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Curriculum Vitae
Enrique Martínez García
International Group Head
Economic Policy Advisor
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Contact Information
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Research Department, 12th Floor
2200 N. Pearl Street
Dallas, TX 75201
United States
E-mail: emg.economics@gmail.com
Official E-mail: enrique.martinez-garcia@dal.frb.org
Department Webpage: https://www.dallasfed.org/research/economists/martinez-garcia
Phone: (+1) 214-922-5262
Fax: (+1) 214-922-5194
Biographical
Citizenship: Spain and U.S. (Dual Citizenship)
Language: Spanish and Valenciano (Native) / English (Fluent)
Fields of Interest
Major Fields: International Macroeconomics (Open Economy Macroeconomics) and Finance, Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics, Applied Econometrics
Minor Fields: Financial Stability, Asset Pricing, Real Estate Economics, Macroeconomic Forecasting, Stochastic Optimal Control and Mathematical Economics
Education
University of Wisconsin–Madison, PhD in Economics, 2007
Doctoral Dissertation: Martínez García, E. (2007), Three Essays in International Macroeconomics and Finance. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Chair: Dr. Rodolfo Manuelli
Committee Members: Dr. Charles Engel, Dr. Kenneth D. West, Dr. Menzie D. Chinn, Dr. David P. Brown (Finance Department, external)
University of Wisconsin–Madison, M.Sc. in Economics, 2004
University of Pennsylvania, MA in Economics, 2002
University of Alicante, BA in Economics (with honors), 2000
The degree of Licenciado en Economía granted by the University of Alicante has been placed within level 3 (Master) of the Spanish Higher Education Qualifications Framework (MECES) and within level 7 of the European Qualifications Framework (EQF)
Other Training Courses: Northwestern University, Advanced Workshop for Central Bankers, 2008
Work Experience
Head of International Group and Economic Policy Advisor, Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, May 2024–present
Economic Policy Advisor, Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, January 2024–April 2024
Senior Research Economist and Advisor, Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, January 2016–December 2023
Co-director of the International Housing Observatory, March 2019-present
Lead Economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas' International House Price Database and the Database of Global Economic Indicators, January 2011-present
Senior Research Economist, Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, August 2010–December 2015
Economist, Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, July 2007–August 2010
Adjunct Professor, Southern Methodist University, Monetary Theory and Policy (PhD course), Spring 2010, Spring 2013, Fall 2014, Spring 2015, and Spring 2016
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin, Macroeconomics II (PhD course) and Macroeconomic Theory (undergrad course), Spring 2012
Invited Professor, University of Alicante, Globalization and Monetary Policy (graduate-level mini-course), December 2007 and December 2008
Other Professional Experience
Member of the Organizing Committee of the 2nd CEMLA/Dallas Fed Financial Stability Workshop, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Dallas (Texas, USA), November 30-December 1, 2023
Member of the Scientific Committee of the 29th International Conference Computing in Economics and Finance, Université Côte d’Azur, Nice (France), July 3-6, 2023
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Fall 2022 Midwest Macroeconomics Meetings (MMM), Southern Methodist University, Dallas (Texas), November 11-13, 2022
Co-chair Local Organizing Committee, 28th International Conference Computing in Economics and Finance, Southern Methodist University-Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Dallas (Texas), June 17-19, 2022
Guest Editor, Special Issue of the ECONOMÍA Journal: Recent Developments in Inflation Dynamics (July 2022)
Member of the Scientific Committee of the 2021 Annual Meetings of the International Finance and Banking Society (IFABS), Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, September 13-15, 2021
Parish Council Member, St. Peter the Apostle Roman Catholic Church, Dallas, Texas, November 2021-present
Advisory Council Member of the Society for Computational Economics (SCE), June 2018–June 2021
Fellow at the Research Centre for Financial Econometrics, Asset Markets and Macroeconomic Policy (EMP) of Lancaster University Management School, March 2017-present
Member of the Scientific Committee of the 27th Annual Symposium of the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics (SNDE), Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, March 28-29, 2019
Member of the Scientific Committee of the 2017 Annual Meetings of the Spanish Economics Association, Barcelona GSE, December 14-16, 2017
Dissertation Defense Committee Member (External): Stefan Avdjiev (PhD, 2009, SMU), Jim Cooley (PhD, 2010, SMU), Ayse Kabukcuoglu (PhD, 2013, UT-Austin), Florian Kuhn (PhD, 2015, UT-Austin), Seung Suk Le (PhD, 2016, SMU), Di Yu (PhD, 2016, SMU), Mariam Kharaishvili (PhD, 2017, SMU), Ruiyang Hu (PhD, 2018, SMU), Andrés Giraldo Palomino (PhD, 2018, SMU), Zhengyang (Robin) Chen (PhD, 2020, UT-Dallas), Igor Zhadan (PhD, 2020, SMU), Luis Fernando Colunga-Ramos (PhD, 2021, UT-Dallas), Benjamin Finch (PhD, 2022, Lancaster University)
Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Microeconomics (graduate-level course), September 2004–December 2004
Project Assistant, Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE), University of Wisconsin–Madison, September 2006–June 2007
PhD Intern, Bank of England, Monetary Analysis Division, June 2005–August 2005
Project Assistant, University of Wisconsin–Madison, January 2005–May 2005, September 2005–June 2006
Research Assistant, University of Alicante, September 1999–June 2000
Honors and Awards
2024 Outstanding Alumni Ambassador, University of Alicante, May 16, 2024 (video of the award ceremony; highlights here and here)
