Sharon Harrison

 Title: Associate Professor

 Office:  Room 7 Lehman Hall

 
Current Office Hours & Teaching Schedule

Phone: (212) 854-3333  fax: (212) 854-8947

 email:
 sharriso@barnard.edu
 sh411@columbia.edu

B.S., Tufts University, Mathematics and Quantitative Economics, 1989
M.A., Northwestern University, Economics, 1995
Ph.D., Northwestern University, Economics, 1997

Teaching Specialties:

Macroeconomics
Statistics and Econometrics

Research Interests:

- Business Cycle Theory
- Indeterminacy and Sunspots in Macroeconomics
- Applied Econometrics

Selected Publications:

"Chaos, Sunspots and Automatic Stabilizers," with Lawrence J. Christiano, Journal of Monetary Economics (1999)

"Indeterminacy in a Model with Sector-Specific Externalities," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control (2001)

"Balanced Budget Rules and Macroeconomic (In)stability," with Jang-Ting Guo, Journal of Economic Theory ( 2004)

Did Sunspot Forces Cause the Great Depression?" with Mark Weder, Journal of Monetary Economics, (2006)