Research Associates

Co-Authored Publications

Research Associates' names are in bold.

Economic Review articles

• Çakır Melek, Nida, and Alex Gallin. 2024. The Future of U.S. Productivity: Cautious Optimism amid Uncertainty. Vol. 109, no. 9.
• Jacewitz, Stefan A., and Chris Acker. 2024. A Method for Estimating the Price of Stablecoin Insurance. Vol. 109, no. 4.
• Sengupta, Rajdeep, and Brendan Laliberte. 2024. Why Do Net Interest Margins Behave Differently Across Banks as Interest Rates Rise? Vol. 109, no. 1.
• Tuzemen, Didem, and Deepak Venkatasubramanian. 2023. A Strong Labor Market Has Narrowed Gaps in Participation and Employment between Black and White Non-College Men. Vol. 9, no. 1.
• Matschke, Johannes, Alice von Ende-Becker, and Sai A. Sattiraju. 2023. Capital Flows and Monetary Policy in Emerging Markets around Fed Tightening Cycles. Vol. 108, no. 4.
• Marsh, W. Blake, and Brendan Laliberte. 2023. The Implications of Unrealized Losses for Banks. Vol. 108, no. 2.
• Doh, Taeyoung, and Luca Van der Meer. 2023. The Employment Effect of an Increase in the National Minimum Wage: Review of International Evidence. Vol. 108, no. 2.
• Brown, Jason, and Colton Tousey. 2023. The Shifting Expectations for Work from Home. Vol. 108, no. 2.
• Glover, Andrew, José Mustre-del-Río, and Alice von Ende-Becker. 2023. How Much Have Record Corporate Profits Contributed to Recent Inflation? Vol. 108, no. 1.
• Glover, Andrew, José Mustre-del-Río, and Emily Pollard. 2022. Lifetime Earnings Differences across Black and White Individuals: Years Worked Matter. Vol. 108, no. 1.
• Howes, Cooper, and Alice von Ende Becker. 2022. Monetary Policy and Intangible Investment. Vol. 107, no. 2.
• Brown, Jason, and Colton Tousey. 2021. How the Pandemic Influenced Trends in Domestic Migration across U.S. Urban Areas. Fourth Quarter 2021.
• Nie, Jun, Alice von Ende-Becker, and Shu-Kuei X. Yang. 2021. How Did the 2018–19 U.S. Tariff Hikes Influence Household Spending? Fourth Quarter 2021.
• Brown, Jason, and Colton Tousey. 2020. Population Turnover and the Growth of Urban Areas. First Quarter 2020.
• Mustre-del-Río, José, and Emily Pollard. 2019. What Explains Lifetime Earnings Differences Across Individuals? First Quarter 2019.
• Bundick, Brent, and Emily Pollard. 2019. The Rise and Fall of College Tuition Inflation. First Quarter 2019.

Research Working Papers

• Brown, Jason P., and Colton Tousey. 2020. Death of Coal and Breath of Life: The Effect of Power Plant Closure on Local Air Quality. RWP 20-15.
• Brown, Jason P., and Colton Tousey. 2019. Rising Market Concentration and the Decline of Food Price Shock Pass-Through to Core Inflation. RWP 19-02.

