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Working Papers

2023

1. Charged and Almost Ready—What Is Holding Back the Resale Market for Battery Electric Vehicles?
   Working Paper Series, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

2021

2. Predicting Benchmarked US State Employment Data in Real Time
   Working Papers, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis View citations (2)
   Also in Working Paper Series, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (2019)
   See also Journal Article Predicting benchmarked US state employment data in real time, International Journal of Forecasting, Elsevier (2021) (2021)
3. Tracking U.S. Consumers in Real Time with a New Weekly Index of Retail Trade
   Working Paper Series, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago View citations (1)

2020

4. The perils of working with Big Data and a SMALL framework you can use to avoid them
   Working Paper Series, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago View citations (1)
5. Using the Eye of the Storm to Predict the Wave of Covid-19 UI Claims
   Working Paper Series, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago View citations (12)
   Also in Working Paper Series, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (2020) View citations (11)

2018

6. Calibrating Macroprudential Policy to Forecasts of Financial Stability
   Working Paper Series, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco View citations (5)
   See also Journal Article Calibrating Macroprudential Policy to Forecasts of Financial Stability, International Journal of Central Banking, International Journal of Central Banking (2019) View citations (2) (2019)

2016

7. Forecasting Economic Activity with Mixed Frequency Bayesian VARs
   Working Paper Series, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago View citations (16)

2012

8. The Chicago Fed DSGE model
   Working Paper Series, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago View citations (22)

2011

9. Federal Reserve policies and financial market conditions during the crisis
   Working Paper Series, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago View citations (9)
   Also in Proceedings, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (2011) View citations (9)

2010

10. Gathering insights on the forest from the trees: a new metric for financial conditions
    Working Paper Series, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago View citations (21)

2008

11. Competition Within a Cartel: Correction
    Econometrics Working Papers, Department of Economics, University of Victoria

Journal Articles

2023

1. Persistently Pessimistic: Consumer and Small Business Sentiment After the Covid Recession
   Chicago Fed Letter, 2023, no 490, 9

2022

2. Blending data to understand the economic impact of COVID-19
   Business Economics, 2022, 57, (2), 64-77
3. Forecasting unemployment insurance claims in realtime with Google Trends
   International Journal of Forecasting, 2022, 38, (2), 567-581 View citations (11)
4. The perils of working with big data, and a SMALL checklist you can use to recognize them
   Business Horizons, 2022, 65, (4), 481-492

2021

5. Measuring the Effects of the Covid-19 Delta Wave on the U.S. Hourly Labor Market
   Chicago Fed Letter, 2021, (461), 6
6. Predicting benchmarked US state employment data in real time
   International Journal of Forecasting, 2021, 37, (3), 1261-1275
   See also Working Paper Predicting Benchmarked US State Employment Data in Real Time, Working Papers (2021) View citations (2) (2021)

2020

7. Calibrating Macroprudential Policies for the Canadian Mortgage Market
   C.D. Howe Institute Commentary, 2020, (570)
8. Explaining urban economic growth through cluster complementarity
   Growth and Change, 2020, 51, (1), 4-33 View citations (2)
9. Looking down the road with ALEX: Forecasting U.S. GDP
   Chicago Fed Letter, 2020, (447), 5 View citations (1)
10. Measuring Detroit's Economic Progress with the DEAI
    Chicago Fed Letter, 2020, (434), 6
    Also in Chicago Fed Letter, 2020, (434) (2020)
11. The Stay-at-Home Labor Market: Google Searches, Unemployment Insurance, and Public Health Orders
    Chicago Fed Letter, 2020, (436) View citations (10)

2019

12. A New “Big Data” Index of U.S. Economic Activity
    Economic Perspectives, 2019, (1), 1-30 View citations (5)
13. A “Big Data” View of the U.S. Economy: Introducing the Brave-Butters-Kelley Indexes
    Chicago Fed Letter, 2019
14. Calibrating Macroprudential Policy to Forecasts of Financial Stability
    International Journal of Central Banking, 2019, 15, (1), 1-59 View citations (2)
    See also Working Paper Calibrating Macroprudential Policy to Forecasts of Financial Stability, Working Paper Series (2018) View citations (5) (2018)
15. Forecasting economic activity with mixed frequency BVARs
    International Journal of Forecasting, 2019, 35, (4), 1692-1707 View citations (21)
16. The Competitive Effects of Performance-Enhancing Drugs: MLB in the Posttesting Era
    Journal of Sports Economics, 2019, 20, (6), 747-781 View citations (1)

2018

17. What Does Labor Market Tightness Tell Us About the End of an Expansion?
    Chicago Fed Letter, 2018

2017

18. Introducing the Chicago Fed’s New Adjusted National Financial Conditions Index
    Chicago Fed Letter, 2017 View citations (3)
19. Tracking Detroit’s Economic Recovery After Bankruptcy with a New Index
    Chicago Fed Letter, 2017

2016

20. Is There Still Slack in the Labor Market?
    Chicago Fed Letter, 2016 View citations (6)
21. Using Private Sector “Big Data” as an Economic Indicator: The Case of Construction Spending
    Chicago Fed Letter, 2016 View citations (3)

2015

22. The Chicago Fed Survey of Business Conditions: Quantifying the Seventh District’s Beige Book Report
    Economic Perspectives, 2015, (Q III) View citations (3)

2014

23. Estimating marginal treatment effects using parametric and semiparametric methods
    Stata Journal, 2014, 14, (1), 191-217 View citations (35)
24. Nowcasting Using the Chicago Fed National Activity Index
    Economic Perspectives, 2014, (Q I), 19-37 View citations (9)
25. Using the Federal Reserve’s Beige Book to Track Economic Activity
    Chicago Fed Letter, 2014, (Nov)

2013

26. Estimating the trend in employment growth
    Chicago Fed Letter, 2013, (July) View citations (3)
27. Estimating the trend rate of economic growth using the CFNAI
    Chicago Fed Letter, 2013, (June) View citations (2)

2012

28. A different way to review the Chicago Fed National Activity Index
    Chicago Fed Letter, 2012, (May) View citations (1)
29. Detecting early signs of financial instability
    Chicago Fed Letter, 2012, (Dec) View citations (1)
30. Diagnosing the Financial System: Financial Conditions and Financial Stress
    International Journal of Central Banking, 2012, 8, (2), 191-239 View citations (118)

2011

31. Monitoring financial stability: a financial conditions index approach
    Economic Perspectives, 2011, 35, (Q I), 22-43 View citations (154)
32. Predicting gross state product growth with the Chicago Fed's Midwest Economy Index
    Chicago Fed Letter, 2011, (Dec)

2010

33. A snapshot of the Midwest economy: past and present
    Chicago Fed Letter, 2010, (Nov) View citations (1)
34. Chicago Fed National Activity Index turns ten - analyzing its first decade of performance
    Chicago Fed Letter, 2010, (Apr) View citations (3)

2009

35. How does labor adjustment in this recession compare with the past?
    Chicago Fed Letter, 2009, (Jun) View citations (3)
36. The Chicago Fed National Activity Index and business cycles
    Chicago Fed Letter, 2009, (Nov) View citations (10)

2008

37. Economic trends and the Chicago Fed National Activity Index
    Chicago Fed Letter, 2008, (May) View citations (3)

2004

38. In search of a robust inflation forecast
    Economic Perspectives, 2004, 28, (Q IV), 12-31 View citations (15)