Research
Publications:
"Information, Animal Spirits, and the Meaning of
Innovations in Consumer Confidence" with Bob Barsky, pdf,
forthcoming July 2012, American
Economic Review
"News Shocks and Business Cycles" with Bob Barsky,
April 2011, pdf, Journal of
Monetary
Economics 58(3), 273-289. Link to published version: link
"Confidence and the Transmission of Government Spending
Shocks"
with Ruediger Bachmann, April 2012, pdf, Journal
of Monetary Economics 59(3), 235-249. Link to published
version: link
"Taylor Rules and Technology Shocks" July 2012, pdf, Economics
Letters 116(1), 92-95. Link to published version: link
Working
Papers:
"News, Non-Invertibility, and Structural VARs" April 2012, pdf, revised
and
resubmitted, Advances in Econometrics
"Uncertainty and Economic Activity: Evidence from Business
Survey Data" with Ruediger Bachmann and Steffen Elstner, August
2011, pdf
(also NBER WP #16143), revise and resubmit, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
"Reallocation and the Changing Nature of Economic
Fluctuations" November 2011, with Mike Pries and
Julio Garin, pdf, submitted
"Inflation Expectations and Readiness to Spend:
Cross-Sectional
Evidence" with Rudi Bachman and Tim Berg, March 2012, pdf
"Permanent and Transitory Technology Shocks and the Behavior of
Hours: A Challenge for DSGE Models" August 2011, pdf
"The Effects of Real Gasoline Prices on Automobile Demand: A Structural
Analysis Using Micro Data" with Lutz Kilian, April 2006 (awaiting
data update) pdf
Works in Progress:
"Testing for Bubbles in the US Housing Market" with Bob Flood and Julio
Garin
"Pitfalls in Estimating Taylor Rules"
Older, Superseded Working Papers
"Expectations Driven Business Cycles: An Empirical
Exploration" pdf
"News Shocks" with Bob Barsky, pdf
The results of these two papers have
been combined into one paper, "News Shocks and Business Cycles", linked
above
"Identification and Estimation of Interest Rate Rules in the New
Keynesian Model" pdf
The results for this paper are being
subsumed into a new paper that is in progress, "Pitfalls in Estimating
Taylor Rules"
Other:
My IDEAS page: link
Discussion of Blanchard,
L'Hullier, and Lorenzoni "News, Noise,
and Fluctuations: An Empirical Exploration" for the summer 2009 NBER
EF&G Meeting: pdf
Media coverage of uncertainty paper: The
Atlantic, WSJ
Blog, ND
News