Pavlina R. Tcherneva is an American economist, of

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of economics at

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. She is also a research associate at the

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and expert at the

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Education

Tcherneva studied economics and mathematics at

Gettysburg College Gettysburg College is a private liberal arts college in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1832, the campus is adjacent to the Gettysburg Battlefield. Gettysburg College has about 2,600 students, with roughly equal numbers of men and women. ...

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, obtaining her

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with honors in both, in 1997. She obtained her

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in Economics at the

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, in 2004, where she also defended her Economics and Social Science

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dissertation in 2008.

Career

Tcherneva has taught at the

Franklin and Marshall College Franklin & Marshall College (F&M) is a private liberal arts college in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It employs 175 full-time faculty members and has a student body of approximately 2,400 full-time students. It was founded upon the merger of Frankli ...

and the

. During 2000-2006, she served as the associate director for economic analysis at the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability, where she remains a senior research associate. In summer 2006, she was a visiting scholar at the

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's Centre for Economic and Public Policy, in the United Kingdom, and since July 2007, she's a research scholar at the

. Tcherneva's work is on

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issues, where she is conducting research in the field of fiscal policy, with a focus on full employment. She is a notable proponent of

modern monetary theory Modern Monetary Theory or Modern Money Theory (MMT) is a heterodox * * * * * * macroeconomic theory that describes currency as a public monopoly and unemployment as evidence that a currency monopolist is overly restricting the supply of t ...

and the notion of a

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. Her research on monetary and fiscal policies, specifically under sovereign currency regimes and the macroeconomic effects of alternative stabilization programs, including both the Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and responses from the Federal Reserve's policy during the Great Recession have appeared in the ''Review of Social Economy, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, and International Journal of Political Economy'', in addition to other publications.https://www.levyinstitute.org/scholars/pavlina-r-tcherneva She has also collaborated with policymakers from various countries, including the United States, on developing job-creation programs.

Selected works

* Forstater, Mathew & Tcherneva, P. (editors) ''Full Employment and Price Stability: The Macroeconomic Vision of

William S. Vickrey William Spencer Vickrey (21 June 1914 – 11 October 1996) was a Canadian-American professor of economics and Nobel Laureate. Vickrey was awarded the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with James Mirrlees for their research into the ec ...

'', Elgar, 2004, * Tcherneva, Pavlina.
Chartalism and the tax-driven approach
in Philip Arestis & Malcolm C. Sawyer, ''A handbook of alternative monetary economics''. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2006 * Tcherneva, Pavlina.
The Nature, Origins, and Role of Money: Broad and Specific Propositions and Their Implications for Policy
Center for Full Employment and Price Stability,

, July 2005 * *

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Personal website
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tcherneva, Pavlina R. 21st-century American economists Modern monetary theory scholars Post-Keynesian economists Living people American people of Bulgarian descent Year of birth missing (living people)

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