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Working Papers

2024

1. Unit Cost Expectations and Uncertainty: Firms' Perspectives on Inflation
   FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
   Also in Working Papers, The George Washington University, Department of Economics, H. O. Stekler Research Program on Forecasting (2021) View citations (4)
   FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2021) View citations (3)

2023

2. Estimates of Cost-Price Passthrough from Business Survey Data
   Staff Reports, Federal Reserve Bank of New York View citations (1)
   Also in Working Papers, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (2023) View citations (1)
   FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2023) View citations (1)
   Working Papers, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (2023) View citations (1)
3. How Do Firms Adjust Prices in a High Inflation Environment?
   Liberty Street Economics, Federal Reserve Bank of New York View citations (1)
4. Tell Me Something I Don't Already Know: Learning in Low and High-Inflation Settings
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (7)
   Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2023) View citations (6)
   FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2023) View citations (8)
5. The Impact of Supply Chain Disruptions on Business Expectations during the Pandemic
   FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article The impact of supply chain disruptions on business expectations during the pandemic, Energy Economics, Elsevier (2023) (2023)
6. The shift to remote work lessens wage-growth pressure
   CEP Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE
   Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2022) View citations (8)
   POID Working Papers, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE (2022) View citations (3)
   FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2022) View citations (9)
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2022) View citations (10)

2022

7. Pandemic-Era Uncertainty
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (6)
   Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2022) View citations (6)
   See also Journal Article Pandemic-Era Uncertainty, JRFM, MDPI (2022) View citations (6) (2022)

2021

8. COVID-19 Is a Persistent Reallocation Shock
   FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta View citations (22)
   Also in Working Papers, Becker Friedman Institute for Research In Economics (2021) View citations (32)
   SocArXiv, Center for Open Science (2021) View citations (27)
   See also Journal Article COVID-19 Is a Persistent Reallocation Shock, AEA Papers and Proceedings, American Economic Association (2021) View citations (31) (2021)
9. Pandemic-Era Uncertainty on Main Street and Wall Street
   FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
   Also in Working Papers, Becker Friedman Institute for Research In Economics (2020) View citations (5)

2020

10. Economic Uncertainty Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic
    Working Papers, Becker Friedman Institute for Research In Economics View citations (279)
    Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2020) View citations (289)
    FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2020) View citations (188)
    Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers), HAL (2020) View citations (204)
    Post-Print, HAL (2020) View citations (204)
    Bank of England working papers, Bank of England (2020) View citations (285)
    Discussion Papers, University of Nottingham, Centre for Finance, Credit and Macroeconomics (CFCM) (2020) View citations (282)
    See also Journal Article Economic uncertainty before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier (2020) View citations (215) (2020)
11. Surveying Business Uncertainty
    FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta View citations (64)
    Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2019) View citations (25)
    See also Journal Article Surveying business uncertainty, Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier (2022) View citations (21) (2022)
12. The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Business Expectations
    Working Papers, The George Washington University, Department of Economics, H. O. Stekler Research Program on Forecasting View citations (6)
    Also in FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2020) View citations (5)
    See also Journal Article The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on business expectations, International Journal of Forecasting, Elsevier (2022) View citations (22) (2022)

2016

13. The Usefulness of the Median CPI in Bayesian VARs Used for Macroeconomic Forecasting and Policy
    FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article The usefulness of the median CPI in Bayesian VARs used for macroeconomic forecasting and policy, Empirical Economics, Springer (2019) View citations (4) (2019)

2015

14. Lessons for Forecasting Unemployment in the U.S.: Use Flow Rates, Mind the Trend
    Working Papers (Old Series), Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland View citations (2)
15. Lessons for forecasting unemployment in the United States: use flow rates, mind the trend
    FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta View citations (1)

2014

16. The inflation expectations of firms: what do they look like, are they accurate, and do they matter?
    FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta View citations (31)
17. Trimmed-Mean Inflation Statistics: Just Hit the One in the Middle
    FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta View citations (12)
    Also in Working Papers (Old Series), Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (2012) View citations (14)

2013

18. It’s not just for inflation: The usefulness of the median CPI in BVAR forecasting
    Working Papers (Old Series), Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland View citations (10)

Journal Articles

2025

1. In Optimism We Trust? Explaining the Disconnect between Post-Election Optimism and Own-Firm Expectations
   Policy Hub, 2025, 2025, (2), 10

2023

2. The impact of supply chain disruptions on business expectations during the pandemic
   Energy Economics, 2023, 126, (C)
   See also Working Paper The Impact of Supply Chain Disruptions on Business Expectations during the Pandemic, FRB Atlanta Working Paper (2023) View citations (1) (2023)

2022

3. Access to Credit for Small and Minority-Owned Businesses
   Economic Commentary, 2022, 2022, (04), 6
4. Pandemic-Era Uncertainty
   JRFM, 2022, 15, (8), 1-14 View citations (6)
   See also Working Paper Pandemic-Era Uncertainty, NBER Working Papers (2022) View citations (6) (2022)
5. Surveying business uncertainty
   Journal of Econometrics, 2022, 231, (1), 282-303 View citations (21)
   See also Working Paper Surveying Business Uncertainty, FRB Atlanta Working Paper (2020) View citations (64) (2020)
6. The Impact of the Pandemic on US Businesses: New Results from the Annual Business Survey
   Policy Hub, 2022, 2022, (3), 13
7. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on business expectations
   International Journal of Forecasting, 2022, 38, (2), 529-544 View citations (22)
   See also Working Paper The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Business Expectations, Working Papers (2020) View citations (6) (2020)

2021

8. COVID-19 Is a Persistent Reallocation Shock
   AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2021, 111, 287-91 View citations (31)
   See also Working Paper COVID-19 Is a Persistent Reallocation Shock, FRB Atlanta Working Paper (2021) View citations (22) (2021)

2020

9. Economic uncertainty before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
   Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 191, (C) View citations (215)
   See also Working Paper Economic Uncertainty Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Working Papers (2020) View citations (279) (2020)

2019

10. The usefulness of the median CPI in Bayesian VARs used for macroeconomic forecasting and policy
    Empirical Economics, 2019, 57, (2), 603-630 View citations (4)
    See also Working Paper The Usefulness of the Median CPI in Bayesian VARs Used for Macroeconomic Forecasting and Policy, FRB Atlanta Working Paper (2016) View citations (1) (2016)

2013

11. Forecasting inflation? Target the middle
    Economic Commentary, 2013, (Apr) View citations (4)

2012

12. An unstable Okun’s Law, not the best rule of thumb
    Economic Commentary, 2012, (June) View citations (13)
13. Do rising rents complicate inflation assessment?
    Economic Commentary, 2012, (Feb)

2011

14. Demographic differences in inflation expectations: what do they really mean?
    Economic Commentary, 2011, (May) View citations (7)

2010

15. Are some prices in the CPI more forward looking than others? We think so
    Economic Commentary, 2010, 2010, (02), 6 View citations (28)
16. Simple ways to forecast inflation: what works best?
    Economic Commentary, 2010, (Dec) View citations (24)

2007

17. Peak oil
    Economic Commentary, 2007, (Aug) View citations (1)