Professor Michelle Alexopoulos Department of Economics University of Toronto 150 St. George Street Toronto, ON M5S 3G7 CANADA phone: (416) 978-4962 fax: (416) 978-6713 e-mail: malex@chass.utoronto.ca

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Research on Business Cycles

Publications

• Unemployment in a Monetary Business Cycle Model, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 31(12) (2007), 3904-3940
• Shirking in a Monetary Business Cycle Model, Canadian Journal of Economics 39 (2006), 689-718.
• Unemployment and the business cycle, Journal of Monetary Economics 51 (2004), 277-298
• The Effects of Shocks in a Monetary Business Cycle Model with Unemployment, in Price Adjustment and Monetary Policy, Conference Proceedings, Bank of Canada, (2003)105-148.
• Extra! Extra! Some positive technology shocks are expansionary!, Economics Letters 101(3) (2008), 153-156.
• Read all about it!! What Happens following a technology shock?, forthcoming American Economic Review
• Measuring our ignorance, one book at a time: New indicators of technological change, 1909-1949, with J. Cohen Journal of Monetary Economics 56(4) (2009), 450-470.

working paper version found here. Formerly titled “Believe it or Not!! The 1930s was a technologically progressive decade”

Current Working Papers

• Management Matters with T. Tombe supplemental materials available here
• The Media is the measure: Technical change and employment, 1909-49, with J. Cohen
• Uncertain Times, Uncertain Measures, with J. Cohen

Work in Progress

• The Power of Print
• One Shock, Two Shocks, Three Shocks, Four … [abstract]