Born: March 18, 1955, Urbana, Illinois Cowles Foundation

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1708 (June 2009)

83. “Leverage-induced systemic risk under Basle II and other credit risk policies” (with D. Farmer, S. Poledna, S. Thurner), Journal of Banking & Finance (May 2014), 42: 199-212.

84. “Endogenous Collateral Constraints and the Leverage Cycle” (with A. Fostel), Annual

Review of Economics (May 2014), 6(1): 771-799.
85. “Leverage, Default, and Forgiveness: Lessons of the American and European Crises” Journal of Macroeconomics. (May 2014), 39 (Part B): 313-333.
86. “Collateral Equilibrium: I: A Basic Framework” (with W. Zame), Economic Theory

(August 2014), 56 (3): 443-492

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1906 (August 2013)
87. “Financial Innovation, Collateral and Investment” (with A. Fostel), American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (March 2015), 8(1): 242-284 [CFP 1510]

88. “Leverage and Default in Binomial Economies: A Complete Characterization” (with A. Fostel). Econometrica, Vol. 83, No.6 (November 2015), 2191-2229.

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1877 (September 2012)

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1877R (August 2014)

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1877R (March 2015)
89. “The Credit Surface and Monetary Policy”, in Progress and Confusion: The State of Macroeconmic Policy” International Monetary Fund and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. MIT Press, (2016):143-153.
90. “Inefficient Liquidity Provision” (with K. Walsh), forthcoming, Economic Theory

(February 2017).

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 2077 (February 2017)

91. “Greece’s sovereign debt and economic realism” (J. Bulow), Centre for Economic Policy Research. Policy Insight No. 90. (June 2017)


Papers Submitted for Publication
92. “Money and Status: How Best to Incentivize Work” (with P. Dubey).

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1954 (July 2014)

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1954R (May 2016)

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1954R2 (February 2017)

93. “Global Collateral: How Financial Innovation Drives Capital Flows and Increases Financial

Instability” (with A. Fostel, G. Phelan)

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 2076 (February 2017)
94. “The Hangman’s Paradox and Newcomb’s Paradox as Psychological Games”

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1128 (July1996)

95. “Hyperbolic Discounting is Rational: Valuing the Far Future with Uncertain Discount Rates” (with J. Doyne Farmer)

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1719 (August 2009, Revised 2014) Submitted.

96. "Uncertain Growth and the Value of the Future" (with D. Farmer, J. Masoliver, M. Montero, J. Perello) (Submitted 2014)
97. “Why is Too Much Leverage Bad for the Economy” (with F. Kubler)
Books Edited
98. Celebrating Irving Fisher: The Legacy of a Great Economist, (2005) (R. Dimand and J. Geanakoplos (eds.)), Blackwell Publishing: Oxford.
Opinion Pieces

99. “Mortgage Justice Is Blind” (with Susan Koniak) New York Times op-ed, October 30, 2008.

100. “Matters of Principal” (with Susan Koniak) New York Times op-ed, March 4, 2009.
101. “End the Obsession with Interest” Nature, Commentaries, February 19, 2009.
102. “Generation X: Does Bush Understand His Social Security Plan?” The New Republic, October 23, 2000.
103. “Greek Debt and American Debt: Graduation Speech at the University of Athens Economics and Business School"

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1837 (November 2011)

104. “Greece’s sovereign debt and economic realism” (J. Bulow), VOX CEPR’s Policy Portal. (June 2017)
105. “In Life Choose what is Beautiful, but Choose Wisely” Quinnipiac University Commencement Address, May 20^th, 2017.

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 2091 (May 2017)

About John Geanakoplos
“Crisis Compels Economists to Reach for New Paradigm,” Mark Whitehouse, Wall Street Journal, November 4, 2009.

“The Economist The Obama Administration Should Have Listened To,” Shahien Nasiripour, Huffington Post, November 12, 2009.

“This Time They Are More Interested,” David Warsh, economicprincipals.com, April 12, 2009.

“Five Economists Who Deserve Nobels,” Noah Smith, Bloomberg News, December 9, 2014.

Videos

Professor Herbert E. Scarf Memorial Service Recording, August 26th, 2016.

Television & Radio Appearances

The Leverage Cycle: Cause and Cure for the Current Crisis, Company of Scholars Lecture Series, Yale University, November 15 2011

The State of the U.S. Economy: How Do We Create More Jobs? Yale University, October 13, 2011

Infrastructure, Housing: Path to Recovery, CNBC, September 21, 2011

The State of Housing, CNBC, December 23, 2009

Warren on the Foreclosure Crisis on NPR’s on Point and in Newsweek, December 10, 2009

How to Stem the Foreclosure Tide, 90.9 Boston NPR,” OnPoint with Tom Ashbrook, December 9, 2009

Grading Government’s Mortgage Modification Plan, CNBC, August 4, 2009

Sluggish Loan Relief, CNBC, August 4, 2009

Arianna and John Geanakoplos Discuss Foreclosures on Squawk Box, March 31, 2009

Life after Leverage, CNBC, March 31, 2009

Will New Mortgage Modifications Plan Work?, CNBC, TheRealDeal with Diane Olick, January 13, 2009

Housing’s New Fix, CNBC, January 9, 2009

Housing’s New Start, CNBC, December 26, 2008

Backing Mortgages: Will It Work?, CNBC, November 25, 2008

Reworking Housing, CNBC, October 30, 2008

More Home Rescue Plans? Let Prices Fall and Start over Again, CNBC, October 30, 2008

Papers under Revision

106. “Dollar Denominated Debt and Optimal Security Design, Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1449 (2003). (Previously appeared as “Financial Security Design, Ex Ante Welfare and Dollar Denominated Debt” (with F. Kubler) August 2000 and “Financial Securities Design, Dollar Denominated Debt, and Welfare,” Yale mimeo).

107. “Comparative Statics and Local Indeterminacy in OLG Economics: An Application of the Multiplicative Ergodic Theorem” (with D. Brown), Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No.773 (1985).
108. “Insurance Contracts Designed by Competitive Pooling” (with Pradeep Dubey),

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1315 (2001).

109. “Beyond Equilibrium and Efficiency” (with J. Doyne Farmer) (2007).

IMF paper—johns papers