2023 IFABS Best Social Media Award, Oxford University, United Kingdom, 2023
2023 Central Banking Award in Economics, London, United Kingdom, 2023
Award Alumni UA, Social Council of the University of Alicante, Spain, 2017
Bank of Spain Graduate Fellowship, 2000–04
Harold Groves Economics Prize for Research in Quantitative Economic Policy, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2003–04
Premio extraordinario de Licenciatura, Merit-Based Award from the University of Alicante, 2000
Premio extraordinario al Rendimiento Académico, Merit-Based Award from the Regional Government of Valencia, Spain, 2000
Segundo Premio Nacional de Fin de Carrera en Economía, Second-Place National Award in Economics (BA), Ministry of Education and Culture, Spain, 2000
Professional Affiliations
AREUEA - The American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association
CREDO - Catholic Research Economists Discussion Organization
IBEFA - International Banking, Economics and Finance Association
Research Publications
Refereed Journals
"Forecasting Inflation in Open Economies: What Can a NOEM Model Do?" (with Roberto Duncan), Journal of Forecasting, Vol. 42 (3), pp. 481–513, March 2023. A working paper version of this article appeared as Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper no. 235, April 2015 (Revised: December 2022)
This paper also circulated as: "Forecasting Local Inflation with Global Inflation: When Economic Theory Meets the Facts" (with Roberto Duncan), Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper no. 235, April 2015
A background paper with supplementary materials appeared as Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper no. 235a, December 2022
"The Effect of Central Bank Credibility on Forward Guidance in an Estimated New Keynesian Model" (with Stephen J. Cole), Macroeconomic Dynamics, Vol. 27 (2), 532-570, March 2023. A working paper version of this article appeared as Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper no. 375, November 2019 (Revision: March 2021)
Video presentation of the paper 'The Effect of Central Bank Credibility on Forward Guidance in an Estimated New Keynesian Model', Ft. Lauderdale (FL), November 29, 2019
"Flexible Average Inflation Targeting: How Much Is U.S. Monetary Policy Changing?" (with Jarod Coulter and Roberto Duncan), Economía, Vol. 45 (89), pp. 102-149, August 2022. A working paper version of this article appeared as Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper no. 417, July 2022
"Introduction to Special Issue 2022-1: Recent Developments in Inflation Dynamics" (with Roberto Duncan), Economía, Vol. 45(89), August 2022.
"El valor económico del español en Estados Unidos: Oportunidades y retos para el futuro" (with María Teresa Martínez-García), Estudios del Observatorio / Observatorio Studies, 78, pp. 1-50, June 28, 2022.
"The Economic Value of Spanish in the United States: Opportunities and Challenges for the Future" (with María Teresa Martínez-García), Estudios del Observatorio / Observatorio Studies, 78, pp. 1-48, June 28, 2022.
"exuber: Recursive Right-Tailed Unit Root Testing with R" (with Kostas Vasilopoulos and Efthymios Pavlidis), Journal of Statistical Software, Vol. 103(10), pp. 1-26, 2022. A working paper version of this article appeared as Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper no. 383, May 2020 (Revision: October 2021)
Software: exuber: Econometric Analysis of Explosive Time Series (R package with Kostas Vasilopoulos and Efthymios Pavlidis) and intro to exuber (with Kostas Vasilopoulos, Efthymios Pavlidis, and Simon Spavound)
"Monetary Policy and Economic Performance since the Financial Crisis" (with Dario Caldara, Etienne Gagnon, and Christopher J. Neely), Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, Vol. 103(4), Fourth Quarter 2021, pp. 425-460. A working paper version of this article appeared as Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper no. 397, August 2020
This paper also circulated as: "Monetary Policy and Economic Performance since the Financial Crisis" (with Dario Caldara, Etienne Gagnon, and Christopher J. Neely), Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2020-065. Washington: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
The analysis in this paper was presented to the Federal Open Market Committee as background for its discussion of the Federal Reserve’s review of monetary policy strategy, tools, and communication practices. The Committee discussed issues related to the review at five consecutive meetings from July 2019 to January 2020. References to the FOMC’s current framework for monetary policy refer to the framework articulated in the Statement on Longer-Run Goals and Monetary Policy Strategy first issued in January 2012 and reaffirmed each January, most recently in January 2019. The conclusions and revision to the Federal Reserve's Monetary Policy Framework were announced by Chair Powell at the Jackson Hole Symposium on August 26, 2020: https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/powell20200827a.htm
Related blog post: "Fed’s New Inflation Targeting Policy Seeks to Maintain Well-Anchored Expectations" (with Jarod Coulter and Valerie Grossman), Dallas Fed Economics Blog, April 6, 2021
"In No Uncertain Terms: The Effect of Uncertainty on Credit Frictions and Monetary Policy" (with Nathan S. Balke and Zheng Zeng), Economic Modelling, Vol. 100, July 2021. A working paper version of this article appeared as Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper no. 317, June 2017 (Revised: February 2021)
A background paper with supplementary materials appeared as Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper no. 317a, June 2017 (Revised: February 2021)
"Policymakers’ Response to COVID-19 Can Draw on Great Recession Lessons" (with Jarod Coulter), Dallas Fed Economics Blog, July 7, 2020
An article that covers this research: "Credit Market Frictions, Business Cycles, and Monetary Policy: The Research Contributions of Charles Carlstrom and Timothy Fuerst" (by Todd Clark, Matthias Paustian, and Eric Sims), Economic Commentary (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland), March 25, 2020
