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Richard Barnett, PhD

Clinical Professor

Economics

Headshot of Richard Barnett
Contact:
215.895.6972
rcb63@drexel.edu

Gerri C. LeBow Hall 1028

Areas of Expertise

  • Microeconomics
  • Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics
  • Political Economy
  • Economics/Managerial Economics

Selected Works

Articles

Barnett, Richard C., Bhattacharya, Joydeep, and Bunzel, Helle, The Fight-or-Flight Response to the Joneses and Inequality. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 101 (Apr 2019):187-210.

Barnett, Richard C., Bhattacharya, Joydeep, and Bunzel, Helle, Do the Joneses make you financially vulnerable?. Arthaniti: Journal of Economic Theory and Practice XV (May 2018):11-21.

Barnett, Richard C., Bhattacharya, Joydeep, and Puhakka, Mikko, Private versus public old-age security. Journal of Population Economics 31 (Jul 2018):703-46.

Barnett, Richard C., Bhattacharya, Joydeep, and Bunzel, Helle, Voting for income-immiserizing redistribution in the Meltzer-Richard model. Economic Inquiry 52 (Apr 2014):682–695.

Barnett, Richard C., Bhattacharya, Joydeep, and Puhakka, Mikko, Patience Cycles. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 169 (Jun 2013):339-354.

Barnett, Richard C., Bhattacharya, Joydeep, and Bunzel, Helle, Deviant generations, Ricardian equivalence, and growth cycles. Economic Theory 52 (Jan 2013):367-396.

Barnett, Richard C., Bhattacharya, Joydeep, and Bunzel, Helle, Choosing to keep up with the Joneses and income inequality. Economic Theory 45 (Dec 2010):469-96.

Barnett, Richard C., Bhattacharya, Joydeep, and Bunzel, Helle, Resurrecting Equilibria Through Cycles in an Overlapping Generations Model of Money.. Journal of Macroeconomics 32 (Jun 2010):515-26.

Barnett, Richard C., and Bhattacharya, Joydeep, Rejuveniles and growth. European Economic Review 52 (Aug 2008):1055-1071.

Barnett, Richard C., and Ozerturk, Saltuk, The advantage of showing your hand selectively in foreign exchange interventions. European Journal of Political Economy 23 (Mar 2007):228-44.

Barnett, Richard C., Coordinating macroeconomic policy in a simple AK growth model. Journal of Macroeconomics 27 (Dec 2005):621-647.

Barnett, Richard C., Smuggling, nonfundamental uncertainty, and parallel market exchange rate volatility. Canadian Journal of Economics 36 (Aug 2003):701-727.

Barnett, Richard C., and Fisher, Eric, Comment on: ‘Do sunspots matter when spot market equilibria are unique?. Econometrica 70 (Jan 2002):393-96.

Barnett, Richard C., and Engineer, Merwan, When is price level stability a good idea? A critical review of the literature. Price Stability and the Long-Run Target for Moneta (Mar 2001):101-52.

Barnett, Richard C., Inflation, taxes, and the coordination of monetary and fiscal policy by use of a game of chicken. Canadian Journal of Economics 34 (Feb 2001):82-99.

Barnett, Richard C., and Ho, Mun Sing, Sunspots, currency substitution, and inflationary finance. Journal of International Economics 41 (Aug 1996):78-93.

Barnett, Richard C., Speculation, incomplete currency market participation, and nonfundamental movements in nominal and real exchange rates. Journal of International Economics (Aug 1992):167-86.

Education

PhD Economics - University of Minnesota USA 1989