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Office #415 Fogelman College
University of Memphis
Memphis, TN 38152
Cell: 832.858.2187
Email: alex.rzhevskyy@gmail.com

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Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Memphis

Summary
  1. Current position: Assistant Professor of Economics (Tenure Track), University of Memphis, 2008 - Present
  2. Interests: Macroeconomics/Monetary Policy Analysis, International Economics & Finance, Applied Econometrics
  3. Education: Ph.D. in Economics, University of Houston,  2008. M.A. in Economics (with Honors), EERC/KSE, 2003. M.Sc. in Physics, Odessa National University, 2001
  4. Citizenship: Ukraine (U.S. Permanent Resident)
  5. Marital Status: Married to Olena Nikolsko-Rzhevska
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Publications and Papers Under Revision
  1. "Markov Switching and Exchange Rate Predictability," with Ruxandra Prodan, 2011. International Journal of Forecasting (forthcoming) [wp version]
  2. "Monetary Policy Estimation in Real Time: Forward-Looking Taylor Rules Without Forward-Looking Data," (single-authored) 2011. Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Vol. 43, No. 5 (August)  [wp version]
  3. "Taylor Rules and the Euro," with Tanya Molodtsova and David Papell, 2011.  Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Vol. 43, No. 2–3 (March–April) [wp version]
  4. "Forecasting the End of the Global Recession: Did We Miss the Early Signs?," with Adriana Fernandez, 2011. Dallas Fed Staff Papers, No. 12, April.
  5. "Can Alternative Taylor-rule Specifications Describe the Federal Reserve Decisions?," with Adriana Fernandez and Evan F. Koenig, 2010. Journal of Policy Modeling, Volume 32, Issue 6, November-December, Pages 733-757 .
  6. "The Changing Nature of the U.S. Economic Influence in the World," with Adriana Fernandez, 2010. Journal of Policy Modeling Volume 32, Issue 2, March-April, Pages 196-209.
  7. "Taylor Rules and Real-Time Data: A Tale of Two Countries and One Exchange Rate," with Tanya Molodtsova and David Papell, 2008. Journal of Monetary Economics 55 S63-S79. [wp version]
  8. "Globalization and the Changing Nature of the U.S. Economy's Influence in the World," with Adriana Fernandez, 2008. Economic Letter, Vol. 3, No. 11, November. 
  9. "The Relative Performance of Alternative Taylor Rule Specifications," with Adriana Fernandez and Evan F. Koenig, 2008. Dallas Fed Staff Papers, No. 6, June. 
  10. "Measuring the Taylor Rule's Performance," with Adriana Fernandez, 2007. Economic Letter, Vol. 2, No. 6, June.
  11. "Crime Spillovers and Hurricane Katrina," with Andrew Hussey and Ioana Pacurar. Under 3rd revision for the Journal of Human Resources
Working Papers
  1. "A Real-Time Historical Database for the OECD," with Adriana Fernandez and Evan Koenig, 2011.
  2. "The Effects of Wage Volatility on Growth," with Michael Jetter and William Smith, 2011. Submitted.
  3. "Taylor's Rule versus Taylor Rules," with David Papell, 2011. Submitted.
  4. "Taylor Rules and the Great Inflation: Lessons from the 1970s for the Road Ahead for the Fed," with David Papell, 2010. Submitted.
  5. "Inflation Persistence and the Taylor Principle," with Christian Murray and David Papell, 2010. Submitted.
  6. "Does Trade Cause Capital to Flow? Evidence from Historical Rainfalls," with Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, 2010. NBER working paper w16034. Submitted.
  7. "Foreign Direct Investment and Export Performance in Emerging Economies: Evidence from Indian I.T. Firms," with David Kemme and Deepraj Mukherjee, 2010. Submitted.
  8. "AIDing Contraception: HIV and Recent Trends in Abortion Rates," with Andrew Hussey and Jay Walker, 2010. Submitted.
Teaching
  1. This semester: Advanced Macroeconomics I, Quantitative Economics Analysis
  2. Graduate classes taught: Advanced Macroeconomics I (syllabus), Advanced Macroeconomics II (syllabus), Advanced Quantitative Economic Analysis (syllabus), Econometrics II Applied Microeconometrics (syllabus), Applied Monetary Economics/Time Series Econometrics (Macro II) (syllabus)
  3. Undergraduate classes taught: Introduction to Macroeconomics (syllabus)
  4. Lecture notes (pdf): Macro: Consumption and Savings, Macro: Business Cycles, Macro: Monetary Policy, Applied Microeconometrics, Quantitative Economics
  5. Teaching evaluations
Work in progress
  1. "Monetary Policy Shifts and the Forward Discount Puzzle," with Michael Jetter, 2011.
  2. "The Effect of Recessions on Fiscal and Monetary Policy," with Dean Croushore.
  3. "The Comparative Performance of Alternative Out-of-sample Predictability Tests with Non-linear Models," with Yu Liu and Ruxandra Prodan, 2011.
  4. "Globalization and Inequality: Evidence from 19th Century Rainfalls," with Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Dietrich Vollrath, 2010.
References
  1. David Papell, Professor and Chairman, Department of Economics, University of Houston. Phone: 713-743-3807 Email: dpapell@uh.edu
  2. Dean Croushore, Professor and Chairman, Department of Economics, University of Richmond. Phone: 804-287-1961 Email: dcrousho@richmond.edu
  3. Christian Murray, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Houston. Phone: 713-743-3835 Email: Christian.Murray@mail.uh.edu
  4. Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Houston and NBER. Phone: 713-743-3824 Email: Sebnem.Kalemli-Ozcan@mail.uh.edu

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