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Research Projects and Publications

(The current research is supported by a NSF Grant SES  0617803)

Working Papers

Inference for VARs Identified with Sign Restrictions
Joint with Hyungsik Roger Moon (USC), Eleonora Granziera (USC), and Mihye Lee (USC)
This version: November 2009 (Still Preliminary)
Financial Frictions, Aggregation, and the Lucas Critique
Joint with Yongsung Chang (Rochester), and Sun-Bin Kim (Yonsei University)
This version: November 2009 (Still Preliminary)
"Methods versus Substance: Measuring the Effects of Technology Shocks"
Joint with Jose-Victor Rios Rull, Cristina Fuentes-Albero, Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis, and Maxym Kryshko (Penn)
This version: August 2009, FRB Minneapolis Staff Report 433, NBER Working Paper 15375, CEPR Discussion Paper DP 7474
GAUSS Programs
Sticky Prices versus Monetary Frictions: An Estimation of Policy Trade-offs
Joint with S. Boragan Aruoba (University of Maryland)
This version: April 2009
Available as NBER Working Paper 14870. An earlier version circulated under the title "Insights from an Estimated Search-Based Monetary Model with Nominal Rigidities."
"Bayesian and Frequentist Inference in Partially Identified Models"
Joint with Hyungsik Roger Moon (USC).
Also available as NBER Working Paper 14882. An earlier (incomplete) version of the paper circulated under the title "A Bayesian Look at Partially-Identified Models."
This version: January 2009.


Coming Soon (Hopefully)

 
"Priors from Frequency-Domain Dummy Observations"
Joint with Marco Del Negro (FRB New York) and Francis X. Diebold (University of Pennsylvania)


Refereed Publications
 

"DSGE Model-Based Forecasting of Non-Modelled Variables"
Joint with Keith Sill (FRB Philadelphia), and Maxym Kryshko (Penn)
International Journal of Forecasting, forthcoming July 2010
Also available as NBER Working Paper 14872.
Estimation with Overidentifying Inequality Moment Conditions
Joint with Hyungsik Roger Moon (USC)
Journal of Econometrics, 153(2), 2009, 136-154.
An earlier version of the paper circulated under the title  "Empirical Likelihood Estimation Based on Inequality Constraints."
GAUSS Programs, Technical Appendix
Monetary Policy with Potentially Misspecified Models
Joint with Marco Del Negro (FRB New York)
American Economic Review, 99(4), 2009, 1415-1450. 
Previous version available as NBER Working Paper 13099
Technical Appendix
Forming Priors for DSGE Models (and How it Affects the Assessment of Nominal Rigidities
Joint with Marco Del Negro (FRB New York)
Journal of Monetary Economics, 55(7), 2008, 1191-1208
Matlab software: Read me, Data, Programs
Non-stationary Hours in a DSGE Model
Joint with Yongsung Chang (Seoul National University) and Taeyoung Doh (Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City),
Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 39(6), 2007, 1357-1373.
This Version (substantially revised): April 2006
Software: GAUSS programs
Bayesian Analysis of DSGE Models
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07474930701220071
Joint with Sungbae An (Singapore Management University), 
Econometric Reviews,
26(2-4), 2007, 113-172, with discussions and rejoinder.
An earlier version appeared as CEPR Discussion Paper DP5207
Software: GAUSS programs to analyze DSGE model, GAUSS programs to analyze DSGE-VARs, Matlab programs for nonlinear analysis.

Lecture Notes for Estimation and Evaluation of DSGE Models
On the Fit and Forecasting Performance of New Keynesian Models
Joint with Marco Del Negro (FRB New York), Frank Smets (ECB), and Rafael Wouters (National Bank of Belgium),
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics , with discussions and rejoinder, 25(2), 2007, 123-162. The paper was presented as the Invited JBES Lecture at the 2006 Joint Statistical Meetings of the American Statistical Assocication in Seattle.
Do Central Banks Respond to Exchange Rates? A Structural Investigation
Joint with Thomas Lubik (FRB Richmond),
Journal of Monetary Economics, 54(4), 2007, 1069-1087.
"Learning and Monetary Policy Shifts,"
Review of Economic Dynamics, 8(2), 2005, 392-419.
Gauss Programs
 
"VAR Forecasting under Misspecification,"
Journal of Econometrics, 128, 2005, 99-136.
Gauss Programs for Monte Carlo Study
 
"Testing for Indeterminacy: An Application to U.S. Monetary Policy,"
joint with Thomas Lubik (FRB Richmond),
American Economic Review, 94(1), 2004, 190-217.
Technical Appendix, Gauss Programs

The July 2002 version of the paper appeared in the 
Proceedings of the 2002 North American Summer Meetings of the Econometric Society,
edited by David K. Levine, William Zame, Roger Farmer, and Patrick Kehoe.
 