"Get the Lowdown: The International Side of the Fall in the U.S. Natural Rate of Interest," Economic Modelling, Vol. 100, July 2021. A working paper version of this article appeared as Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper no. 403, October 2020 (Revised: February 2021)
A background paper with the derivations of the model and supplementary results appeared as Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper no. 403app, October 2020 (Revised: February 2021)
"Ties That Bind: Estimating the Natural Rate of Interest for Small Open Economies" (with Valerie Grossman, Mark A. Wynne, and Ren Zhang), Journal of International Money and Finance, Vol. 113, May 2021 (lead article in this issue, available online since January 2, 2021). A working paper version of this article appeared as Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper no. 359, April 2019 (Revised: March 2021)
Video presentation of the paper 'Ties That Bind: Estimating the Natural Rate of Interest for Small Open Economies', Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, April 24, 2019
"A Generalized Time Iteration Method for Solving Dynamic Optimization Problems with Occasionally Binding Constraints" (with Ayse Kabukcuoglu Dur), Computational Economics, Vol. 58(2), pp. 435-460, 2021. A working paper version of this article appeared as Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper no. 396, August 2020
An earlier version of this paper circulated as: "The Market Resources Method for Solving Dynamic Optimization Problems" (with Ayse Kabukcuoglu), Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper no. 274, June 2016
"Mind the Gap!—A Monetarist View of the Open-Economy Phillips Curve" (with Ayse Kabukcuoglu Dur), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol. 117, 2020. A working paper version of this article appeared as Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper no. 392, June 2020
A background paper with the derivations of the model and supplementary results appeared as Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper no. 392app, June 2020
An earlier version of this paper circulated as: "What Helps Forecast U.S. Inflation? - Mind the Gap!" (with Ayse Kabukcuoglu), Koç University-TUSIAD Economic Research Forum Working Papers No. 1615, December 2016
"Explosive Dynamics in House Prices? An Exploration of Financial Market Spillovers in Housing Markets Around the World" (with Valerie Grossman), Journal of International Money and Finance, Vol. 101(March), 2020. A working paper version of this article appeared as Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper no. 342, July 2018 (Revised September 2018)
Read coverage of this work from the Wall Street Journal (January 27, 2020)
"Drilling Down: The Impact of Oil Price Shocks on Housing Prices" (with Valerie Grossman, Luis Bernardo Torres, and Yongzhi Sun), The Energy Journal, Vol. 40(SI1), 2019. A working paper version of this article appeared as Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper no. 369, September 2019
"New Perspectives on Forecasting Inflation in Emerging Market Economies: An Empirical Assessment" (with Roberto Duncan), International Journal of Forecasting, Vol. 35(3), pp. 1008-1031, 2019. A working paper version of this article appeared as Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper no. 388, January 2018
Video presentation of the paper 'New Perspectives on Forecasting Inflation in Emerging Market Economies: An Empirical Assessment', Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, March 14, 2018
"As Good as a Random Walk: Inflation Forecasting in Emerging Market Economies" (with Roberto Duncan), VoxEU, June 8, 2018
"Detecting Periods of Exuberance: A Look at the Role of Aggregation with an Application to House Prices" (with Efthymios Pavlidis and Valerie Grossman), Economic Modelling, Vol. 80(August), pp. 87-102, 2019. A working paper version of this article appeared as Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper no. 325, August 2017 (Revised July 2018)
exuber: Econometric Analysis of Explosive Time Series (R package with Kostas Vasilopoulos and Efthymios Pavlidis) and intro to exuber (with Kostas Vasilopoulos, Efthymios Pavlidis, and Simon Spavound)
Video presentation of the paper 'Detecting Periods of Exuberance: A Look at the Role of Aggregation with an Application to House Prices' (with Valerie Grossman), Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, August 18, 2017
Read coverage of this work from Bloomberg (October 19, 2017)
"Good Policies or Good Luck? New Insights on Globalization and the International Monetary Policy Transmission Mechanism," Computational Economics, Vol. 54(1), pp. 419-454, 2019. A longer working paper version of this article appeared as Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper no. 321, July 2017
Read coverage of this work from the Wall Street Journal and the Dallas Morning News (September 6, 2017)
"Modeling Time-Variation Over the Business Cycle (1960-2017): An International Perspective," Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics, Vol. 22(5), 2018. A working paper version of this article appeared as Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper no. 348, October 2018
SUERF Policy Note, Issue No. 71 (May 16, 2019)
LinkedIn post (April 5, 2019)
Econbrowser post (October 18, 2018)
"Inflation as a Global Phenomenon--Some Implications for Inflation Modelling and Forecasting" (with Ayse Kabukcuoglu), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol. 87(2), pp. 46-73, 2018. A working paper version of this article appeared as Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper no. 261, January 2016 (Revised: November 2017)
A background paper with the derivations of the model and supplementary results appeared as Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper no. 261a, November 2017
Video presentation of the paper 'Inflation as a Global Phenomenon--Some Implications for Inflation Modelling and Forecasting', Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, October 17, 2017
(For code and dataset files, contact the author.)
