Department of Economics, University of Michigan


Robert Barsky Professor of Economics PhD, MIT, 1985 U of M Affiliation(s) Faculty Associate, Survey Research Center Contact Information University of Michigan Department of Economics 611 Tappan Street 356 Lorch Hall Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1220 Phone: 734-764-9476 Fax: 734-764-2769 Email: barsky@umich.edu

Fields of Study Macroeconomics Monetary Economics About Robert Barsky Professor Barsky's primary teaching and research interests include monetary economics and macroeconomics, with additional interests in applied price theory, the distribution of wealth, and behavioral economics. Publications Barsky, Robert B. and Lutz Kilian, "Did Oil Shocks Really Cause the Great Stagflation of the 1970s?" Macroeconomics Annual, 2001, forthcoming. Barsky, Robert B., M. Bergen, D. Levy and S. Dutta, "What Can the Price Gap Between Branded and Generic Products Tell Us About Markups?" The Uses of Scanner Data, eds. R. Feenstra and M. Shapiro, 2001, forthcoming. Barsky, Robert B., F. T. Juster and M. Kimball, "Preference Parameters and Behavioral Heterogeneity: An Experimental Approach in the Health and Retirement Study," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 112(2), May 1997, 537-579. Barsky, Robert B. and Elizabeth Warner, "The Timing and Magnitude of Retail Story Markdowns: Evidence from Weekends and Holidays," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 110(2), May 1995, 321-352. Barsky, Robert B., Jonathan Parker and Gary Solon, "Measuring the Cyclical Behavior of Real Wages: How Important is Composition Bias?" Quarterly Journal of Economics, 109(1), February 1994, 1-25