Jonathan Parker

Developing Perceptions of Competence during Practice Learning (2006)

Parker, Jonathan

Practice learning is central to the changes in social work education in the UK but the evidence-base indicating why this should be has not been rigorously examined. Studies of effectiveness conducted...

Developing Perceptions of Competence during Practice Learning (2005)

Parker, Jonathan

Practice learning is central to the changes in social work education in the UK but the evidence-base indicating why this should be has not been rigorously examined. Studies of effectiveness conducted...

Has fiscal policy helped stabilize the postwar U.S. economy (2002)

John Bailey Jones, Eric French, Eric Leeper, Jonathan Parker, Kenneth West, Christopher Wheeler

In this paper, I consider whether postwar fiscal policy has helped stabilize the U.S. economy. I do this by adding to the stochastic growth model fiscal policy feedback rules estimated from postwar...

Optimal Expectations

Jonathan Parker, Markus K Brunnermeier

This paper introduces a tractable, structural model of subjective beliefs. Since agents that plan for the future care about expected future utility flows, current felicity can be increased by...

Precautionary Saving and Consumption Fluctuations

Jonathan Parker, Bruce Preston

This paper uses data on the expenditures of households to explain movements in the average growth rate of consumption in the U.S. from the beginning of 1982 to the end of 1997. We propose and...