Lucas M. Engelhardt

Published Work

Expansionary Monetary Policy and Decreasing Entrepreneurial Quality, The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp 172-194 (2012) [pdf]

Comment on Young, The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp 60-62 (2009) [pdf]

Essays in Capital Utilization, Dissertation (2010), [OhioLink]

Job Market Paper

Shift Work and Business Cycles [pdf]

Works in Progress

Inventories, Business Cycles, and Variable Capital Utilization

Bayesian Estimation of a Shift Work Model

Segment Shifts and Capital Utilization

Revisiting the Misesian Grounds for Positive Time Preference

Programs

Improved HP filter (m file) - A "MATLABification" of the FORTRAN code implemented by Khan and Thomas.  More memory efficient and faster than Izvorski's HP filter m-file.

Presentation Links

Central Planning's Computation Problem, Austrian Scholars Conference 2012 [audio here]

How the Fed Hurts You, Case Western Reserve University, Students for Liberty, April 17, 2012 [video here]

My broader research focus is on the treatment of capital in macroecomic models.

Currently, my work is focusing on assumptions regarding capital utilization and how it relates to various macroeconomic phenomena - inventory dynamics, shiftwork, and segment shifts/sectoral adjustment.  In the future, I hope to explore stages of production as well.

I am also trained in computational methods, as some of my work (especially the paper on Khan and Thomas) is computationally intensive.

If you are interested in co-authoring a paper with me, feel free to contact me at lengelha@kent.edu