Christopher Sleet

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Associate Professor of Economics

Teaching and Research Interests:

• Macroeconomics, dynamic public finance, contract theory

Website and/or personal homepage:
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/csleet/

Useful Links:

• Vita

Published Papers: 

• Fiscal hedging with nominal assets
  Journal of Monetary Economics 55, 2008; 710-727.
  (With: Hanno Lustig, Sevin Yeltekin)
  
  
• Politically Credible Social Insurance
  Journal of Monetary Economics 55, 2008; 129-151.
  (With: Sevin Yeltekin)
  
  
• Endogenous Incomplete Markets: Implications for Macroeconomics
  New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Ed.s S. Durlauf and L. Blume., 2008.
  
  
• Recursive Monetary Policy Games with Incomplete Information
  Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control (with S. Yeltekin) 31, 2007; 1557-1583.
  
  
• Recursive Monetary Policy Games with Incomplete Information
  Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 31, 2007; 1557-1583.
  (With: Sevin Yeltekin)
  
  
• Credibility and Endogenous Societal Discounting
  Review of Economic Dynamics 9, 2006; 410-437.
  (With: Sevin Yeltekin)
  
  
• Dynamic Optimal Taxation with Private Information
  Review of Economic Studies 73, 2006; 1-30.
  (With: Stefania Albanesi)
  
  
• Optimal Taxation with Endogenously Incomplete Debt Markets
  Journal of Economic Theory 127, 2006; 36-73.
  (With: Sevin Yeltekin)
  
  
• Optimal Taxation with Private Government Information
  Review of Economic Studies 71, 2004; 1217-1239.
  
  
• Dynamic Labor Contracts with Temporary Layoffs and Permanent Separations
  Economic Theory 18, 2001; 207-235.
  (With: Sevin Yeltekin)
  
  
• Markov Perfect Equilibria in Industries with Complementarities
  Economic Theory 17, 2001; 371-397.
  
  
• Credible Monetary Policy and Private Information
  Journal of Economic Theory 99, 2001; 338-376.
  
  
• Deposit and Lender of Last Resort Functions
  Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 32, 2000; 518-575.
  (With: B Smith)
  
  

Working Papers: 

• Allocation and Taxation in Uncommitted Societies
  January, 2009.
  (With: Sevin Yeltekin)
  
  
• Solving Dynamic Private Information Models
  August, 2008.
  (With: Sevin Yeltekin)
  
  
• Social Credibility, Social Patience and Long Run Inequality
  October, 2007.
  (With: Sevin Yeltekin)
  
  

Editorial Boards:

• Journal of Monetary Economics (Associate Editor), 2008-

Courses Taught:

• Macroeconomics I (47-802)
  (Ph.D. Program)
  • 2008, Mini 3 (Section: A)
  • 2007, Mini 4 (Section: A)
  
  
• Macroeconomics (73-200)
  (B.S. in Economics Program)
  • 2008, Spring (Section: A)
  • 2008, Spring (Section: B)
  • 2008, Fall (Section: A)
  • 2008, Fall (Section: B)
  
  
• Advanced Macro-economics Theory (73-253)
  (B.S. in Economics Program)
  • 2008, Mini 2 (Section: A)
  • 2007, Mini 4 (Section: A)