Willem Buiter

Book Reviews, Comments and Discussions

  1. "Central Banks as Economic Institutions: A Roundtable Debate." Central Banks as Economic Institutions. Cournot Centre for Economic Studies, Saint-Gobain Group, Paris, 30 November and 1 December. 2006.

  2. *"Comment on 'Regional banks and Regionalism: A New Frontier for Development Financing' by Robert Devlin and Lucio Castro." In Nancy Birdsall and Liliana Rojas-Suarez, eds. Financing Development, the Power of Regionalism. Washington, D.C. Center for Global Development, September 2004, pp. 91–95.

  3. "Comment on 'Sovereign Bond Restructuring: Collective Action Clauses and Official Crisis Intervention by Kenneth M. Kletzer." In Andrew G. Haldane, ed. Fixing Financial Crises in the Twenty-first Century. London: Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking, 2004, pp. 254–7. Working Paper.

  4. "Discussion of 'Macroeconomic Adjustment to Structural Change' by Gabriel Fagan, Vitor Gaspar and Alfredo Pereira." György Szapáry, ed. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2003.

  5. "Comment on 'Current Account Deficits in the Euro Area: The End of the Feldstein Horioka Puzzle?' by Olivier Blanchard and Francesco Giavazzi." Brooking Papers on Economic Activity (2002), II: 187–96.

  6. *"Discussion of 'ERM Bandwiths for EMU and After: Evidence From Foreign Exchange Options' by Jose M. Campa, P.H. Kevin Chang and Robert L. Leider." Economic Policy, vol. 24 (April 1997): 81–83.

  7. *"Comment on 'Is Growth in Developing Countries Beneficial to Developed Countries?' by Richard N. Cooper." Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics, Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 1995, pp. 276–83.

  8. *"Comment on 'The Collapse of the Bretton Woods Fixed Exchange Rate Regime' by Peter Garbo." In. Michael D. Bordo and Barry Eichengreen, eds. A Retrospective on the Bretton Woods System. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 485–93.

  9. *"Comment on 'Growth, External Debt and the Real Exchange rate' by Sweder van Wijnbergen." Mexico's Search for a New Development Strategy. Westview Press, 1990, pp. 244–50.

  10. *"Comment on J.A. Frenkel, A. Razin and S. Symansky, 'International Spillovers of Taxation'." In. J. Slemrod, ed. International Aspects of Taxation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.

  11. *"Comment on 'Macroeconomic Modelling for Economic Policy' by J.C. Siebrand." In W. Driehuis, M.M.G. Fase and H. Den Hartog, eds. Challenges for Macroeconomic Modelling. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1988, pp. 137-145.

  12. *"Comment on 'Sterling Misalignment and British Trade Performance' by Charles R. Bean." Misalignment of Exchange Rates: Effects on Trade and Industry. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988, pp. 69–75.

  13. *"Comment on 'External Borrowing by LDCs: A Survey of Theoretical Issues' by K. Kletzer." In G. Ranis and T. Paul Schultz, eds. The State of Development Economics. Basil Blackwell, 1988, pp. G13-G16.

  14. *"Comment on Rubinstein and Fershtman." In R.C. Bryant and R. Portes, eds Global Macroeconomics. Macmillan Press, 1987, pp. 66-72.

  15. *"Comment on 'Fiscal Policy and European Economic Growth' by Paul H. Courant." In R.Z. Lawrence and C.L. Schultze, eds. Barriers to European Growth, A Transatlantic View. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1987, pp. 492–501.

  16. *"Comment on 'An Empirical Investigation of the Long-Run Behavior of Real Exchange Rates' by Huizinga." Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, vol. 27 (Autumn 1987): 215–23.

  17. *"Comment on 'The Role of Reserves in the International Monetary System' by M. P. Dooley." In M. Posner, ed. Problems of International Money, 1972-85. Washington, D.C.: International Monetary Fund, 1986, pp. 109–12.

  18. *"Comment on 'Real Exchange Rates in the 1970s' by L. Katseli." In J.F.O. Bilson and R.C. Marston, eds. Exchange Rate Theory and Practice. NBER. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984, pp. 321–30.

  19. "Comment on 'Some Unpleasant Monetarist Arithmetic' by T. J. Sargent and N. Wallace." In B. Griffiths and G.E. Wood, eds. Monetarism in the United Kingdom. London: Macmillan, 1984, pp. 42-60. Working paper.

  20. *"Comment on 'Exchange Rate Policy After a Decade of Floating' by W. H. Branson." In J.F.O. Bilson and R.C. Marston, eds. Exchange Rate Theory and Practice. NBER. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984, pp. 108–12.

  21. *"Review of 'Rational Expectations and Econometric Practice' by R. E. Lucas and T. J. Sargent." Economic Journal ( June 1983): 442–5.

  22. *"Discussion of 'Flexible Exchange Rates and Interdependence' by R. Dornbusch." International Monetary Fund Staff Papers (30 March 1983): 35-38.

  23. *"Comment on 'The Real Wage Gap and Employment' by Paul Krugman." Annales de l'INS?E, vols. 47-48 (July–December 1982): 71–80.

  24. *"Discussion of 'Macroeconomic Policy and the Government Financing Requirement: A Survey of Recent Developments' by David Currie." In Michael Artis and R. Nobay, eds Studies in Contemporary Economic Analysis. Vol. 1. London: Croon Helm, 1978.

  25. *"Review of 'The Monetary Approach to the Balance of Payments: A Collection of Rresearch Papers by Members of the International Monetary Fund'." De Economist, vol. 126, no. 3 (1978): 418–22.

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