Michael A Gavin
Biographic Data
| ID | 4375147 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael A Gavin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael A |
| FAMILY NAME | Gavin |
| SIGNATURE | GAVIN M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4721-480X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Interest Groups and Central Bank Credit Policies: Evidence From 1600-1914
Before the 19th century, nearly all central banks financed government spending, but as the centuries passed direct government financing became taboo. Using original data from 69 central banks established between 1600-1914, this study traces a shift away from government financing and towards increased support for private sector credit via discounting commercial bills of exchange beginning in the 18th century. What drove this transformation in cent…
Populism and De Facto Central Bank Independence
Although central bank independence is a core tenet of monetary policy-making, it remains politically contested: In many emerging markets, populist governments are in frequent public conflict with the central bank. At other times, the same governments profess to respect the monetary authority’s independence. We model this conflict drawing on the crisis bargaining literature. Our model predicts that populist politicians will often bring a nominally…
Why Distant Reading Works
To consider why distant reading works is already to invite a certain kind of misunderstanding. Readers of this essay are likely to infer from its title that I mean to discuss the theories of Franco Moretti or to defend research in cultural analytics against criticism from skeptics. Neither of those is my focus. The argument of this essay is in some ways narrower, in that I largely set aside polemical debates over "digital humanities" or the role …
Global Club Goods and the Fragmented Global Financial Safety Net
It is generally regarded that a robust global financial safety net is a global public good. Yet public goods models that explain the existence of the global financial safety net cannot also explain why it is highly fragmented and provisioned so inequitably. This study shows that the global financial safety net's existence, fragmentation, and inequitable coverage can be explained by modeling the global financial safety net as a global club good. T…
Vector Semantics, William Empson, and the Study of Ambiguity
Digital Humanities and the History of Literary Studies
Book Review| September 01 2015 Digital Humanities and the History of Literary Studies Underwood, Ted. Why Literary Periods Mattered: Historical Contrast and the Prestige of English Studies. (Stanford: Stanford Univ., 2013). Pp. viii+ 199. $35 Michael Gavin Michael Gavin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 59–64. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-3143743 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share F…
Serial Publication and the Vendible Canon
Book Review| September 01 2010 Serial Publication and the Vendible Canon Thomas F. Bonnell. The Most Disreputable Trade: Publishing the Classics of English Poetry, 1765 - 1810 (Oxford: Oxford Univ., 2008). Pp. xiv + 387. $99 Michael Gavin Michael Gavin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 12–16. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-2010-003 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter L…
Populism and De Facto Central Bank Independence
Although central bank independence is a core tenet of monetary policy-making, it remains politically contested: In many emerging markets, populist governments are in frequent public conflict with the central bank. At other times, the same governments profess to respect the monetary authority’s independence. We model this conflict drawing on the crisis bargaining literature. Our model predicts that populist politicians will often bring a nominally…
Vector Semantics, William Empson, and the Study of Ambiguity
Why Distant Reading Works
To consider why distant reading works is already to invite a certain kind of misunderstanding. Readers of this essay are likely to infer from its title that I mean to discuss the theories of Franco Moretti or to defend research in cultural analytics against criticism from skeptics. Neither of those is my focus. The argument of this essay is in some ways narrower, in that I largely set aside polemical debates over "digital humanities" or the role …
Serial Publication and the Vendible Canon
Book Review| September 01 2010 Serial Publication and the Vendible Canon Thomas F. Bonnell. The Most Disreputable Trade: Publishing the Classics of English Poetry, 1765 - 1810 (Oxford: Oxford Univ., 2008). Pp. xiv + 387. $99 Michael Gavin Michael Gavin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 12–16. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-2010-003 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter L…
Digital Humanities and the History of Literary Studies
Book Review| September 01 2015 Digital Humanities and the History of Literary Studies Underwood, Ted. Why Literary Periods Mattered: Historical Contrast and the Prestige of English Studies. (Stanford: Stanford Univ., 2013). Pp. viii+ 199. $35 Michael Gavin Michael Gavin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 59–64. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-3143743 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share F…
Vector Semantics, William Empson, and the Study of Ambiguity
Global Club Goods and the Fragmented Global Financial Safety Net
It is generally regarded that a robust global financial safety net is a global public good. Yet public goods models that explain the existence of the global financial safety net cannot also explain why it is highly fragmented and provisioned so inequitably. This study shows that the global financial safety net's existence, fragmentation, and inequitable coverage can be explained by modeling the global financial safety net as a global club good. T…
Why Distant Reading Works
To consider why distant reading works is already to invite a certain kind of misunderstanding. Readers of this essay are likely to infer from its title that I mean to discuss the theories of Franco Moretti or to defend research in cultural analytics against criticism from skeptics. Neither of those is my focus. The argument of this essay is in some ways narrower, in that I largely set aside polemical debates over "digital humanities" or the role …
Populism and De Facto Central Bank Independence
Although central bank independence is a core tenet of monetary policy-making, it remains politically contested: In many emerging markets, populist governments are in frequent public conflict with the central bank. At other times, the same governments profess to respect the monetary authority’s independence. We model this conflict drawing on the crisis bargaining literature. Our model predicts that populist politicians will often bring a nominally…
Interest Groups and Central Bank Credit Policies: Evidence From 1600-1914
Before the 19th century, nearly all central banks financed government spending, but as the centuries passed direct government financing became taboo. Using original data from 69 central banks established between 1600-1914, this study traces a shift away from government financing and towards increased support for private sector credit via discounting commercial bills of exchange beginning in the 18th century. What drove this transformation in cent…
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