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Working Papers

2024

1. Firms’ Resilience to Energy Shocks and Response to Fiscal Incentives: Assessing the Impact of 2022 Energy Crisis
   IMF Working Papers, International Monetary Fund
2. Tell me something I don’t already know: learning in low and high-inflation settings
   Working Paper Series, European Central Bank View citations (2)
   Also in CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers (2023)
   FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2023) View citations (8)
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2023) View citations (6)
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2023) View citations (7)
   See also Journal Article Tell Me Something I Don't Already Know: Learning in Low‐ and High‐Inflation Settings, Econometrica, Econometric Society (2025) View citations (1) (2025)
3. Unit Cost Expectations and Uncertainty: Firms' Perspectives on Inflation
   FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta View citations (1)
   Also in FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2021) View citations (3)
   Working Papers, The George Washington University, Department of Economics, H. O. Stekler Research Program on Forecasting (2021) View citations (4)

2023

4. Estimates of Cost-Price Passthrough from Business Survey Data
   Staff Reports, Federal Reserve Bank of New York View citations (1)
   Also in FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2023) View citations (1)
   Working Papers, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (2023) View citations (1)
   Working Papers, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (2023) View citations (1)
5. How Do Firms Adjust Prices in a High Inflation Environment?
   Liberty Street Economics, Federal Reserve Bank of New York View citations (1)
6. 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) View citations (1) (2023)
7. The shift to remote work lessens wage-growth pressure
   LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library
   Also in CEP Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE (2023)
   FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2022) View citations (10)
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2022) View citations (9)
   POID Working Papers, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE (2022) View citations (4)
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2022) View citations (11)

2022

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

2021

9. COVID-19 Is a Persistent Reallocation Shock
   SocArXiv, Center for Open Science View citations (30)
   Also in Working Papers, Becker Friedman Institute for Research In Economics (2021) View citations (35)
   FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2021) View citations (25)
   See also Journal Article COVID-19 Is a Persistent Reallocation Shock, AEA Papers and Proceedings, American Economic Association (2021) View citations (35) (2021)
10. 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

11. Economic Uncertainty Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (312)
    Also in Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers), HAL (2020) View citations (217)
    Bank of England working papers, Bank of England (2020) View citations (308)
    Discussion Papers, University of Nottingham, Centre for Finance, Credit and Macroeconomics (CFCM) (2020) View citations (305)
    Post-Print, HAL (2020) View citations (217)
    FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2020) View citations (201)
    Working Papers, Becker Friedman Institute for Research In Economics (2020) View citations (302)
    See also Journal Article Economic uncertainty before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier (2020) View citations (238) (2020)
12. 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 (24) (2022)
13. The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Business Expectations
    FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta View citations (5)
    Also in Working Papers, The George Washington University, Department of Economics, H. O. Stekler Research Program on Forecasting (2020) View citations (6)
    See also Journal Article The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on business expectations, International Journal of Forecasting, Elsevier (2022) View citations (23) (2022)

2016

14. 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

15. 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)
16. 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

17. 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 (32)
18. 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

19. 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
2. Tell Me Something I Don't Already Know: Learning in Low‐ and High‐Inflation Settings
   Econometrica, 2025, 93, (1), 229-264 View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper Tell me something I don’t already know: learning in low and high-inflation settings, Working Paper Series (2024) View citations (2) (2024)
3. Unit cost expectations: Firms’ perspectives on inflation
   European Economic Review, 2025, 174, (C)

2023

4. The impact of supply chain disruptions on business expectations during the pandemic
   Energy Economics, 2023, 126, (C) View citations (1)
   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

5. Access to Credit for Small and Minority-Owned Businesses
   Economic Commentary, 2022, 2022, (04), 6
6. Pandemic-Era Uncertainty
   JRFM, 2022, 15, (8), 1-14 View citations (7)
   See also Working Paper Pandemic-Era Uncertainty, IZA Discussion Papers (2022) View citations (7) (2022)
7. Surveying business uncertainty
   Journal of Econometrics, 2022, 231, (1), 282-303 View citations (24)
   See also Working Paper Surveying Business Uncertainty, FRB Atlanta Working Paper (2020) View citations (64) (2020)
8. The Impact of the Pandemic on US Businesses: New Results from the Annual Business Survey
   Policy Hub, 2022, 2022, (3), 13
9. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on business expectations
   International Journal of Forecasting, 2022, 38, (2), 529-544 View citations (23)
   See also Working Paper The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Business Expectations, FRB Atlanta Working Paper (2020) View citations (5) (2020)

2021

10. COVID-19 Is a Persistent Reallocation Shock
    AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2021, 111, 287-91 View citations (35)
    See also Working Paper COVID-19 Is a Persistent Reallocation Shock, SocArXiv (2021) View citations (30) (2021)

2020

11. Economic uncertainty before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
    Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 191, (C) View citations (238)
    See also Working Paper Economic Uncertainty Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic, NBER Working Papers (2020) View citations (312) (2020)

2019

12. 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

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

2012

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

2011

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

2010

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

2007

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