamson
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Staff Report 442 (April 2010)Randall Wright and Stephen D. WilliamsonPublished 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.
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Quarterly Review 2911 | October 2005 (Vol. 29 No. 1)Randall WrightReprinted, 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
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Staff Report 346 (September 2004)Ricardo Lagos and Randall WrightPublished in: _Journal of Political Economy_ (Vol. 113, No. 3, June 2005, pp. 463-484) https://doi.org/10.1086/429804.
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Staff Report 215 (July 1997)Warren E. Weber, François R. Velde, and Randall WrightPublished in: _Review of Economic Dynamics_ (Vol. 2, No. 1, January 1999, pp. 291-323) https://doi.org/10.1006/redy.1998.0037.
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Working Paper 550 (April 1996)Neil Wallace, Randall Wright, and S. Rao AiyagariPublished in: _Journal of Monetary Economics_ (Vol. 37, No. 3, June 1996, pp. 397-419), https://doi.org/10.1016/0304-3932(96)01260-3.
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Staff Report 191 (May 1995)Ellen R. McGrattan, Randall Wright, and Richard RogersonPublished in: _International Economic Review_ (Vol 38, Num 2, May 1997, pp. 267-290) https://doi.org/10.2307/2527375. [Additional Files](https://researchdatabase.minneapolisfed.org/concern/datasets/j098zb128?locale=en) [M-files and Ftools](https://researchdatabase.minneapolisfed.org/concern/datasets/765371353?locale=en)
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Staff Report 186 (December 1994)Peter Rupert, Randall Wright, and Richard RogersonPublished in: _Economic Theory_ (Vol. 6, No. 1, June 1995, pp. 179-193) https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01213946.
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Staff Report 172 (June 1994)Melvyn Coles and Randall Wright
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Staff Report 169 (April 1994)Kenneth Burdett and Randall Wright
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Staff Report 166 (December 1993)Ellen R. McGrattan, Randall Wright, and Richard Rogerson
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Working Paper 521 (October 1993)Ellen R. McGrattan, Randall Wright, and Richard RogersonPublished in _International Economic Review_ (Vol. 38, No. 2, May 1997, pp. 267-290), https://doi.org/10.2307/2527375.
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Quarterly Review 1731 | Summer 1993 (Vol. 17 No. 3)Jeremy Greenwood, Randall Wright, and Richard RogersonThis 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.
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Quarterly Review 1632 | Summer 1992 (Vol. 16 No. 3)Nobuhiro Kiyotaki and Randall WrightThis 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.
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Quarterly Review 1621 | Spring 1992 (Vol. 16 No. 2)Gary D. Hansen and Randall WrightPublished In: _Real Business Cycles: A Reader_ (1998, pp. 168-178)
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Quarterly Review 1532 | Summer 1991 (Vol. 15 No. 3)Randall WrightThis 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.
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Staff Report 141 (June 1991)Randall Wright and Stephen D. WilliamsonPublished in: _The American Economic Review_ (Vol. 84, No. 1, March 1994, pp. 104-123)
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Staff Report 140 (May 1991)Timothy J. Kehoe, Nobuhiro Kiyotaki, and Randall WrightPublished in: _Economic Theory_ (Vol. 3, No. 2, April 1993, pp. 297-314) https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01212919.
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Staff Report 139 (April 1991)Eric Smith and Randall WrightPublished in: _American Economic Review_ (Vol. 82, No. 4, September 1992, pp. 757-772)
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Staff Report 134 (February 1991)Randall Wright
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Staff Report 135 (January 1991)Jess Benhabib, Randall Wright, and Richard RogersonPublished 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)
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Staff Report 131 (January 1991)Ed Nosal, Randall Wright, and Richard Rogerson
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Staff Report 133 (January 1991)Karl Shell and Randall WrightPublished in: _Economic Theory_ (Vol. 3, Issue 1, March 1993, pp. 1-17) https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01213688.
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Working Paper 464 (September 1990)Randall Wright and Nobuhiro KiyotakiPublished in _The American Economic Review_ (Vol. 83, No. 1, March 1993, pp. 63-77), https://www.jstor.org/stable/2117496.
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Staff Report 123 (August 1989)Nobuhiro Kiyotaki and Randall WrightPublished in: _Journal of Economic Theory_ (Vol. 53, No. 2, April 1991, pp. 215-235) https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-0531(91)90154-V.