Lee E. Ohanian


Professor of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles

Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

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  • Economic Crisis
  • Great Depression
  • Congressional Testimony

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  • "Are Phillips Curves Useful for Forecasting Inflation", with Andrew Atkeson, Federal Reseve Bank of Minneapolis, Winter 2001.


  • "Bad Investments and Missed Opportunities", with Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria, and Mark L. J. Wright, American Economic Review, 2018.


  • "Bretton Woods and the Reconstruction of Europe", with Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria, Diana Van Patten, and Mark L. J. Wright, February 2020.


  • "Cant Pay or Wont Pay - Unemployment, Negative Equity, and Strategic Default", with Kristopher Geradi, Kyle F Herkenhoff, and Paul S Willen.


  • "Capital-Skill Complementarity and Inequality, Econometrica", with Per Krusell, Jose-Victor Rios-Rull, and Giovanni L. Violante, Econometrica, September 2000.


  • "Dynamic Equilibrium Economies - A Framework for Comparing Models and Data, ReStud", with Francis X Diebold and Jeremy Berkowitz, Review of Economic Studies, March 1997.


  • "Economic Crisis from a Neoclassical Perspective", with Andrea Raffo and Richard Rogerson, Journal of Monetary Economics, 55 (8), pp. 1353-1362, 2008.


  • "Great Depression in the U.S. from a Neoclassical Perspective", Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2010.


  • "Long Term Changes in Labor Supply and Taxes - Evidence from OECD Countries", with Andrea Raffo and Richard Rogerson, Journal of Monetary Economics, 55 (8), pp. 1353-1362, 2008.


  • "Macroeconomic Effects of War Finance in the United States", American Economic Association, Vol. 87 No. 1, pp. 23-40, March 1997.


  • "New Deal Policies and the Persistence of the Great Depression", with Harold L Cole, Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 112 No. 4 pp. 779-816, August 2004.


  • "Postwar British Economic Growth and the Legacy of Keynes, JPE", with Thomas F Cooley, Journal of Political Economy, vol. 105 no. 3, 1997.


  • "Tarnishing the golden and empire states - Land Use Restrictions and the US Economic Slowdown", with Kyle F Herkenhoff, and Edward C Prescott, Journal of Monetary Economics, 93, pp. 89-109, 2018.


  • "What - or who - started the great depression", Journal of Economic Theory, 114 pp. 2310-2335 , 2009.


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