Economic Bulletins

• Matschke, Johannes, and Emily Pollard. 2024. Labor Shortages in the Healthcare Sector Have Eased, Which May Soften Price Pressures
• Glover, Andrew, and Johnson Oliyide. 2024. Why Haven’t Recent Rate Increases Slowed the Economy More? Look to Unusually Low Private-Lending Spreads
• Marsh, W. Blake, Karlye Dilts Stedman, and Phillip An. 2024. Are Firms Hoarding Cash Post-Pandemic?
• Pollard, Emily. 2024. Young Workers Fuel Recovery in Jobs Requiring a High School Diploma or Less
• Brown, Jason P., and Colton Tousey. 2024. Consumer Debt is High, but Consumers Seem to Have Room to Run
• Matschke, Johannes, and Alice von Ende-Becker. 2024. Current Monetary Policy May Be Less Restrictive Than It Seems
• Tuzemen, Didem, and Emily Pollard. 2024. Foreign-Born Women Have Driven the Recent Increase in Prime-Age Women in the Labor Force
• Marsh, W. Blake, Padma Sharma, and Chris Acker. 2024. Bank Deposit Rates Haven’t Kept Pace with Yields on Other Investments, but Depositors Are Staying Anyway
• Bi, Huixin, W. Blake Marsh, and Phillip An. 2024. Corporate Interest Expenses Are Expected to Increase Further
• Marsh, W. Blake, Padma Sharma, and Brendan Laliberte. 2023. Community Bank Funding Is Getting Costlier and Riskier
• Glover, Andrew, José Mustre-del-Río, and Jalen Nichols. 2023. Corporate Profits Contributed a Lot to Inflation in 2021 but Little in 2022—A Pattern Seen in Past Economic Recoveries
• Dilts Stedman, Karlye, and Emily Pollard. 2023. Why Has Monetary Policy Tightening Not Cooled the Labor Market Enough to Quell Inflation?
• Brown, Jason P., and Colton Tousey. 2023. When the Music Stops: Slowing Wage Growth May Lead to More Delinquent Debt
• Bundick, Brent, A. Lee Smith, and Luca Van der Meer. 2023. A Tight Labor Market Could Keep Rent Inflation Elevated
• Mustre-del-Río, José, and Emily Pollard. 2023. The KC Fed LMCI Momentum Indicator Suggests Monetary Policy Is Beginning to Weigh on Labor Markets
• Çakır Melek, Nida, and Emily Pollard. 2022. Negative Sentiment toward Spending and Declining Real Incomes May Meaningfully Lower Consumption
• Glover, Andrew, José Mustre-del-Río, and Emily Pollard. 2021. KC Fed LMCI Suggests that Recent Inflation Is Not Due to the Tight Labor Market
• Glover, Andrew, José Mustre-del-Río, and Emily Pollard. 2021. KC Fed LMCI Implies the Labor Market Is Closer to a Full Recovery than the Unemployment Rate Alone Suggests
• Glover, Andrew, and Emily Pollard. 2020. Inflation Expectations Limit the Power of Negative Interest Rates
• Mustre-del-Río, José, and Emily Pollard. 2019. As Manufacturing Weakens, Consumers Pull Back
• Brown, Jason P., David Rodziewicz, and Colton Tousey. 2019. Drilling Productivity in the United States: What Lies Beneath
• Brown, Jason P., and Colton Tousey. 2018. Auto Loan Delinquency Rates Are Rising, but Mostly among Subprime Borrowers
• Mustre-del-Río, José, and Emily Pollard. 2018. Nominal Wage Rigidities and the Future Path of Wage Growth
• Bundick, Brent, Trenton Herriford, Emily Pollard, and Andrew Lee Smith. 2017. Does the Recent Decline in Household Longer-Term Inflation Expectations Signal a Loss of Confidence in the FOMC?

Technical Briefings

• Pollard, Emily. 2019. A New Approach to Industry and Occupation Recoding in the CPS. TB 19-02.
• Tousey, Colton. 2019. Federal Reserve District County Shapefiles. TB 19-01.

Featured Publications by Former RAs

• Bundick, Brent, Trenton Herriford, and A. Lee Smith. 2024. "The Term Structure of Monetary Policy Uncertainty." Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, vol. 160, March.
• Rodziewicz, David, Christopher J. Amante, Jacob Dice, and Eugene Wahl. 2022. "Housing Market Impairment from Future Sea-Level Rise Inundation." Environment Systems and Decisions, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 637–656.
• Clark, Todd E., and Stephen J. Terry. 2010. "Time Variation in the Inflation Passthrough of Energy Prices." Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, vol. 42, no. 7, pp. 1419–1433.
• Brown, Jason, Jordan Rappaport, Aaron Smalter Hall, and Maeve Maloney. 2017. How Centralized Is U.S. Metropolitan Employment? RWP 17-16.
• Foerster, Andrew, and Jason Choi. 2016. Optimal Monetary Policy Regime Switches. RWP 16-07.
• Braxton, John Carter, and Edward S. Knotek II. 2014. Consumer Debt Dynamics: Follow the Increasers. RWP 14-02.
• Doh, Taeyoung, and Michael Connolly. 2012. The State Space Representation and Estimation of a Time-Varying Parameter VAR with Stochastic Volatility. RWP 12-04.
• Van Zandweghe, Willem, and Michael Redmond. 2016. The Lasting Damage from the Financial Crisis to U.S. Productivity. Economic Review, First Quarter 2016.
• Nie, Jun, and Ethan Struby. 2011. Would Active Labor Market Policies Help Combat High U.S. Unemployment? Economic Review, Third Quarter 2011.
• Knotek II, Edward S., and Shujaat Khan. 2011. How Do Households Respond to Uncertainty Shocks? Economic Review, Second Quarter 2011.