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Homepage:http://www.rich.frb.org/research/economists/
Phone:804-697-8262
Postal address:Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond P.O. Box 27622 Richmond VA 23261
Workplace:Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, (more information at EDIRC)

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Working Papers

2024

  1. The Relationship Between Inflation and the Distribution of Relative Price Changes
    Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Downloads

2022

  1. Relative Price Shocks and Inflation
    Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Downloads View citations (3)

2019

  1. Investigating Nonneutrality in a State-Dependent Pricing Model with Firm-Level Productivity Shocks
    Working Papers, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Downloads View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article INVESTIGATING NONNEUTRALITY IN A STATE‐DEPENDENT PRICING MODEL WITH FIRM‐LEVEL PRODUCTIVITY SHOCKS, International Economic Review, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association (2020) Downloads View citations (5) (2020)

2018

  1. Inflation and Real Activity with Firm Level Productivity Shocks
    Working Papers, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Downloads View citations (3)
    Also in 2009 Meeting Papers, Society for Economic Dynamics (2009) Downloads View citations (11)
    Working Papers, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia (2013) Downloads View citations (6)

2014

  1. Monetary Policy and Global Equilibria in an Economy with Capital
    2014 Meeting Papers, Society for Economic Dynamics Downloads View citations (1)
  2. Payment Choice and the Future of Currency: Insights from Two Billion Retail Transactions
    Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Downloads View citations (13)

2012

  1. Large excess reserves in the U.S.: a view from the cross-section of banks
    Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Downloads View citations (4)

2011

  1. Discretionary monetary policy in the Calvo model
    Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Downloads View citations (9)
    Also in Research Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (2010) Downloads View citations (6)

    See also Journal Article Discretionary monetary policy in the Calvo model, Quantitative Economics, Econometric Society (2019) Downloads (2019)

2009

  1. The optimal rate of inflation with trending relative prices
    Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Downloads View citations (4)
    See also Journal Article The Optimal Rate of Inflation with Trending Relative Prices, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Blackwell Publishing (2011) Downloads View citations (8) (2011)

2005

  1. Sychronization and Staggering in a Model of State-Dependent Pricing
    Computing in Economics and Finance 2005, Society for Computational Economics

2004

  1. An inquiry into the existence and uniqueness of equilibrium with state-dependent pricing
    Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Downloads View citations (10)
  2. Monetary discretion, pricing complementarity and dynamic multiple equilibria
    CFS Working Paper Series, Center for Financial Studies (CFS) Downloads View citations (98)
    Also in Working Paper Series, European Central Bank (2004) Downloads View citations (99)
    Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (2004) Downloads View citations (95)
    International Finance Discussion Papers, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.) (2004) Downloads View citations (69)
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2003) Downloads View citations (5)

    See also Journal Article Monetary Discretion, Pricing Complementarity, and Dynamic Multiple Equilibria, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College (2004) Downloads View citations (96) (2004)

2003

  1. Fiscal policy and regional inflation in a currency union
    Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Downloads View citations (10)
    See also Journal Article Fiscal policy and regional inflation in a currency union, Journal of International Economics, Elsevier (2008) Downloads View citations (32) (2008)
  2. Real implications of the zero bound on nominal interest rates
    Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Downloads View citations (6)
    Also in Computing in Economics and Finance 1999, Society for Computational Economics (1999) Downloads View citations (6)

    See also Journal Article Real Implications of the Zero Bound on Nominal Interest Rates, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Blackwell Publishing (2005) View citations (83) (2005)

2002

  1. Optimal Monetary Policy
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations (31)
    Also in Working Papers, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia (2002) Downloads View citations (56)
    Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (2000) Downloads View citations (39)
    Working Papers, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia (2001) Downloads View citations (2)

    See also Journal Article Optimal Monetary Policy, The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd (2003) Downloads View citations (267) (2003)
  2. Regional inflation in a currency union: fiscal policy vs. fundamentals
    Working Paper Series, European Central Bank Downloads View citations (42)
    Also in International Finance Discussion Papers, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.) (2002) Downloads View citations (34)

2001

  1. The pitfalls of discretionary monetary policy
    Working Papers, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Downloads View citations (2)
  2. The pitfalls of monetary discretion
    Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Downloads View citations (5)

1999

  1. Does state-dependent pricing imply coordination failure?
    Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Downloads View citations (3)

1997

  1. State-dependent pricing and the dynamics of business cycles
    Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Downloads View citations (18)