"Episodes of Exuberance in Housing Markets: In Search of the Smoking Gun" (with Efthymios Pavlidis, Alisa Yusupova, Ivan Paya, David Peel, Adrienne Mack and Valerie Grossman), The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Vol. 53(4), pp. 419-449, 2016. A working paper version of this article appeared as Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper no. 165, December 2013 (Revised June 2015)
exuber: Econometric Analysis of Explosive Time Series (R package with Kostas Vasilopoulos and Efthymios Pavlidis) and intro to exuber (with Kostas Vasilopoulos, Efthymios Pavlidis, and Simon Spavound)
Presentation of the paper 'Monitoring Housing Markets for Episodes of Exuberance' (with Efthymios Pavlidis), Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, November 15, 2013
Read coverage of this work from the Wall Street Journal Blog: Real Time Economics (January 17, 2014) and from BetterDwelling.com (October 27, 2017)
"A Quantitative Assessment of the Role of Incomplete Asset Markets on the Dynamics of the Real Exchange Rate," Open Economies Review, Vol. 27(5), pp. 945-967, 2016. A working paper version appeared as Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper no. 262, January 2016.
A background paper with the derivations of the model appeared as Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper no. 74, February 2011
(For code and dataset files, contact the author.)
"A Contribution to the Chronology of Turning Points in Global Economic Activity (1980-2012)" (with Adrienne Mack and Valerie Grossman), Journal of Macroeconomics, Vol. 46, pp. 170-185, 2015. A working paper version of this article appeared as Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper no. 169, January 2014
"On the Sustainability of Exchange Rate Target Zones with Central Parity Realignments," Economics Letters, Vol. 134, pp. 86-89, 2015. A working paper version of this article appeared as Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper no. 243, June 2015
(For code and dataset files, contact the author.)
"A New Database of Global Economic Indicators" (with Adrienne Mack and Valerie Grossman), The Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, Vol. 39(3), pp. 163-197, 2014. A working paper version of this article under the title "Database of Global Economic Indicators (DGEI): A Methodological Note" appeared as Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper no. 166, December 2013
(For code and dataset files, contact the author.)
"Assessing Bayesian Model Comparison in Small Samples" (with Mark A. Wynne), Advances in Econometrics, Vol. 34 (Bayesian Model Comparison), pp. 71-115, edited by Ivan Jeliazkov and Dale Poirier. Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2014. A working paper version of this article under the title "Assessing Bayesian Model Comparison in Small Samples" appeared as Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper no. 189, August 2014
A background paper with the derivations of the model appeared as Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper no. 190, August 2014
(For code and dataset files, contact the author.)
"Investment and Real Exchange Rates in Sticky Price Models" (with Jens Søndergaard), Macroeconomic Dynamics, Vol. 17(2), pp. 195-234, 2013. A working paper version of this article under the title "The Real Exchange Rate in Sticky Price Models: Does Investment Matter?" appeared as Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper no. 17, July 2008
A background paper with the derivations of the model appeared as Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper no. 16, July 2008 (Revised November 2010)
(For code and dataset files, contact the author.)
"Bayesian Estimation of NOEM Models: Identification and Inference in Small Samples" (with Diego Vilán and Mark A. Wynne), Advances in Econometrics, Vol. 28 (DSGE Models in Macroeconomics: Estimation, Evaluation, and New Developments), pp. 137-199, edited by Nathan S. Balke, Fabio Canova, Fabio Milani, and Mark A. Wynne. Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2012. An extended working paper version of this article under the title "Bayesian Estimation of NOEM Models: Identification and Inference in Small Samples" appeared as Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper no. 105, January 2012 (Revised March 2012)
(For code and dataset files, contact the author.)
"A Model of the Exchange Rate with Informational Frictions," The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics: Vol. 10 : Iss. 1 (Contributions), Article 2, 2010. A working paper version of this article appeared as Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper no. 2, October 2007
Book Chapters
"Exploring the Nexus between Inflation and Globalization under Inflation Targeting through the Lens of New Zealand's Experience" (with Ayse Kabukcuoglu and Mehmet Ali Soytas), in Current Approaches in Education and Economics, Part II. Current Approaches in Economic Studies, Chapter V, pp. 55-74, edited by Hasan Göksu. SRA Academic Publishing, October 2017. A working paper version of this article appeared as Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper no. 308, March 2017
(For code and dataset files, contact the author.)
"The Global Component of Local Inflation: Revisiting the Empirical Content of the Global Slack Hypothesis with Bayesian Methods," in Monetary Policy in the Context of Financial Crisis: New Challenges and Lessons, pp. 51-112, edited by William Barnett and Fredj Jawadi. Emerald Group Publishing Limited, July 2015. A working paper version of this article appeared as Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper no. 225, February 2015
(For code and dataset files, contact the author.)
"U.S. Business Cycles, Monetary Policy and the External Finance Premium," in Advances in Non-Linear Economic Modeling: Theory and Applications, Vol. 17, pp. 41-114, edited by Frauke Schleer-van Gellecom, Series: Dynamic Modeling and Econometrics in Economics and Finance. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, January 2014. A working paper version of this article appeared as Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper no. 160, September 2013
(For code and dataset files, contact the author.)
