Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé, Professor

Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé

Please note: Stephanie has left the "Economics" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

Office Location:  221A Social Sciences Building
Office Phone:  +1 919 660 1889
Email Address: send me a message
Web Page:  http://www.econ.duke.edu/~grohe

Office Hours:

By Appointment
Education:

Ph.D. in EconomicsUniversity of Chicago1994
Specialties:

Macroeconomics
Research Interests:

Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe is a professor of economics in the Department of Economics at Duke University. She is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a research affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research. Currently, Dr. Schmitt-Grohe serves as an associate editor of the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking and the Journal of the European Economic Association and is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Macroeconomics. Before joining Duke in 2003, she taught at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and was an economist in the Division of Monetary Affairs at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Dr. Schmitt-Grohe has held visiting positions at the European Central Bank, Goethe University in Frankfurt, and Princeton University. Her research and writings have primarily focused on macroeconomic issues, in particular monetary and fiscal policy. She received her doctorate in economics in 1994 from the University of Chicago.

Current Ph.D. Students  

Representative Publications

  1. Morten Ravn, Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe, and Martin Uribe, Deep Habits, Review of Economic Studies, vol. 73 (January 2006), pp. 195-218 [html]
  2. Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé and Martin Uribe, Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy in a Medium-Scale Model of the Macroeconomy, in NBER Macroeconomics Annual, edited by Mark Gertler and Kenneth Rogoff (2006), pp. 383-425, MIT Press [html]
  3. Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe and Martin Uribe, Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy under Sticky Prices, Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 114 (February, 2004), pp. 198-230 [html]
  4. J. Benhabib, S. Schmitt-Grohé and M. Uribe, Avoiding Liquidity Traps, Journal of Political Economy, vol. 110 (June, 2002), pp. 535-563
  5. Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé, Endogenous Business Cycles and the Dynamics of Output, Hours, and Consumption, American Economic Review, vol. 90 (December, 2000), pp. 1136-59