Ronald Michener

Associate Professor

E-mail:
Phone: 434-924-7113

Address:
PO Box 400182
Department of Economics
Monroe Hall
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4182

Research Interests

Colonial monetary history; monetary theory; economic history

Education

• Bachelor of Science (BS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Master of Arts (MA), University of Chicago
• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Chicago

Current Downloadable Papers

Research Papers

"Fixed Exchange Rates and the Quantity Theory in Colonial America," Carnegie-Rochester Conferences Volume, 1987;

"The Political Economy of Insider Trading Laws," with C.Tighe, Papers and Proceedings of the American Economic Associations, 1994;

"Inflation, Expectations, and Output: Lucas's Island Revisited," Journal of Macroeconomics 20, 767-83, Fall 1998;

"State 'Currencies' and the Transition to the U.S. Dollar: Clarifying some Confusions." , R. Michener and R. Wright, American Economic Review, 682-703, June 2005;

"Development of the US monetary union," R. Michener and R. Wright, Financial History Review, vol. 13:1, 19-41, 2006