"Global Slack as a Determinant of U.S. Inflation" (with Mark A. Wynne), in Globalisation and Inflation Dynamics in Asia and the Pacific, edited by the Bank for International Settlements, Vol. 70, pp. 93-98. Basel, Switzerland: Bank for International Settlements, 2013. A working paper version of this article appeared as Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper no. 123, August 2012
Read coverage of this work from The Economist (September 19, 2012)
"The Balance Sheet Channel" (with Ethan Cohen-Cole), in Financial Stability, Monetary Policy, and Central Banking, edited by Rodrigo A. Alfaro, Series: Central Banking, Analysis, and Economic Policies. Santiago, Chile: Central Bank of Chile, 2010. A working paper version of this article appeared as SSRN Working Paper Series No. 2365048, December 2013
"Investment and Trade Patterns in a Sticky-Price, Open-Economy Model" (with Jens Søndergaard), in The Economics of Imperfect Markets. The Effect of Market Imperfections on Economic Decision-Making, edited by Giorgio Calcagnini and Enrico Saltari, Series: Contributions to Economics. Heidelberg: Springer (Physica-Verlag), December 2009. A working paper version of this article appeared as Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper no. 28, January 2009
(For code and dataset files, contact the author.)
Books
"Functional Doctrine of Money. Germán Bernácer" (translated with María Teresa Martínez-García), published by Caja de Ahorros del Mediterráneo and Universidad de Alicante Fundación General with the support of the Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute, June 2009. [This is an English translation of the revised second edition of "La Doctrina Funcional del Dinero," by Germán Bernácer Tormo, published by the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Instituto "Sancho de Moncada": Madrid, 1956.]
Working Papers
Business Cycle Dynamics and Monetary Policy
"Living Up to Expectations: Central Bank Credibility, the Effectiveness of Forward Guidance, and Inflation Dynamics Post-Global Financial Crisis" (with Stephen J. Cole and Eric R. Sims), Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper no. 424, September 2023
A version of this paper appeared as NBER working paper no. 31777, October 2023
(For code and dataset files, contact the author.)
"On the Nexus of Monetary Policy and Financial Stability: Novel Asset Market Monitoring Tools for Building Economic Resilience and Mitigating Financial Risks" (with Valerie Grossman and Lauren Spits), Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper no. 421, June 2023
"Monetary Policy Uncertainty and Economic Fluctuations at the Zero Lower Bound" (with Rachel Doehr), Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper no. 412, November 2021
(For code and dataset files, contact the author.)
"Checking the Path Towards Recovery from the COVID-19 Isolation Response" (with Finn E. Kydland), Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper no. 384, May 2020
Video of the presentation of 'Checking the Path Towards Recovery from the COVID-19 Isolation Response', Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, July 9, 2020
(For code and dataset files, contact the author.)
"Monetary Policy Expectations and Economic Fluctuations at the Zero Lower Bound" (with Rachel Doehr), Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper no. 240, May 2015 (Revised: November 2021)
Read coverage of this work from The Atlantic magazine (June 14, 2016)
Videoblog (February 16, 2022)
(For code and dataset files, contact the author.)
Open-Economy Macroeconomics
"The Contribution of Foreign Holdings of U.S. Treasury Securities to the U.S. Long-Term Interest Rate" (with Yixiang Zhang), SSRN Working Paper no. 3495790, November 2019
(For code and dataset files, contact the author.)
"Globalization and Monetary Policy: An Introduction," Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper no. 11, April 2008
Inflation Dynamics and Globalization
"Just Do IT? An Assessment of Inflation Targeting in a Global Comparative Case Study" (with Roberto Duncan and Patricia Toledo)
(For code and dataset files, contact the author.)
House Prices
"A Cross-Country Quarterly Database of Real House Prices: A Methodological Note" (with Adrienne Mack and Valerie Grossman), Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper no. 99, December 2011 (Revised: January 2019)
International House Price Database of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
IEO/IMF (Independent Evaluation Office of the International Monetary Fund) Virtual Seminar June 24, 2021: "The Global Real Estate Boom: Is it Time to Worry Again?"
Methodological Contributions
"A Matter of Perspective: Mapping Linear Rational Expectations Models into Finite-Order VAR Form," Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper no. 389, May 2020
"Finite-Order VAR Representation of Linear Rational Expectations Models: With Some Lessons for Monetary Policy," Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper no. 285, September 2016 (Revised: August 2018)
Supplementary materials (SSRN WP #3279250): "Finite-Order VAR Representation of Linear Rational Expectations Models: In a Nutshell"
Federal Reserve System Publications
"Disparate Supply-Side Forces Gave U.S. Economy an Edge" (with Braden Strackman), Dallas Fed Economics Blog, March 26, 2024
Media and online coverage: Central Banking
"Gazing at R-star: Gauging U.S. Monetary Policy Via the Natural Rate of Interest," Dallas Fed Economics Blog, July 3, 2023
"Monetary Policy at a Crossroads: Donald Kohn on Controlling Inflation, Ukraine Effects, Volcker-Era Lessons," Dallas Fed Economics Blog, July 5, 2022
"Russia’s War on Ukraine Will Leave Scars on U.S., World Economies" (with Jarod Coulter), Dallas Fed Economics Blog, May 17, 2022
"Real-Time Market Monitoring Finds Signs of Brewing U.S. Housing Bubble" (with Jarod Coulter, Valerie Grossman, Peter C.B. Phillips, and Shuping Shi), Dallas Fed Economics Blog, March 29, 2022
Media and online coverage (some of it anyway): CNN, CBS, Sunday Today with Willie Geist (NBC), NPR, Bloomberg, Fortune here and here, USA Today, Dallas Morning News, Forbes, CGTN, Yahoo Finance here and here, Housing Wire Daily, Allsides, Seeking Alpha, local news (Salt Lake City here and here, Nashville, Jacksonville), and Youtube (here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here, among others).