1996

  1. Inflation Targeting in a St. Louis Model of the 21st Century
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations (295)
    See also Journal Article Inflation Targeting in a St. Louis Model of the 21st Century, Review, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (2013) Downloads View citations (1) (2013)

Journal Articles

2024

  1. A Model-Based Perspective on Inflation and the Distribution of Relative Price Changes
    Richmond Fed Economic Brief, 2024, 24, (30) Downloads
  2. Inflation and Relative Price Changes Since the Onset of the Pandemic
    Richmond Fed Economic Brief, 2024, 24, (09) Downloads

2023

  1. A Small Contribution to Measuring the Lags in Monetary Policy Transmission
    Richmond Fed Economic Brief, 2023, 23, (30) Downloads
  2. Detecting Inflation Instability
    Richmond Fed Economic Brief, 2023, 23, (11) Downloads

2022

  1. Anticipated FOMC Policy, Inflation and Credibility
    Richmond Fed Economic Brief, 2022, 22, (37) Downloads
  2. Relative Price Changes Are Unlikely to Account for Recent High Inflation
    Richmond Fed Economic Brief, 2022, 22, (10) Downloads View citations (1)

2021

  1. How Broad-Based Is the Recent High Inflation?
    Richmond Fed Economic Brief, 2021, 21, (30) Downloads
  2. What Does the FOMC's Shift in Fed Funds Rate Target Language Mean?
    Richmond Fed Economic Brief, 2021, 21, (22) Downloads

2020

  1. INVESTIGATING NONNEUTRALITY IN A STATE‐DEPENDENT PRICING MODEL WITH FIRM‐LEVEL PRODUCTIVITY SHOCKS
    International Economic Review, 2020, 61, (1), 159-188 Downloads View citations (5)
    See also Working Paper Investigating Nonneutrality in a State-Dependent Pricing Model with Firm-Level Productivity Shocks, Working Papers (2019) Downloads View citations (1) (2019)

2019

  1. Discretionary monetary policy in the Calvo model
    Quantitative Economics, 2019, 10, (1), 387-418 Downloads
    See also Working Paper Discretionary monetary policy in the Calvo model, Working Paper (2011) Downloads View citations (9) (2011)

2018

  1. Editors introduction: The renewal of the Canadian inflation-control target
    Canadian Journal of Economics, 2018, 51, (3), 799-801 Downloads
    Also in Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, 2018, 51, (3), 799-801 (2018) Downloads
  2. Have Yield Curve Inversions Become More Likely?
    Richmond Fed Economic Brief, 2018, (December) Downloads View citations (1)
  3. The Decline in Currency Use at a National Retail Chain
    Economic Quarterly, 2018, (2Q), 53-77 Downloads

2017

  1. What Two Billion Retail Transactions Reveal about Consumers’ Choice of Payments
    Richmond Fed Economic Brief, 2017, (April) Downloads

2016

  1. Consumer Payment Choice in the Fifth District: Learning from a Retail Chain
    Economic Quarterly, 2016, (1Q), 51-78 Downloads
  2. How Did Short-Term Market Rates React to Liftoff?
    Richmond Fed Economic Brief, 2016, (September) Downloads
  3. Payment choice and currency use: Insights from two billion retail transactions
    Journal of Monetary Economics, 2016, 84, (C), 94-115 Downloads View citations (53)

2015

  1. Large Excess Reserves in the United States: A View from the Cross-Section of Banks
    International Journal of Central Banking, 2015, 11, (1), 251-289 Downloads View citations (34)
  2. Relative Price Changes and the Optimal Inflation Rate
    Economic Quarterly, 2015, (3Q), 245-274 Downloads View citations (1)

2013

  1. Federal Reserve Interdistrict Settlement
    Economic Quarterly, 2013, (2Q), 117-141 Downloads View citations (9)
  2. Inflation Targeting in a St. Louis Model of the 21st Century
    Review, 2013, (Nov), 543-574 Downloads View citations (1)
    Also in Review, 1996, 78, (May), 83-107 (1996) Downloads View citations (104)
    Proceedings, 1996, 78, (May), 83-107 (1996) Downloads View citations (103)

    See also Working Paper Inflation Targeting in a St. Louis Model of the 21st Century, NBER Working Papers (1996) Downloads View citations (295) (1996)

2012

  1. A citizen's guide to unconventional monetary policy
    Richmond Fed Economic Brief, 2012, (Dec) Downloads

2011

  1. Housing and the Great Recession: a VAR accounting exercise
    Economic Quarterly, 2011, 97, (1Q), 45-66 Downloads
  2. K-core inflation
    Economic Quarterly, 2011, 97, (4Q), 415-430 Downloads
  3. The Optimal Rate of Inflation with Trending Relative Prices
    Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2011, 43, (2‐3), 355-384 Downloads View citations (8)
    Also in Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2011, 43, 355-384 (2011) View citations (22)

