Our primary faculty research groups are focused in our five core areas: applied microeconomics, econometrics, economic theory, finance, and macroeconomics. Our joint faculty includes experts from the Carey Business School and the School of Advanced International Studies.
Macroeconomics Group
Coverage includes: domestic macroeconomics, international finance, international macroeconomics, macro-financial linkages, monetary theory and policy, and time-series econometrics
- Faculty: Laurence Ball, Francesco Bianchi, Christopher Carroll, Stelios Fourakis, Olivier Jeanne, Jonathan Wright
- Joint Appointed Faculty: Carlos Vegh (School of Advanced International Studies)
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Misclassification Errors In Labor Force Statuses and the Early Identification of Economic Recessions
Accurate identification of economic recessions in a timely fashion is a major macroeconomic challenge. The so-called Sahm recession indicator (Sahm, 2019), one of the most reliable early detectors of the […]
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Missing Events in Event Studies: Identifying the Effects of Partially Measured News Surprises
Macroeconomic news announcements are elaborate and multi-dimensional. We consider a framework in which jumps in asset prices around announcements reflect both the response to observed surprises in headline numbers and […]
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The Supplemental Expenditure Poverty Measure: A New Method for Measuring Poverty
A new method of measuring poverty in the United States—based on families’ spending and easily accessible resources—finds that about eight million more people lived in poverty in 2019 than reported […]