"Taking the Global Housing Market’s Temperature: Is It Running a Fever (Again)?" (with Jarod Coulter, Valerie Grossman, Efthymios Pavlidis, Kostas Vasilopoulos, and Iván Payá), Dallas Fed Economics Blog, September 28, 2021
"Spanish-Speaking Growth in Texas Reinforces Need to Close Education Gaps" (with María Teresa Martínez-García, Jarod Coulter, and Valerie Grossman), Dallas Fed Economics Blog, August 3, 2021
"Se Habla Español: U.S. Yet to Realize Many Benefits of a Growing Bilingual Population" (with María Teresa Martínez-García, Jarod Coulter, and Valerie Grossman), Dallas Fed Economics Blog, July 13, 2021
Virtual Seminar for the Instituto Cervantes's Observatory at Harvard University, December 2, 2021 (Video, Presentation and Replication Files)
"Fed’s New Inflation Targeting Policy Seeks to Maintain Well-Anchored Expectations" (with Jarod Coulter and Valerie Grossman), Dallas Fed Economics Blog, April 6, 2021
"COVID-19 Risks Expose Vulnerabilities, Downside Risks to U.S. Outlook" (with Jarod Coulter), Dallas Fed Economics Blog, March 2, 2021
Read coverage of this work from Business Insider (March 3, 2021)
criticalmention.com video (March 4, 2021)
"Systemic Risks, Interdependencies Weigh on 2021 Global Outlook" (with Jarod Coulter), Dallas Fed Economics Blog, February 16, 2021
"Policymakers’ Response to COVID-19 Can Draw on Great Recession Lessons" (with Jarod Coulter), Dallas Fed Economics Blog, July 7, 2020
"Private Forecasters’ COVID-19 Global Growth Outlook Takes Shape," Dallas Fed Economics Blog, May 5, 2020
Econbrowser post (May 6, 2020)
"Go Figure: Texas Home Prices Head Through the Roof" (with Valerie Grossman), Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Southwest Economy, Vol. 18, No. 01, First Quarter 2018
"Risk, Uncertainty Separately Cloud Global Growth Forecasting" (with Alexander Chudik and Valerie Grossman), Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Economic Letter, Vol. 11, No. 9, July 2016
"Consequences of the Euro: Monetary Union, Economic Disunion?" (with Valerie Grossman), Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Economic Letter, Vol. 11, No. 2, April 2016
"Investment Enhances Emerging Economies’ Living Standards," Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Economic Letter, Vol. 10, No. 5, April 2015
"Globalization: The Elephant in the Room That Is No More," Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute 2014 Annual Report, February 2015
"Technological Progress is Key to Improving World Living Standards," Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Economic Letter, Vol. 8, No. 4, June 2013
"Increased Real House Price Volatility Signals Break from Great Moderation" (with Adrienne Mack), Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Economic Letter, Vol. 7, No. 1, January 2012
"The Global Slack Hypothesis" (with Mark A. Wynne), Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Staff Papers, No. 10, September 2010
Presentation 'Global Output Gaps: Wave of the Future?' (by James Bullard), March 28, 2012, with references to this article
Read coverage on the determinants of inflation in the Financial Times (March 30, 2015) with references to the meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) of December 15-16, 2009 (see FOMC documents here and here)
"The Euro and the Dollar in the Crisis and Beyond" (with Janet Koech), Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute 2010 Annual Report, May 2011
"A Historical Look at the Labor Market During Recessions" (with Janet Koech), Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Economic Letter, Vol. 5, No. 1, January 2010
Other Research Publications
"Exploring the Economics of Russia's War with Ukraine in One Minute", Video Update, March 29, 2022
"Interest Rate Expectations Shape the Federal Reserve’s Path of Lift-off" (with Rachel Doehr), VoxEU, March 6, 2022
"Room to Grow: Housing for a New Economy," IMF's Global Housing Watch Newsletter, March 2020
Re-posted as a LinkedIn article
""Españoles por el Mundo": Evolución y Determinantes (2002-2019)," Boletín del Colegio Oficial de Doctores y Licenciados en Filosofía y Letras y en Ciencias Núm. 284 (Junio-Julio 2019)
"As Good as a Random Walk: Inflation Forecasting in Emerging Market Economies" (with Roberto Duncan), VoxEU, June 8, 2018
"Oil Change: Fueling Housing and Land Prices?" (with Valerie Grossman, Yongzhi Sun, and Luis B. Torres), Journal of the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University Tierra Grande, Vol. 24, October 2017
"Global and Local Housing Markets: The View From Experts at the Dallas FED" (with Valerie Grossman), interviewed by Hites Ahir, IMF's Global Housing Watch Newsletter, August 2016
"Curb Your Enthusiasm: Keeping an Eye on Home Prices" (with Valerie Grossman and Luis B. Torres), Journal of the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University Tierra Grande, Vol. 23, July 2016
"Historia de Una Mosca Valenciana (o Noveldera)" (with María Teresa Martínez García and Omayra Esquivas Espada), published in Betania, Novelda (Spain), June 2014
"The Maritime Voyage of Jorge Juan to the Viceroyalty of Peru (1735–1746)" (with María Teresa Martínez García), published in Betania, Novelda (Spain), June 2012
"Lecture Notes on Globalization and Monetary Policy (Rules)," April 2008
Seminars, Workshops, and Lectures
2024
University of Elche (2024 ASEPELT, Plenary Speaker), University of Alicante (External Seminar), Southern Methodist University (2024 Award Luncheon Speaker), Johns Hopkins Carey Business School (Guest Lecture, Virtual), San Marcos, TX (Insightful Minds in International Macro Seminar Series, video)
2023
New Orleans, LA (93rd Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association), Omni Hotel, Dallas (65th Annual Meeting of NABE; video, slides), Oxford University (2023 International Banking and Finance Society Meetings), San Diego WEAI (Annual Meetings of the Western Economic Association International), London (2023 Central Banking Summer Meetings, Speech)
2022
