Todd E. Clark
Vice President and Economist
Research Department
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
925 Grand Boulevard
Kansas City, MO 64198
Email:
todd.e.clark@kc.frb.org

Biography

Curriculum Vitae (PDF, 111K)

Publications in journals and books

Research Working Papers

Economic Review articles

Other Federal Reserve publications

Todd Clark is a Vice President and Economist in the Economic Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.  He joined the department in 1992. A native of Indiana, Todd received a bachelor's degree in economics and mathematics from Wabash College in 1985 and a doctorate in economics from the University of Michigan in 1992. He has published research on a variety of topics, including the sources of business cycles in different countries and regions of the United States, the relationship between inflation and long-term growth, the relationship between producer and consumer prices, the measurement of inflation, and the evaluation of forecasts. Todd is currently an associate editor of the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking

Publications in professional journals and books

"Improving Forecast Accuracy by Combining Recursive and Rolling Forecasts," with Michael W. McCracken, International Economic Review, forthcoming.

"Averaging Forecasts from VARs with Uncertain Instabilities," with Michael W. McCracken, Journal of Applied Econometrics, forthcoming.

"Forecasting with Small Macroeconomic VARs in the Presence of Instabilities," with Michael W. McCracken, Forecasting in the Presence of Structural Breaks and Model Uncertainty, D. Rapach and M. Wohar, ed., Elsevier.

"Approximately Normal Tests for Equal Predictive Accuracy in Nested Models," with Kenneth D. West, Journal of Econometrics, May 2007.
    
       "Appendix Tables (PDF, 192K)

"Using Out-of-Sample Mean Squared Prediction Errors to Test the Martingale Difference Hypothesis," with Kenneth D. West, Journal of Econometrics, November 2006.

"The Predictive Content of the Output Gap for Inflation: Resolving In-Sample and Out-of-Sample Evidence," with Michael McCracken, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, August 2006.

"Disaggregate Evidence on the Persistence of Consumer Price Inflation," Journal of Applied Econometrics, July / August 2006.

"Estimating Equilibrium Real Interest Rates in Real Time," with Sharon Kozicki, North American Journal of Economics and Finance, December 2005.

"Evaluating Direct Multi-Step Forecasts," with Michael McCracken, Econometric Reviews, October 2005.
    
    Technical Appendix (PDF, 218K)

"The Power of Tests of Predictive Ability in the Presence of Structural Breaks," with Michael W. McCracken, Journal of Econometrics,  January 2005.
    
     Technical Appendix (PDF, 287K)

"Can Out-of-Sample Forecast Comparisons Help Prevent Overfitting?" Journal of Forecasting, March 2004.

"Tests of Equal Forecast Accuracy and Encompassing for Nested Models," with Michael W. McCracken, Journal of Econometrics, November 2001.
     
     Technical Appendix (PDF, 346K)
     
     RATS procedure for generating forecasts and tests (ZIP, 356K)
     
     Tables of test critical values (EXCEL, 438K)

"Borders and Business Cycles," with Eric van Wincoop, Journal of International Economics, October 2001.

"The Sources of Fluctuations Within and Across Countries," with Kwanho Shin, Intranational Macroeconomics, G. Hess and E. van Wincoop, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2000.

"Forecasting An Aggregate of Cointegrated Disaggregates," Journal of Forecasting, January 2000.

"Finite-Sample Properties of Tests of Equal Forecast Accuracy," Journal of Forecasting, December 1999.

"The Responses of Prices at Different Stages of Production to Monetary Policy Shocks," The Review of Economics and Statistics, August 1999.

"Employment Fluctuations in U.S. Regions and Industries: The Roles of National, Region-Specific, and Industry-Specific Shocks," Journal of Labor Economics, January 1998.

"Cross-Country Evidence on Long-Run Growth and Inflation," Economic Inquiry, January 1997.

"Small Sample Properties of Estimators of Non-Linear Models of Covariance Structure," Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, July 1996.

"Rents and Prices of Housing Across Areas of the U.S.:  A Cross-Section Examination of the Present Value Model," Regional Science and Urban Economics, April 1995.

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Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Economic Review articles

"Has the Behavior of Inflation and Long-Term Inflation Expectations Changed?" with Taisuke Nakata   (Summary | Article  PDF 1,024K)

"The Trend Growth Rate of Employment: Past, Present, and Future," with Taisuke Nakata,  First Quarter 2006.  (Summary | Article PDF 258K)

"An Evaluation of the Decline in Goods Inflation," Second Quarter 2004.  (Summary | Article PDF 302K)

"Comparing Measures of Core Inflation," Second Quarter 2001.  (Summary | Article PDF 122K)

"A Comparison of the CPI and the PCE Price Index," Third Quarter 1999.  (Summary | Article PDF 166K)

"Progress Toward Price Stability: A 1997 Inflation Report," First Quarter 1998.  (Summary | Article PDF 73K)

"U.S. Inflation Developments in 1996," First Quarter 1997.  (Summary | Article PDF 160K)

"U.S. Inflation Developments in 1995," First Quarter 1996. (Summary | Article PDF 180K)

"Do Producer Prices Lead Consumer Prices?" Third Quarter 1995. (Summary | Article PDF 153 K)

"Nominal GDP Targeting Rules: Can They Stabilize the Economy?" Third Quarter 1994. ( Article PDF 120 K)

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Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Research Working Papers

"Tests of Equal Predictive Ability with Real-Time Data," with Michael W. McCracken, RWP 07-06.  (PDF,993K | Abstract)

"Averaging Forecasts from VARs with Uncertain Instabilities," with Michael W. McCracken, RWP 06-12.  (PDF,1.81 mb | Abstract)

"Forecasting with Small Macroeconomic VARs in the Presence of Instabilities," with Michael W. McCracken, RWP 06-09.  (PDF,1.41 | Abstract)

"Combining Forecasts from Nested Models," with Michael W. McCracken, RWP 06-02.  (PDF,1.31mb | Abstract)

"Approximately Normal Tests for Equal Predictive Accuracy in Nested Models," with Kenneth D. West, RWP 05-05.  (PDF, 457K | Abstract)

"Improving Forecast Accuracy by Combining Recursive and Rolling Forecasts," with Michael W. McCracken, RWP 04-10.  (PDF, 402K | Abstract)

     Technical Appendix (PDF, 154K)

"Estimating Equilibrium Real Interest Rates in Real Time,"  with Sharon Kozicki, RWP 04-08.  (PDF, 742K | Abstract)

     Real-time CBO data used in the article (EXCEL, 144K)

"Disaggregate Evidence on the Persistence of Consumer Price Inflation," RWP 03-11.  (PDF, 495K | Abstract)

"The Predictive Content of the Output Gap for Inflation: Resolving In-Sample and Out-of-Sample Evidence," with Michael McCracken, RWP 03-06.  (PDF, 537K | Abstract)

"Forecast-Based Model Selection in the Presence of Structural Breaks," with Michael McCracken, RWP 02-05.   (PDF, 369K | Abstract)

"The Sources of Fluctuations Within and Across Countries," with Kwanho Shin, RWP 98-04.   (PDF, 589K | Abstract)

"Do Producer Prices Help Predict Consumer Prices?" RWP 97-09.  (Abstract Only)

Other Federal Reserve publications

"Sources of New York Employment Fluctuations: Commentary," Economic Policy Review, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, February 1997.  (PDF, 33.52K)

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