Curriculum Vitae

Christopher J. Nekarda

CONTACT
INFORMATION
Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Research and Statistics Division
Mailstop 80
20th St. & C St. NW
Washington, DC 20551-0001		 Phone: (202) 452-3897
Fax: (202) 872-4927
Email: christopher.j.nekarda@frb.gov
Web: http://chrisnekarda.com/
http://www.federalreserve.gov/

CURRENT
POSITION
Economist
Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Macroeconomic Analysis Section
Division of Research and Statistics 		2009 – present
Washington, DC

EDUCATION
Ph.D., Economics
University of California, San Diego
Dissertation title: “Measuring U.S. Labor Market Dynamics” 		2002 – 2008
La Jolla, CA
Thesis committee: Garey Ramey (chair), Valerie A. Ramey, James D. Hamilton, Gordon H. Hanson, David Phillips
 
A.B., Economics
University of California, Berkeley
With highest honors		 1996 – 2000
Berkeley, CA

RESEARCH
FIELDS
Primary Macroeconomics (labor markets)
Secondary Applied econometrics (time series)

PUBLICATIONS
Forthcoming “Industry Evidence on the Effects of Government Spending”,
with Valerie A. Ramey, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

WORKING
PAPERS
Jun 2010 “The Cyclical Behavior of the Price-Cost Markup”,
with Valerie A. Ramey
 
Jun 2009 “Understanding Unemployment Dynamics: The Role of Time Aggregation”
 
May 2009 “A Longitudinal Analysis of the Current Population Survey: Assessing the Cyclical Bias of Geographic Mobility”
 
Jan 2007 “The Cyclicality of Worker Flows: New Evidence from the SIPP”,
with Shigeru Fujita and Garey Ramey

RELEVANT
POSITIONS HELD
Research Assistant
Valerie A. Ramey, Professor of Economics
University of California, San Diego and National Bureau of Economic Research		 2006 – 2008
La Jolla, CA
 
Research Assistant
Dr. George L. Perry, Senior Fellow
Brookings Institution		 2000 – 2002
Washington, DC

PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITIES
Statistical Associate Editor
Brookings Papers on Economics Activity
Brookings Institution		 2000 – 2002
Washington, DC
 
Affiliations
American Economic Association, Econometric Society
 
Referee
Economic Inquiry,
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control

TEACHING
Lecturer
University of California, San Diego		 Fall 2008
La Jolla, CA
Instructor for upper division international trade (Economics 101)
 
Teaching Assistant
University of California, San Diego		 2003 – 2008
La Jolla, CA
Teaching assistant for upper division economic history, international trade, economic development, international macroeconomics, health economics, econometrics, and lower division introductory economics

HONORS
AND AWARDS
2007 Dean’s Social Science Research Travel Grant, UC San Diego
2006 Institute for Applied Economics, Computation Grant, UC San Diego

PERSONAL
INFORMATION
Sex Male
Citizenship United States
 
 
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