Julio Jacobo Rotemberg was an Argentine/American

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at Harvard Business School. He was known for his collaboration with Michael Woodford on the first

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DSGE model, especially on monopolistic competition. He was also known for an alternative model of sticky prices. Rotemberg held a

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in economics (1975) from the

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, and a

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in economics (1981) from

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References

Selected publications

* ''"Sticky Prices in the United States"''. Journal of Political Economy,

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. December 1982. * ''"The New Keynesian Microfoundations"''. NBER Macroeconomics Annual 1987, Volume 2. * "''Human Relations in the Workplace''". Journal of Political Economy. August 1994. * Rotemberg and

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. "''A Supergame-Theoretic Model of Price Wars during Booms"''. American Economic Review. June 1986.

External links

Website at Harvard
* * 1953 births 2017 deaths American economists New Keynesian economists University of California, Berkeley alumni Princeton University alumni Harvard Business School faculty MIT Sloan School of Management alumni Fellows of the Econometric Society Distinguished Fellows of the American Economic Association Labor economists {{US-economist-stub