Christopher D. Carroll

The Johns Hopkins University

Professor of Economics
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Christopher Carroll is Professor of Economics at the Johns Hopkins University in
Baltimore and an NBER Research Associate in the programs on Monetary Economics and
Economic Fluctuations and Growth. He received his PhD from MIT and has held positions at
the Federal Reserve Board and the Council of Economic Advisors in Washington, D.C.

1) Electronic versions of all papers

Electronic versions of all papers (2011)

2) Published papers

Precautionary Saving and Precautionary Wealth (with Miles S. Kimball), Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and Finance (2007)

The Method of Endogenous Gridpoints for Solving Dynamic Stochastic Optimization Problems, Economics Letters (2006)

Death to the Log-Linearized Consumption Euler Equation! (And Very Poor Health to the Second-Order Approximation), Advances in Macroeconomics (2001)

Requiem for the Representative Consumer? Aggregate Implications of Microeconomic Consumption Behavior, American Economic Review (2000)

Buffer Stock Saving and the Life Cycle/Permanent Income Hypothesis, Quarterly Journal of Economics (1997)

3) Unpublished papers

Theoretical Foundations of Buffer Stock Saving (2011)

4) Solution methods lecture notes

Solving Microeconomic Dynamic Stochastic Optimization Problems (2011)

5) Graduate lecture notes

Graduate Macroeconomics Lecture Notes, Johns Hopkins University (2012)

Lecture Notes on Asset Pricing (2011)

Lecture Notes on Consumption (2011)

Lecture Notes on Economic Growth (2011)

Lecture Notes on Real Business Cycle Models (2011)

Precautionary Saving and Precautionary Wealth

Precautionary Saving and Precautionary Wealth (with Miles S. Kimball), Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and Finance (2007)

Asset Pricing, Bubbles, Lucas Tree Model, Equity Premium Puzzle

Lecture Notes on Investment (2011)