Quantitative Ease by Carola Binder

I recently updated my Consumer Inflation Uncertainty Index through October 2017. Data is available here  and the official (gated) publicati...

Last semester, my senior thesis advisee Alex Rodrigue conducted a survey-based information experiment via Amazon Mechanical Turk . We have c...

My paper " Consumer Forecast Revisions: Is Information Really so Sticky? " was just accepted for publication in Economics Letters ...

Russ Roberts recently interviewed Robert Whaples on the EconTalk podcast, which I have listened to regularly for years. I was especially i...

Economists have mixed opinions about the degree to which subjective wellbeing and happiness should guide policymaking. Wouter den Haan, Mart...

"Note that among Democrats, year-ahead income expectations fell and year-ahead inflation expectations rose, and among Republicans, inc...

As a macroeconomist, I mostly research the types of concepts that are more traditionally associated with economics, like inflation and inter...

In a recently-released research note , Federal Reserve Board economists  Alan Detmeister , David Lebow , and Ekaterina Peneva  summarize new...

One of my major motivations in starting this blog a few years ago was to have a space to grapple with the topic of central bank independence...

Randal Verbrugge and I have just published a Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Economic Commentary called " Digging into the Downward T...

The Federal Reserve Board of Governors has now joined you, your grandma, and 1.7 billion of your closest friends on Facebook. A press releas...

In my working paper " Measuring Uncertainty Based on Rounding: New Method and Application to Inflation Expectations ," I develop a...

“ Although it has never been clear whether the consumer needs to be protected from his own folly or from the rapaciousness of those who fee...

Earlier this month, New York Federal Reserve President William Dudley gave a speech on " The U.S. Economic Outlook and Implications fo...

In my job market paper last year, I constructed a new measure of households' inflation uncertainty based on people's tendency to use...

Over a year ago , I looked at data from the Michigan Survey of Consumers to see whether most households were expecting interest rates to ris...

My first economics journal publication is now available online in Economics Letters. This link provides free access until November 9, 2015....

In " Household Surveys in Crisis ,"  Bruce D. Meyer , Wallace K.C. Mok , and  James X. Sullivan  describe household surveys as ...