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Ross M. Starr, 1945-

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Neo-Walrasian general equilibrium theorist at UC San Diego.  Starr obtained his Ph.D. at Stanford in 1972, under Kenneth Arrow.

Ross M. Starr is perhaps most famous for his trading models integrating money into general equilibrium theory.

 

  


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Major Works of Ross M. Starr

  • "Quasi-Equilibria in Markets with Non-Convex Preferences" 1969, Econometrica.
  • "The Structure of Exchange in Barter and Monetary Economies" 1972, QJE. [cwls]
  • "Optimal Production and Allocation Under Uncertainty" 1973, QJE. [cwls]
  • "The Price of Money in a Pure Exchange Monetary Economy with Taxation", 1974, Econometrica. [cwls]
  • "Money and the Decentralization of Exchange" with Joseph Ostroy, 1974, Econometrica [cwls]
  • "Equilibrium with Nonconvex Transactions Costs: Monetary and Nonmonetary Economies" with Walter P. Heller, 1976, RES. [cwls]
  • "Decentralized Nonmonetary Trade", 1976, Econometrica.
  • "Money in a Sequence Economy: A Correction", 1978, RES.
  • "Unemployment Equilibrium with Myopic Complete Information" with Walter P. Heller, 1979, RES.
  • "Capital Market Imperfection, the Consumption Function, and the Effectiveness of Fiscal Policy," with Walter P. Heller, 1979, QJE.
  • "General Equilibrium Approaches to the Study of Monetary Economies: Comment on Recent Developments," in Kareken and Wallace, editors, Models of Monetary Economies, 1980.
  • "Approximation of Points of the Convex Hull of a Sum of Sets by Points of the Sum: An Elementary Approach," 1981, JET.
  • "Pairwise, t-wise, and Pareto Optimalities," with Steven M. Goldman, 1982, Econometrica,
  • "Decentralized Trade in a Credit Economy," 1986, in Heller et al., editors, Equilibrium Analysis.
  • "A Note on Indivisibilities, Specialization, and Economies of Scale" with B.K. Edwards, 1987, AER.
  • Editor, General Equilibrium Models of Monetary Economies, 1989.
  • Editor, General Equilibrium Models of Monetary Economies: Studies in the Static Foundations of Monetary Theory, 1989.
  • "The Transactions Role of Money," with J. M. Ostroy, 1990, in Friedman and Hahn, editors, Handbook of Monetary Economics. - intro
  • "The Demand for M1 in the USA, 1960-1988", with Y. Baba and D.F. Hendry, 1992, RES.
  • "Two-Part Marginal Cost Pricing Equilibrium: Existence and Efficiency" with D.J.Brown and Walter P. Heller, 1992, JET.
  • "Liquidity Constraints and Intertemporal Consumer Optimization: Theory and Evidence from Durable Goods," with E.Y. Chah and V. Ramey, 1995, JMCB.
  • "Transaction Costs, Technological Choice, and Endogenous Growth," with V. Bencivenga and B. Smith, 1995, JET.
  • "Liquidity of Secondary Capital Markets: Allocative Efficiency and the Maturity Composition of the Capital Stock," with V. Bencivenga and B. Smith, 1996, ET .
  • "Why is there money? Endogenous derivation of 'money' as the most liquid asset: a class of examples", 2003, ET.
  • Why Is There Money? Walrasian General Equilibrium Foundations of Monetary Theory, 2012

 


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