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Working Papers

2026

1. Skewness warrants caution as Trimmed Mean PCE inflation eases
   Dallas Fed Economics, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

2025

2. What is keeping core inflation above 2 percent?
   Dallas Fed Economics, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

2022

3. Rent Inflation Expected to Accelerate Then Moderate in Mid-2023
   Dallas Fed Economics, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

2021

4. Average Inflation over the Pandemic Avoids 'Base-Effect' Distortions
   Dallas Fed Economics, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
5. Surging House Prices Expected to Propel Rent Increases, Push Up Inflation
   Dallas Fed Economics, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
6. The Labor Market May Be Tighter than the Level of Employment Suggests
   Dallas Fed Economics, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
7. What the Trimmed Mean Says About Future Inflation: Broadening Price Pressures Ahead
   Dallas Fed Economics, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

2020

8. Dallas Fed Mobility and Engagement Index Gives Insight into COVID-19’s Economic Impact
   Dallas Fed Economics, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
9. Mobility and Engagement Following the SARS-Cov-2 Outbreak
   Working Papers, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas View citations (9)

2019

10. Another Benefit of Trimming: Smaller Inflation Revisions
    Dallas Fed Economics, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
11. Room to Grow? Inflation and Labor Market Slack
    Dallas Fed Economics, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
12. The Politics of Flat Taxes
    Working Papers, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland View citations (2)
    Also in Working Papers, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (2017) View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article The Politics of Flat Taxes, Review of Economic Dynamics, Elsevier for the Society for Economic Dynamics (2021) View citations (1) (2021)
13. Two Measures of Core Inflation: A Comparison
    Working Papers, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas View citations (9)
    See also Journal Article Two Measures of Core Inflation: A Comparison, Review, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (2019) View citations (12) (2019)
14. Which Core to Believe? Trimmed Mean Versus Ex-Food-and-Energy Inflation
    Dallas Fed Economics, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

2015

15. Majority Voting: A Quantitative Investigation
    Working Papers (Old Series), Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland View citations (1)

2014

16. Almost orthogonal outcomes under probabilistic voting: A cautionary example
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (4)

2013

17. Disastrous disappointments: asset-pricing with disaster risk and disappointment aversion
    Working Papers, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas View citations (3)

2012

18. Campbell and Cochrane meet Melino and Yang: reverse engineering the surplus ratio in a Mehra-Prescott economy
    Working Papers, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article Campbell and Cochrane meet Melino and Yang: Reverse engineering the surplus ratio in a Mehra–Prescott economy, The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, Elsevier (2017) (2017)

2010

19. Endogenous Growth with Multisector Ramsey Models
    Levine's Working Paper Archive, David K. Levine View citations (2)

2008

20. What do majority-voting politics say about redistributive taxation of consumption and factor income? Not much
    Working Papers, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas View citations (8)

2007

21. Real business cycle dynamics under first-order risk aversion
    Working Papers, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas View citations (4)

2005

22. Trimmed mean PCE inflation
    Working Papers, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas View citations (58)

2003

23. The Political Economy of Immigrationa and Income Redistribution
    Vanderbilt University Department of Economics Working Papers, Vanderbilt University Department of Economics View citations (2)

2000

24. The dynamics of immigration policy with wealth-heterogeneous immigrants
    Working Papers, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas View citations (6)

1998

25. On the political economy of immigration and income redistribution
    Working Papers, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas View citations (13)
    See also Journal Article ON THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF IMMIGRATION AND INCOME REDISTRIBUTION, International Economic Review, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association (2004) View citations (95) (2004)

1997

26. Inequality, inflation, and central bank independence
    Working Papers, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas View citations (4)
    See also Journal Article Inequality, inflation, and central bank independence, Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Economics Association (2000) View citations (37) (2000)
27. On the political economy of immigration
    Working Papers, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas View citations (4)
28. Specialization and the effects of transactions costs on equilibrium exchange
    Working Papers, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
29. The political economy of endogenous taxation and redistribution
    Working Papers, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas View citations (5)
    See also Journal Article The political economy of endogenous taxation and redistribution, Economics Letters, Elsevier (1997) View citations (5) (1997)

1996

30. An exploration into the effects of dynamic economic stabilization
    Working Papers, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas View citations (1)

1994

31. Fiscal policy in more general equilibrium
    Working Papers, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas View citations (3)

