Neil Rankin's Personal Web Page

Recent Working Papers

'Maximum Sustainable Government Debt in the Perpetual Youth Model', September 2012 (forthcoming in Bulletin of Economic Research) (download as pdf file)

'The Effectiveness of Government Debt for Demand Management: Sensitivity to Monetary Policy Rules' (with Guido Ascari), August 2012 (forthcoming in Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control) (download as pdf file)

Technical Appendices

'A Further Contribution towards Explaining Why Disinflation through Currency Pegging May Cause a Boom: Technical Appendix' (download as pdf file) (Accompanies article in Journal of International Money and Finance 30(3) (2011), 516-536)

'Output Persistence from Monetary Shocks with Staggered Prices or Wages under a Taylor Rule: Technical Appendix' (download as pdf file) (Accompanies article in Economics Letters 105(2) (2009), 148-151.)

Current Teaching

• MSc Advanced Macroeconomics (ECO00001M)
• Macroeconomics 2 (ECO00002I)
• Macroeconomics 3 (ECO00002H)

Office Hours

Thursday 2:00 - 4:00 (from 22.1.13 until further notice)

You are also welcome to call in at other times without an appointment

Departmental Responsibilities

Director, Graduate School in Economics

PhD students supervised, with date of completion

• Eugenia Anagnostopoulou (1988)
• Roberto Rivera-Campos (1992)
• Lei Zhang (1993)
• Adrian Jimenez-Gomez (1993)
• Gianluca Femminis (1995)
• Barbara Roffia (1996)
• Oreste Tristani (1996)
• Jesus Otero (1998)
• Guido Ascari (1998)
• Giulio Piccirilli (1999)
• Fabrizio Zampolli (2000)
• Giovanni Ganelli (2002)
• David Aikman (2002)
• Chris Marsh (2005)
• Dudley Cooke (2005)
• Reginald Darius (2005)
• Atsuyoshi Morozumi (2009)
• Santiago Acosta Ormaechea (2009)
• Christian Saborowski (2009)
• Ian Corrick