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Department of Economics

 

 

 

 

 

Ruilin Zhou

Associate Professor of Economics

Joined the faculty in 2003    

Ph.D.,  1993,

 University of Pittsburgh   

521 Kern Graduate Building

Phone: (814) 865-2234

Fax: (814) 863 - 4775

E-mail: rzhou@psu.edu

Office Hours for Fall 2008: by appointment

Curriculum Vitae  

Areas of Interest:

  • Monetary Economics

Recent Papers:

"Perfectly Competitive Bilateral Exchange Without Discounting," with Edward J. Green

"Equilibrium Lending Mechanism and Aggregate Activity," with Cheng Wang

"Money as a Mechanism in a Bewley Economy," (with Edward J. Green), International Economic Review, 46, 2005, pp. 351-371.

 

"A Stable Money Demand:  Looking for the Right Monetary Aggregate," (with Pedro Teles), Economic Perspectives, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, first quarter 2005, pp. 50-63.

 

"Does Commodity Money Eliminate the Indeterminacy of Equilibria?'' Journal of Economic Theory, 110, 2003, pp.176--190.

 

"Dynamic Monetary Equilibrium in a Random-Matching Economy,'' (with Edward J. Green), Econometrica, 70, 2002, pp. 929--969.

 

"When Can We Forecast Inflation?'' (with Jonas Fisher and Chin Liu), Economic Perspectives, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, first quarter 2002, pp. 32-42.

 

"Understanding Intraday Credit in Large-Value Payment Systems,'' Economic Perspectives, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, third quarter 2000, pp. 29-44

 

"Individual and Aggregate Real Balances in a Random-Matching Model,''  International Economic Review, 40, 1999, 1009--1038.

 

"A Rudimentary Random-Matching Model with Divisible Money and Prices,'' (with Edward J. Green), Journal of Economic Theory, 81, 1998, pp. 252-271.

 

"A Model of Currency Shortage,'' (with Neil Wallace), Journal of Monetary Economics, 40, 555-572, pp. 1997.

 

"Currency Exchange in a Random Search Model,''  Review of Economic Studies, 64, 1997, 289-310.

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