Journal Article
Feeding the national accounts
Ritter, Joseph A. (2000-03)
A complex tracking system, the National Income and Product Accounts (NIPA) is used to measure and monitor the U.S. economy. This article surveys the main data sources currently used in the NIPA. It is not primarily an article about methodology, but focuses instead on the raw inputs to the process: Who is answering what kinds of questions? Closer acquaintance with the data sources behind the accounts highlights the considerable uncertainty about exact magnitudes of various aggregate quantities (and their growth rates) and the need for ongoing evaluation of the data-collection efforts that ...
Review , Volume 82 , Issue Mar , Pages 11-20

Journal Article
Search-theoretic models of international currency - commentary
Ritter, Joseph A. (1996-05)
Review , Volume 78 , Issue May , Pages 133-135

Working Paper
Commitment as investment under uncertainty
Ritter, Joseph A.; Haubrich, Joseph G. (1996)
An explanation of how irreversible investment and the techniques associated with pricing real options can apply to a broad range of problems in finance, macroeconomics, and trade policy.
Working Papers (Old Series) , Paper 9606

Journal Article
School and work
Ritter, Joseph A. (1998-06)
National Economic Trends , Issue Jun

Journal Article
An overstated headline
Ritter, Joseph A. (1999-07)
National Economic Trends , Issue Jul

Journal Article
Moonlighting
Ritter, Joseph A. (1998-01)
National Economic Trends , Issue Jan

Journal Article
Economic models of employee motivation
Taylor, Lowell J.; Ritter, Joseph A. (1997-09)
Workers present employers with a range of tricky problems. They can be crooked, subversive, surly, or indolent, even if they are paid on time. Joseph A. Ritter and Lowell J. Taylor explore economists' main theories of how compensation is used to address employee motivation and how these models help to explain puzzling features of labor market. Although these theories are often regarded as competitors, the authors treat them as complementary tools in understanding how employers deal with the complex problem of motivating workers.
Review , Issue Sep , Pages 3-21

Working Paper
Commitment as irreversible investment
Haubrich, Joseph G.; Ritter, Joseph A. (1992)
Considering time inconsistency as a problem of irreversible investment brings some neglected points to the fore. Making a policy choice in real time and under current conditions emphasizes the importance of the timing of commitment, the regret over past decisions, and the option value of not committing. This paper applies these concepts to monetary policy, banking regulation, and capital taxation.
Working Papers (Old Series) , Paper 9217

Journal Article
The tortoise revises the hare
Ritter, Joseph A. (1997-07)
National Economic Trends , Issue Jul

Journal Article
An outsider's guide to real business cycle modeling
Ritter, Joseph A. (1995-03)
Review , Issue Mar , Pages 49-60