Bocconi University (37th Congress of the European Economic Association), Lancaster University (16th annual Dynare Conference), Portland WEAI (Annual Meetings of the Western Economic Association International), Houston Chapter of the United States Association for Energy Economics (USAEE, Presentation), 2022 Summer Professional Development (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas - San Antonio Branch), Dallas Fed & Southern Methodist University, Dallas (28th CEF Conference), Federal Reserve Bank of New York (Virtual Mortgage Forum), Lancaster University Management School (Virtual Seminar), Johns Hopkins Carey Business School (Guest Lecture, Virtual), Centenary College of Louisiana (Guest Lecture, Virtual), University of Central Florida (29th SNDE Symposium, Virtual), Boston AEA (Annual Meetings of the American Economics Association, Virtual)
2021
Boston, MA (Instituto Cervantes' Observatory of the Spanish language and Hispanic cultures in the U.S. at Harvard University (FAS), Virtual), Houston, TX (91st Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association), UT-Dallas (Guest Lecture), Hawaii WEAI (Annual Meetings of the Western Economic Association International, Virtual), Washington, DC (IEO/IMF Virtual Seminar June 24, 2021), 2021 Summer Professional Development (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Virtual), Keio University, Tokyo (27th CEF Conference, Virtual)
2020
New Orleans, LA (90th Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association, Virtual), Paris INSEEC (6th International Symposium in Computational Economics and Finance, Virtual), University of Zagreb (28th SNDE Symposium, Virtual), 35th Congress of the European Economic Association (Rotterdam Virtual), The Econometric Society World Congress (Bocconi University Virtual), Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University (Virtual Seminar)
2019
University of Alicante (44th Meetings of the Spanish Economic Association), University EAFIT, Medellín (2019 International Banking and Finance Society Meetings), Ft. Lauderdale, FL (89th Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association), University of Manchester (34th Congress of the European Economic Association), San Francisco WEAI (Annual Meetings of the Western Economic Association International), Carleton University, Ottawa (25th CEF Conference), University of Washington, Seattle (North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society), Paris (4th International Workshop on "Financial Markets and Nonlinear Dynamics"), Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (27th SNDE Symposium)
2018
University Carlos III of Madrid (43rd Meetings of the Spanish Economic Association), University of Texas at Dallas (Seminar), University of Kansas (Seminar), University of Notre Dame (Memorial Conference in Honor of Charles Carlstrom and Timothy Fuerst), University of Cologne (33rd Congress of the European Economic Association), Vancouver WEAI (Annual Meetings of the Western Economic Association International), University of California-Davis (North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society), University of California-Irvine (Advances in Econometrics vol. 40 Conference), University of Wisconsin-Madison (Midwest Macro Meetings), Paris INSEEC (5th International Symposium in Computational Economics and Finance), Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (Real Estate Conference with Texas A&M University's RECENTER), Philadelphia AEA (Annual Meetings of the American Economics Association)
2017
Tampa, FL (87th Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association), University of Texas at Dallas (Seminar), University of Lisbon (32th Congress of the European Economic Association), New York City, Fordham University (23th CEF Conference), San Diego WEAI (Annual Meetings of the Western Economic Association International), ESSCA École de Management Campus Paris (3rd International Workshop on "Financial Markets and Nonlinear Dynamics"), ESSEC Business School and University of Evry in Paris (25th SNDE Symposium), Fairmont Hotel in Dallas (U.S. Cotton Export Promotion Committee), Orange County Convention Center in Florida (International Housing Association Annual Meeting)
2016
University of the Basque Country (41st Meetings of the Spanish Economic Association), Washington, DC (86th Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association), Marquette University (Seminar), Purdue University (Midwest Macro Meetings), Paris INSEEC (4th International Symposium in Computational Economics and Finance), San Francisco AEA (Annual Meetings of the American Economics Association)
2015
University of Alicante (50th Anniversary of Germán Bernácer's Death), University of Girona (40th Meetings of the Spanish Economic Association), New Orleans, LA (85th Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association), Koç University in Istanbul (Seminar), University of Mannheim (30th Congress of the European Economic Association), Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas - Houston Branch (2015 International Marketplace), Honolulu WEAI (Annual Meetings of the Western Economic Association International), ESSCA École de Management Campus Paris (2nd International Workshop on "Financial Markets and Nonlinear Dynamics"), Washington University at St. Louis (Midwest Macro Meetings), Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University (Seminar), Las Vegas Convention Center (International Housing Association and International Housing and Home Warranty Association Joint Meeting), Boston AEA (Annual Meetings of the American Economics Association)
2014
Centro-Cultural "Gómez Tortosa" of Novelda (Speech), Atlanta, GA (84th Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association), Denver WEAI (Annual Meetings of the Western Economic Association International), University of Missouri-Columbia (Midwest Macro Meetings)
2013