"Priors from General Equilibrium Models for VARs,"
joint with Marco Del Negro (FRB New York), 
International Economic Review, 45(2), 2004 643-673.
Click HERE to download GAUSS code to implement the DSGE Prior
 
"Labor-Supply Shifts and Economic Fluctuations,"
joint with Yongsung Chang (Seoul National University),
Journal of Monetary Economics, 50(8), 2003, 1751-1768.
Technical Appendix, Software
"Computing Sunspot Equilibria in Linear Rational Expectations Models,"
joint with Thomas Lubik (FRB Richmond),
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 28(2), 2003, 273-285.
Technical Appendix, Software
"Minimum Distance Estimation of Nonstationary Time Series Models,"
joint with Hyungsik Roger Moon (USC),
Econometric Theory, 18(6), 2002, 1385-1407.
Calculations for Examples
"Learning-by-Doing as Propagation Mechanism,"
joint with Yongsung Chang (Seoul National University) and Joao Gomes (Wharton School),
American Economic Review, 92(5), 2002, 1498-1520.
Click HERE to download the GAUSS code for the DSGE model evaluation.
"Loss Function-based Evaluation of DSGE Models,"
Journal of Applied Econometrics, 15(6), 2000, 645-670. 
Click HERE to download the GAUSS code for the DSGE model evaluation.
The READ ME file contains a brief description of the procedures that are available in the ZIP file.
"Quantile Spline Models for Global Temperature Change," 
joint with Roger Koenker (University of Illinois), Climatic Change, 28, 1994, pp. 395-404.

Other Publications

 
"DSGE Model-Based Estimation of the New Keynesian Phillips Curve"
FRB Richmond Economic Quarterly, Fall 2008, 397-433.
"Inflation Dynamics in a Small Open Economy Model under Inflation Targeting: Some Evidence from Chile
Joint with Marco Del Negro (FRB New York)
This Version, March 2008
Forthcoming in: "Monetary Policy Under Uncertainty and Learning," Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel and Carl E. Walsh (editors), 11th Annual Conference of the Central Bank of Chile.
Comment on "Monetary Policy under Uncertainty in an Estimated Model with Labor Market Frictions" by Luca Sala, Ulf Soderstrom, and Antonella Trigari
Journal of Monetary Economics (Carnegie Rochester Conference Series), 55(5), 2008, 1007-1010.
Comment on "How Structural are Structural Parameters" by Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde and Juan Rubio-Ramirez
2007 NBER Macroeconomics Annual, 2008, MIT Press, 149-163
This Version: May 2007
Bayesian Methods in Macroeconometrics
S. N. Durlauf and L. E. Blume, The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, forthcoming, Palgrave Macmillan, reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan. This article is taken from the author's original manuscript and has not been reviewed or edited. The definitive published version of this extract may be found in the complete New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics in print and online, forthcoming.
A Reply to Comments by A Beyer and R Farmer on Lubik and Schorfheide (2004, AER)
Joint with Thomas Lubik (FRB Richmond),
American Economic Review, 97(1), 2007, 530-533.
"How Good is What You've Got? DSGE-VAR as a Toolkit for Evaluating DSGE Models"
joint with Marco Del Negro (FRB New York),
FRB Atlanta Economic Review, 91(2), 2006.
"The Econometrics of Macroeconomics, Finance, and the Interface,"
joint with F.X. Diebold (Penn), R.T. Engle (NYU), C. Favero (IGIER), G.M. Gallo
Journal of Econometrics, 131(1-2), 2006, 1-2.
A Bayesian Look at New Open Economy Macroeconomics
Joint with Thomas Lubik (FRB Richmond)
NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2005, edited by Mark Gertler and Kenneth Rogoff
This version: May 16, 2005
Data, GAUSS Programs, and DYNARE mod-files
Preliminary Draft for NBER Macro Annual Conference: March 22, 2005
 
"Policy Predictions if the Model Doesn't Fit,"
joint with Marco Del Negro (FRB Atlanta),
Journal of the European Economic Association, 3(2-3), 2005, 434-443.
GAUSS programs
 
"Take Your Model Bowling,"
joint with Marco Del Negro (FRB New York),
FRB Atlanta Economic Review, 88(4), 2003.
 
"Loss Function Estimation of Forecasting Models: A Bayesian Perspective,"
American Statistical Association, 1999 Proceedings of the Section on Bayesian Statistics, 1999.
"Economic Impact of Cuts in Defense Spending",
ACDIS Occasional Papers, April 1993, University of Illinois, Urbana and Champaign.

 

Book Reviews

"Financial Econometrics" by Christian Gourieroux and Joann Jasiak, Princeton University Press. Econometric Theory, vol. 19(2), 2003, 401-409.
 
"Forecasting Economic Time Series" by Michael Clements and David Hendry, Cambridge University Press.  Econometric Theory, 16(3), 2000, 441-450.