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Sharon Harrison
Associate Professor of Economics
Sharon Harrison, associate professor of economics, joined the Barnard faculty in 1997. Professor Harrison's teaching specialties include macroeconomics, statistics, and econometrics.
At Barnard, she teaches such courses as "First Year Seminar: Chaos, Intermediate Macroeconomics, and Business Cycles."
Professor Harrison's research interests include applied econometrics, business cycle theory, and indeterminacy and sunspots in macroeconomics.
Selected Publications
"Useful Government Spending and Macroeconomic (In)stability Under Balanced Budget Rules" (with J-T Guo), Journal of Public Economic Theory, Forthcoming
"Asset Pricing in Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Models with Indeterminacy" (with N. Gershun), Macroeconomic Dynamics 12 (2008)
"Government Size and Macroeconomic Stability: A Comment" (with J-T Guo), European Economic Review 50 (2006)
"Did Sunspot Forces Cause the Great Depression?" (with M. Weder), Journal of Monetary Economics 53 (2006)
"Do Sunspots Reflect Consumer Confidence? An Empirical Investigation," Eastern Economic Journal 31 (2005)
"Balanced Budget Rules and Macroeconomic (In)stability" (with J-T Guo), Journal of Economic Theory 119 (2004)
"Returns to Scale and Externalities in the Consumption and Investment Sectors," Review of Economic Dynamics 6 (2003)
"Tracing Externalities as Sources of Indeterminacy" (with M. Weder), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 26 (2001)
"Indeterminacy with Capital Utilization and Sector- Specific Externalities" (with J-T Guo), Economics Letters 72 (2001)
"Indeterminacy in a Model with Sector-Specific Externalities," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 25 (2001)
"Tax Policy and Stability in a Model with Sector- Specific Externalities" (with J-T Guo), Review of Economic Dynamics 4 2001
"Indeterminacy in a Model with Aggregate and Sector-Specific Externalities" (with M. Weder), Economics Letters 69 (2000)
"Chaos, Sunspots and Automatic Stabilizers" (with L. J. Christiano), Journal of Monetary Economics 44 (1999)
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EDUCATION:
B.S. Tufts University
M.A., Ph.D., Northwestern University
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SPECIALIZATIONS:
Macroeconomics
Business cycle theory
Indeterminacy and sunspots in macroeconomics