CEMFI and Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo in Santander (38th Meetings of the Spanish Economic Association), Tampa, FL (83rd Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association), University of Arkansas, Fayetteville (Seminar), Swiss National Bank, Zurich (SNB – BIS – FRBD – CEPR Conference), Banco de México (Seminar), Vancouver, BC (19th CEF Conference), Seattle WEAI (Annual Meetings of the Western Economic Association International), University of Southern California (2013 North American Summer Meetings of the Econometric Society), Tsinghua University of Beijing (Seminar), Hong Kong Monetary Authority (Visitor), Chinese University of Hong Kong (Seminar), Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (Seminar), Fudan University (Seminar and Session Chair at 2013 Shanghai Forum)
2012
New Orleans, LA (82nd Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association), Prague, Czech Republic (18th CEF Conference), San Francisco WEAI (Annual Meetings of the Western Economic Association International), University of Málaga (66th Econometric Society European Meetings), University of Notre Dame (Midwest Macro Meetings), University of Texas at Austin (Macro Writing Seminar), University of Texas at Austin (Texas Economics Association Lecture), Ohio University (Seminar)
2011
University of Málaga (36th Meetings of the Spanish Economic Association), Washington, DC (81st Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association), Southern Methodist University (10th Annual Advances in Econometrics Conference), University of Oslo (European Economic Association and Econometric Society Annual Meetings), San Diego WEAI (Annual Meetings of the Western Economic Association International), Vanderbilt University (Midwest Macro Meetings), Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (System Committee on International Economic Analysis), Kansas University (Seminar), Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (Seminar), Bowling Green State University (Seminar)
2010
Autonomous University of Madrid (35th Meetings of the Spanish Economic Association), Atlanta (80th Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association), Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (Seminar), City University London (16th CEF Conference), Portland WEAI (Annual Meetings of the Western Economic Association International), Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (Seminar), Michigan State University (Midwest Macro Meetings)
2009
Lecture Hall CAM in Alicante (Book Presentation), San Antonio (79th Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association), Foundation Banco Santander (22nd Symposium Money and Credit), Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas—San Antonio Branch (System Committee on International Economic Analysis), University of Technology—Sydney (15th CEF Conference), University of Indiana—Bloomington (Midwest Macro Meetings), Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (17th SNDE Symposium), Bank of England (Seminar), Bank for International Settlements (Seminar), San Francisco AEA (Annual Meetings of the American Economics Association)
2008
University of Alicante (Lecture), Centro-Cultural "Gómez Tortosa" of Novelda (Speech), University of Zaragoza (33rd Meetings of the Spanish Economic Association), Central Bank of Chile (12th Annual Conference of the Central Bank of Chile), Federal Reserve Board (System Committee on International Economic Analysis), University La Sorbonne (14th CEF Conference), University of Pennsylvania (Midwest Macro Meetings), University of Texas at Dallas (Conference on Methods), Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (16th SNDE Symposium)
2007
University of Alicante (Lecture), Texas A&M University (Seminar), University of Wisconsin–Madison (Graduate Student Conference in Probability), Université de la Mediterranée–Aix en Provence (2nd OMD Conference), Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (Seminar), Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (Seminar), Bank of Spain (Seminar), Deustche Bundesbank (Seminar), University of Saskatchewan (Seminar), Ohio State University (Seminar), Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Seminar)
2006
University of Alicante (Seminar), University of Wisconsin–Madison (Seminar), University Jaime I–Castellón de la Plana (Seminar)
2005
Bank of England (Seminar), Bank of Spain (Seminar), University of Wisconsin–Madison (Seminar)
2004
University of Wisconsin–Madison (Seminar)
Occasional Referee
American Economic Review; Review of Economics and Statistics; Journal of International Economics; Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control; Journal of Money, Credit and Banking; International Journal of Central Banking; International Journal of Forecasting; Macroeconomic Dynamics; B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics; Journal of Macroeconomics; Journal of International Money and Finance; Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization; The Energy Journal; International Journal of Finance and Economics; Economic Inquiry; Contemporary Economic Policy; Computational Economics; Open Economies Review; Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics; Finance Research Letters; Economics Letters; Advances in Econometrics; Real Estate Economics; Journal of Business and Economic Statistics; Applied Economics; Oxford Economic Papers; Economic Modelling; International Review of Economics and Finance; China Economic Review; Scottish Journal of Political Economy; South African Journal of Economics; Economics Bulletin; New Zealand's Productivity Commission; Plos One
Co-Authors
Dario Caldara (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System)
Étienne Gagnon (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System)
María Teresa Martínez-García (University of Utah, Asia Campus)
Valentín Martínez-García (Universidad Internacional de Valencia)
Peter C.B. Phillips (Emeritus Yale University, University of Auckland)
Kostas Vasilopoulos (Lancaster University Management School)