    See also Working Paper The optimal rate of inflation with trending relative prices, Working Paper (2009) Downloads View citations (4) (2009)

2010

  1. Excess reserves and the new challenges for monetary policy
    Richmond Fed Economic Brief, 2010, (Mar) Downloads View citations (4)
  2. Monetary policy and global equilibria in a production economy
    Economic Quarterly, 2010, 96, (4Q), 317-337 Downloads View citations (4)

2008

  1. Fiscal policy and regional inflation in a currency union
    Journal of International Economics, 2008, 74, (2), 384-401 Downloads View citations (32)
    See also Working Paper Fiscal policy and regional inflation in a currency union, Working Paper (2003) Downloads View citations (10) (2003)
  2. Nominal frictions, relative price adjustment, and the limits to monetary policy
    Economic Quarterly, 2008, 94, (Sum), 219-233 Downloads View citations (4)
  3. Steady-state equilibrium with state-dependent pricing
    Journal of Monetary Economics, 2008, 55, (2), 383-405 Downloads View citations (8)

2007

  1. Comment on: "Reconsidering the natural rate hypothesis in a new Keynesian framework," by Andrew Levin and Tack Yun
    Journal of Monetary Economics, 2007, 54, (5), 1366-1371 Downloads
  2. Currency quality and changes in the behavior of depository institutions
    Economic Quarterly, 2007, 93, (Fall), 361-391 Downloads
  3. The frequency and costs of individual price adjustment
    Managerial and Decision Economics, 2007, 28, (6), 531-552 Downloads View citations (47)
    Also in Economic Quarterly, 2000, (Fall), 1-22 (2000) Downloads View citations (31)

2006

  1. Bond price premiums
    Economic Quarterly, 2006, 92, (Fall), 317-336 Downloads View citations (1)

2005

  1. Inflation and changing expenditure shares
    Economic Quarterly, 2005, 91, (Win), 1-20 Downloads View citations (1)
  2. Real Implications of the Zero Bound on Nominal Interest Rates
    Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2005, 37, (2), 273-96 View citations (83)
    See also Working Paper Real implications of the zero bound on nominal interest rates, Working Paper (2003) Downloads View citations (6) (2003)
  3. Trend inflation, firm-specific capital, and sticky prices
    Economic Quarterly, 2005, 91, (Fall), 57-83 Downloads View citations (23)

2004

  1. Monetary Discretion, Pricing Complementarity, and Dynamic Multiple Equilibria
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2004, 119, (4), 1513-1553 Downloads View citations (96)
    Also in Proceedings, 2003 (2003) Downloads View citations (10)

    See also Working Paper Monetary discretion, pricing complementarity and dynamic multiple equilibria, CFS Working Paper Series (2004) Downloads View citations (98) (2004)

2003

  1. Boom and bust in telecommunications
    Economic Quarterly, 2003, 89, (Fall), 1-24 Downloads View citations (8)
  2. Optimal Monetary Policy
    The Review of Economic Studies, 2003, 70, (4), 825-860 Downloads View citations (267)
    See also Working Paper Optimal Monetary Policy, NBER Working Papers (2002) Downloads View citations (31) (2002)
  3. Potential consequences of linear approximation in economics
    Economic Quarterly, 2003, 89, (Win), 51-67 Downloads View citations (8)

2001

  1. A primer on optimal monetary policy with staggered price-setting
    Economic Quarterly, 2001, (Fall), 27-52 Downloads View citations (21)

1999

  1. State-Dependent Pricing and the General Equilibrium Dynamics of Money and Output
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1999, 114, (2), 655-690 Downloads View citations (663)
  2. Sticky prices, marginal cost, and the behavior of inflation
    Economic Quarterly, 1999, (Fall), 29-48 Downloads View citations (119)

1998

  1. Staggered price setting and the zero bound on nominal interest rates
    Economic Quarterly, 1998, (Fall), 1-24 Downloads View citations (60)

1997

  1. Zero inflation and the Friedman rule: a welfare comparison
    Economic Quarterly, 1997, (Fall), 1-21 Downloads View citations (25)

Chapters

1999

  1. What Should the Monetary Authority Do When Prices Are Sticky?
    A chapter in Monetary Policy Rules, 1999, pp 349-404 Downloads View citations (302)
 
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