Rice University Banner Image [clpxl.gif] [clpxl.gif] [clpxl.gif] [baker.jpg] Home Faculty Faculty Directory & Schedule Undergraduate Graduate Candidates Workshops Working Papers [Bryant.jpg] John Bryant Henry S. Fox, Sr. Professor of Economics and Professor of Management CONTACT INFORMATION Baker Hall 264 Ph:713.348.3341 Fax: 713.348.5278 Email: jbb@rice.edu EDUCATION Ph.D., Economics, Carnegie Mellon University, 1975 M. S., Economics, Carnegie Mellon University, 1973 B.A., Economics, Oberlin College (High Honors), 1969 RESEARCH INTERESTS Development of Bryant's game WORKING PAPERS AND FORTHCOMING PAPERS "Causality in the microfoundations of macroeconomics" RECENT PUBLICATIONS "Fiat Money and Coordination: A 'Perverse' Coexistence of Private Notes and Fiat Money", Eastern Economic Journal (post symposium contribution) 31, #3 (Summer 2005). "Coordination, Fragility, High Powered Money and the Liquidity Trap: A 'Tobinesque' Parable," Eastern Economic Journal, Symposium on Macroeconomic Coordination Failures 31, #1 (Winter 2005). "Trade, Credit and Systemic Fragility," Journal of Banking and Finance 26 (March 2002). "Coordination, Credit and an Elastic Currency," Macroeconomic Dynamics, 1 (1997 #4). "Interest-Bearing Currency, Legal Restrictions and the Rate of Return Dominance of Money." in L.White (ed.), Free Banking, Vol III, Modern Theory and Policy, The International Library of Macroeconomic and Financial History, London, Edward Elgar, (1993), reprinted from Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 21 (May 1989). "A Price Discrimination Analysis of Monetary Policy," in K. Hoover (ed.), The New Classical Macroeconomics, The International Library of Critical Writing in Economics, London, Edward Elgar (1992), (with Neil Wallace), reprinted from The Review of Economic Studies 51 (April 1984). "A Simple Rational Expectations Keynes-Type Model," in N. Mankiw and D. Romer (eds.), Coordination Failures and Real Rigidities, New Keynesian Economics Vol II, MIT Press Readings in Economics (B. Friedman and L. Summers, eds.), Cambridge, Mass., M.I.T. Press (1991), reprinted from Quaterly Journal of Economics 98 (August 1983). "The Inefficiency of Interest-Bearing National Debt," in K. Hoover (ed.), The New Classical Macroeconomics, The International Library of Critical Writing in Economics, London, Edward Elgar (1992), (with Neil Wallace), reprinted from Journal of Political Economy 87 (April 1979). Navigational Links © 2001 Rice University [clpxl.gif] To Rice Home Page [clpxl.gif]