Selected Policy Writing and Conversations

Conversations

•  Discussing the economy and monetary policy with Federal Reserve Vice Chair Philip Jefferson at UVA Darden, October 1, 2026  

   His full remarks are on the Federal Reserve Board website;  Synopsis in Philip Jefferson on AI, Inflation & Fed Credibility | Darden Report 

   Watch his remarks and the conversation here

  Selected coverage:   Bloomberg (a),  Bloomberg (b),  Wall Street Journal,  Reuter,  Financial Times,  CNBC,    Yahoo Finance,   

                                       The Hill, USNews, TradingView, Investing, MorningStar, FundClarivo, CapitalAvero, CFO Drive, BigGoFinance,  

                                       AOL,  Crypto News,  TokenPost, IndexBox, The Economic Times, InvestingLive, Asia Business Daily, The Herald.     

• Discussing whether bilateral tension really matters for economic activities with Steven J. Davis, Hoover Institution Workshop on Using Text as Data in Policy Analysis, Stanford University, September 2024.

    YouTube video: US-China: Using Text As Data In Policy Analysis | Hoover Institution 

Writings

• “The Fed's Inaugural Conference on the International Roles of the U.S. Dollar,” with Ricardo Correa, Linda S. Goldberg, and Robert Lerman, FEDS Notes, 2022.  Also available in The New York Fed Liberty Street Economics. 

• “Taxonomy of Global Risk, Uncertainty, and Volatility Measures,” with Deepa Datta, Juan M. Londono, Daniel Beltran, Thiago Ferreira, Matteo Iacoviello, Mohammad R. Jahan-Parvar, Canlin Li, Marius Rodriguez, and John Rogers, IFDP, 2017.

• "Measuring Cross Country Monetary Policy Uncertainty," with Lucas Husted and John Rogers.

•  “Do Financial Market Frictions Affect Executive Compensation?" IFDP Notes, 2015.

• Market integration in the People’s Republic of China,” with Qingqing Chen, Chor-ching Goh, and Lixin Colin Xu, Asian Development Review, 2011.