CHARLES L. WEISE
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Department of Economics
Gettysburg College
Gettysburg, PA 17325
(717) 337-6672
cweise@gettysburg.edu
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84 Springs Ave.
Gettysburg, PA 17325
(717) 338-9224
EDUCATION
Ph.D, Economics, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1993.
Bachelor of Science, Foreign Service, Georgetown University, 1985.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Gettysburg College, Department of Economics
Professor, 2010-present
Associate Professor, 2003-present
Assistant Professor, 2000-2003
Chair, 2004-2010
Lancaster University, Department of Economics
Visiting Lecturer, Fall 2003
College of William and Mary, Department of Economics
Assistant Professor, 1993-2000
University of Wisconsin – Madison, Department of Economics
Instructor, 1991-1992
Teaching Assistant, 1987-1991
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
“Political Pressures on Monetary Policy During the U.S. Great Inflation,” American Economic Journal:
Macroeconomics (forthcoming).
“It’s the Right Moment to Embrace the Minsky Model,” (with Robert J. Barbera), in Dimitri B.
Papadimitriou and L. Randall Wray (eds.), The Elgar Companion to Hyman Minsky, Edward Elgar
Publishing Ltd., 2010.
“Minsky Meets Wicksell: Using the Wicksellian Model to Understand the Twenty-First Century Business
Cycle” (with Robert J. Barbera), in Giuseppe Fontana and Mark Setterfield (eds.), Macroeconomic Theory
and Macroeconomic Pedagogy, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
“Private Sector Influences on Monetary Policy in the United States,” Journal of Money, Credit, and
Banking 40, 2-3 (March-April 2008), pp. 449-462.
“A Simple Wicksellian Macroeconomic Model,” The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics: Vol. 7: Iss. 1
(Topics), Article 11, 2007.
“Does the Time Consistency Model of Inflation Explain Cross-Country Differences in Inflation Dynamics?”
(with John F. Boschen). Journal of International Money and Finance 2004, 735-759.
“What Starts Inflation: The Evidence from OECD Countries” (with John F. Boschen). Journal of Money,
Credit, and Banking, June 2003, 323-350.
“The Ex Ante Credibility of Disinflation Policy and the Cost of Reducing Inflation” (with John F. Boschen),
Journal of Macroeconomics, Summer 2001, 323-347.
“Is Delayed Disinflation More Costly?” (with John F. Boschen). Southern Economic Journal, January
2001, 701-712.
“The Asymmetric Effects of Monetary Policy: A Nonlinear Vector Autoregression Approach,” Journal of
Money, Credit, and Banking, February 1999, 85-108.
“Severity of Economic Fluctuations Under a Balanced Budget Amendment,” Contemporary Economic
Policy, April 1996, 26-40.
UNPUBLISHED PAPERS AND RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
“The Monetary Policy Response to Changes in Credit Spreads” (with David Krisch), September 2010,
under review.
NON-ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
“A Job-Rich US Recovery Is Still Possible” (with Robert J. Barbera), Financial Times, January 10, 2010.
Online Case Studies for Money, Banking and Financial Markets, Laurence M. Ball.
PRESENTATIONS AT CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS
“The Monetary Policy Response to Changes in Credit Spreads,” Eastern Economic Association
Conference, New York, February 2009.
“Minsky Meets Wicksell: Using the Wicksellian Model to Understand the Twenty-First Century Business
Cycle,” Johns Hopkins University Department of Economics Macroeconomics Workshop, November
2008.
“Political Constraints on Monetary Policy During the U.S. Great Inflation,” Johns Hopkins University
Department of Economics Macroeconomics Workshop, March 2008.
“Private Sector Influences on Monetary Policy in the United States,” Eastern Economics Association
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Annual Meeting, New York, NY, February 2007.
“Alternative Explanations for the ‘Great Inflation’”, University of Richmond Economics Department
seminar, January 2005.
“A Wicksellian Model for the Intermediate Macroeconomics Course”, Sixth Annual Economics and the
Classroom Conference, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, September 2004.
“Alternative Explanations for the ‘Great Inflation’”, Lancaster University Economics Department
seminar, December 2003.
“Alternative Explanations for the ‘Great Inflation’”, Money Macro and Finance Research Group Annual
Conference, Cambridge, UK, September 2003.
“State and Local Fiscal Policy and the Business Cycle”, November 2002. Southern Economics Association
annual meeting, New Orleans, LA.
“Trouble Ahead for the U.S. Economy?”, August 2002. DeutschAmerikanisches Institut Summer
Workshop at Gettysburg College.
Three Things I Learned From the Current Recession. Association of Independent Colleges and
Universities of Pennsylvania Donor Breakfast Meeting, Lancaster Pennsylvania, February 2002.
How Conservative is the Federal Reserve? Annual Meeting of the Econometrics Society, Atlanta,
Georgia, January 2002.
Private Sector Influences on Monetary Policy in the United States. Gettysburg College Department of
Economics Seminar, November 2001.
The Economic Impact of September 11. Presentation to New York Leadership Group, November 2001.
What Starts Inflation: The Evidence from OECD Countries. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve,
February 2000.
What Starts Inflation: The Evidence from OECD Countries. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, June 1999.
Oil and Commodity Price Shocks, Inflation Persistence, and the Political Environment. Theories and
Methods in Macroeconomics Conference, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, May 1999.
Oil and Commodity Price Shocks, Inflation Persistence, and the Political Environment. Midwest
Macroeconomics Conference, University of Pittsburgh, March 1999.
Oil and Commodity Price Shocks, Inflation Persistence, and the Political Environment. Department of
Economics seminar, Virginia Commonwealth University, November 1998.
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The Political Environment and the Dynamics of Inflation. Department of Economics seminar, Johns
Hopkins University, March 1998.
Why Inflations Start: An Empirical Analysis. Department of Economics seminar, Virginia Tech,
November 1997.
Sources of High Unemployment in OECD Countries. Banco de Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal, July 1997.
The Ex Ante Credibility of Disinflation Policy and the Cost of Reducing Inflation. NBER Summer Institute,
Monetary Economics Program, July 1997.
Credibility and the Costs of Disinflation. Department of Economics Seminar, College of William and
Mary, March 1996.
Credibility and the Costs of Disinflation. Annual meeting of the Econometric Society, January 1996.
Sources of the ‘Asymmetric Effects’ of Monetary Policy. Southern Economic Association annual
conference, November 1995.
Productivity and Earnings in the 1980s. Southern Economics Association annual conference, November
1994.
Local Interaction, Sectoral Shocks, and Aggregate Fluctuations. Department of Economics Seminar,
College of William and Mary, April 1994.
COURSES TAUGHT AT GETTYSBURG COLLEGE
Introductory Economics
Current Economic Issues
Principles of Macroeconomics
Intermediate Macroeconomics
History of Economic Thought
Money and Financial Intermediaries
International Monetary Economics
Econometrics
Seminar: Advanced Topics in Theoretical and Applied Macroeconomics
Honors Research Seminar
J.M. Keynes and Britain Between the Wars
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Member, American Economic Association, Southern Economic Association.
Referee: American Economic Review, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, Journal of Economics and
Business, Canadian Journal of Economics, Journal of Macroeconomics, Scottish Journal of Political
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Economy, Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control,
Macroeconomic Dynamics, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics.
Textbook reviewer: McGraw-Hill (Frank and Bernanke, Principles of Economics, 2nd edition); McGraw-Hill
(DeLong, Macroeconomics, 2nd edition); Worth Publishers (Ball, Money and Banking, 1st edition).
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