Journal Articles

2021

1. The Politics of Flat Taxes
   Review of Economic Dynamics, 2021, 39, 174-201 View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper The Politics of Flat Taxes, Working Papers (2019) View citations (2) (2019)
   Software Item Code and data files for "The Politics of Flat Taxes", Computer Codes (2020) (2020)

2019

2. Two Measures of Core Inflation: A Comparison
   Review, 2019, 101, (4) View citations (12)
   See also Working Paper Two Measures of Core Inflation: A Comparison, Working Papers (2019) View citations (9) (2019)

2017

3. Campbell and Cochrane meet Melino and Yang: Reverse engineering the surplus ratio in a Mehra–Prescott economy
   The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, 2017, 40, (C), 55-62
   See also Working Paper Campbell and Cochrane meet Melino and Yang: reverse engineering the surplus ratio in a Mehra-Prescott economy, Working Papers (2012) View citations (1) (2012)

2016

4. Health care services depress recent PCE inflation readings
   Economic Letter, 2016, 11, (11), 1-4 View citations (2)

2011

5. Inflation measurement gives us food for thought
   Economic Letter, 2011, 6, (4)

2009

6. Excluding items from personal consumption expenditures inflation
   Staff Papers, 2009, (Jun) View citations (1)

2008

7. Measuring core inflation: notes from a 2007 Dallas Fed conference
   Staff Papers, 2008, (May) View citations (3)
8. On the record: The art and science of measuring inflation: a conversation with Jim Dolmas
   Southwest Economy, 2008, (Jul), 8-9

2005

9. A fitter, trimmer core inflation measure
   Southwest Economy, 2005, (May), 1, 4-9 View citations (4)

2004

10. Globalization: myths and realities
    Southwest Economy, 2004, (Sep), 13-14
11. ON THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF IMMIGRATION AND INCOME REDISTRIBUTION
    International Economic Review, 2004, 45, (4), 1129-1168 View citations (95)
    See also Working Paper On the political economy of immigration and income redistribution, Working Papers (1998) View citations (13) (1998)

2003

12. A note on the potential pitfalls in estimating a 'wealth effect' on consumption from aggregate data
    Economics Letters, 2003, 78, (3), 437-441 View citations (4)
13. Monetary policy in a zero-interest-rate economy
    Southwest Economy, 2003, (Jul), 1-5, 16 View citations (3)

2002

14. The national economy: heading for a dip?
    Southwest Economy, 2002, (Nov), 9 - 12

2000

15. Inequality, inflation, and central bank independence
    Canadian Journal of Economics, 2000, 33, (1), 271-287 View citations (37)
    Also in Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, 2000, 33, (1), 271-287 (2000) View citations (25)
    See also Working Paper Inequality, inflation, and central bank independence, Working Papers (1997) View citations (4) (1997)

1999

16. The U.S. Productivity Slowdown: A Peak through the Structural Break Window
    Economic Inquiry, 1999, 37, (2), 226-41 View citations (8)

1998

17. Elastic Capital Supply and the Effects of Fiscal Policy
    Economic Inquiry, 1998, 36, (4), 553-74 View citations (2)
18. Risk Preferences and the Welfare Cost of Business Cycles
    Review of Economic Dynamics, 1998, 1, (3), 646-676 View citations (89)

1997

19. The political economy of endogenous taxation and redistribution
    Economics Letters, 1997, 56, (2), 223-227 View citations (5)
    See also Working Paper The political economy of endogenous taxation and redistribution, Working Papers (1997) View citations (5) (1997)

1996

20. Balanced-growth-consistent recursive utility
    Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 1996, 20, (4), 657-680 View citations (18)
21. Endogenous Growth in Multisector Ramsey Models
    International Economic Review, 1996, 37, (2), 403-21 View citations (20)
22. Exploring general equilibrium: Fisher Black, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1995, xii + 318
    International Review of Economics & Finance, 1996, 5, (3), 335-337

1995

23. Time-additive representations of preferences when consumption grows without bound
    Economics Letters, 1995, 47, (3-4), 317-325 View citations (8)

Software Items

2020

1. Code and data files for "The Politics of Flat Taxes"
   Computer Codes, Review of Economic Dynamics
   See also Journal Article The Politics of Flat Taxes, Review of Economic Dynamics, Elsevier for the Society for Economic Dynamics (2021) View citations (1) (2021)