• Brief Bio

        Pavlina R. Tcherneva is Associate Director for Economic Analysis at the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability (C-FEPS), and a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Prior to joining C-FEPS Tcherneva worked as a Research Fellow at the Forecasting Center of the Jerome Levy Economics Institute. Her areas of research included nonresidential investment, personal saving, European and Latin American economies. Successful forecasts include the late 90s slowdown in capital equipment spending, spurt in office construction, boom in aircraft and trucking equipment investment and the recession in Brazil. Tcherneva's research interests further include monetary theory and public policy. Tcherneva obtained two Bachelor's degrees (Summa Cum Laude) in Economics and Mathematics from Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania (May 1997), where she was initiated into Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society. In her Economics thesis she focused on the government as an employer of last resort and developed a mathematical framework for full employment and price stability. Her Mathematics thesis dealt with topics from Combinatorics and Game Theory in particular. Tcherneva also holds an MA in Economics from the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

• Curriculum Vitae
   

• Selected Publications

  Refereed Journal Articles and Encyclopedia Entries

  “Universal Assurances in the Public Interest: Evaluating the Economic Viability of Basic Income and Job Guarantees”, International Journal of Environment, Workplace, and Employment, (forthcoming in 2006).

  “Common Goals – Different Solutions: Can Basic Income and Job Guarantees Deliver Their Own Promises?” (with L. Randall Wray), Rutgers Journal of Law and Urban Policy, 2005, 2(1): 125-166.

  “Depressions” (with Mathew Forstater), encyclopedia entry in Cynthia Northrup, ed., History of U.S. Economic Policy 1600s-2000: An Encyclopedia, ABC-Clio, 2003.

   

  “Monopoly Money: The State as a Price Setter” Oeconomicus, Vol. 5, Winter, 2002.

   

  “Money: A Comparison of the Post Keynesian and Orthodox Approaches,” Oeconomicus, Vol. 2, Spring, 2001.

  Books and Chapters in Edited Books

  Full Employment and Price Stability: The Macroeconomic Vision of William S. Vickrey, (with Mathew Forstater, eds.) Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2004.

  “Chartalism and the Tax-Driven Approach to Money,” in P. Arestis and M. Sawyer (eds.) Handbook of Alternative Monetary Economics, (forthcoming in 2006).

  Working Papers, Policy Notes, and Special Reports (2005 only)

   “Gender and the Job Guarantee: The impact of Argentina’s Jefes program on female heads of poor households” (with L. Randall Wray), Working Paper 48, Center for Full Employment and Price Stability, Kansas City, MO, December 2005.

  “The Art of Job Creation: Promises and Problems of the Argentinean Experience,” Special Report 05/03, Center for Full Employment and Price Stability, Kansas City, MO, September 2005.  

   “Is Jefes de Hogar an Employer of Last Resort program?: An assessment of Argentina’s ability to deliver the promise of full employment and price stability” (with L. Randall Wray), Working Paper 43, Center for Full Employment and Price Stability, Kansas City, MO, August 2005.

  “Missouri’s Cost of Unemployment” Special Report 05/02, Center for Full Employment and Price Stability, Kansas City, MO, May 2005.

  “Can Basic Income and Job Guarantees Deliver on Their Promises” (with L. Randall Wray), Working Paper 42, Center for Full Employment and Price Stability, Kansas City, MO, May 2005.

  “Employer of Last Resort: A Case Study of Argentina's Jefes Program” (with L. Randall Wray), Working Paper 41, Center for Full Employment and Price Stability, Kansas City, MO, April 2005.