Address

Department of Economics
Barnard College
3009 Broadway
New York, NY 10027
212-854-3333
fax: 212-854-8947

Degrees in Higher Education

Ph.D., Northwestern University, Economics, 1997
     Dissertation: "Indeterminacy in Models with Production Externalities: Theory and Evidence"
M.A., Northwestern University, Economics, 1995
B.S., Tufts University, magna cum laude, Mathematics and Quantitative Economics, 1989

Professional Experience

Associate Professor, Barnard College, July 2006-present
Assistant Professor, Barnard College, August 1997-2006
Instructor, Northwestern University, Summers 1995, 1996

Academic and Professional Honors

Phi Beta Kappa, Tufts University, 1989
Gladys Brooks Award for Teaching Excellence, 2004

Current Membership in Professional Societies

American Economic Association
Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession
Econometric Society
Cliometric Society
Midwest Economics Association

Courses Taught

Econometrics (Summer 1995, Summer 1996, Spring 1998, Spring 1999, Spring 2000, Spring 2002, Spring 2003, Spring 2004)
Intermediate Macroeconomics (Fall 1997, Spring 1998, Spring 1999, Spring 2000, Fall 2004, Fall 2005, Spring 2006, Fall 2006, Spring 2007)
Introduction to Macroeconomics (Fall 1997, Fall 1998, Fall 1999, Fall 2004, Fall 2005, Spring 2006)
First Year Seminar: Chaos (Fall 1999, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007)
Senior Seminar: Why Can't Macroeconomists Agree? (Fall 1998, Fall 2002)
Statistics for Economics (Fall 2001, Fall 2002)
Business Cycles (Fall 2003, Fall 2004, Fall 2005, Fall 2006)
Senior Thesis seminar (Fall 2003, Spring 2004, Fall 2004, Spring 2005)

Graduate Dissertation Committees

Frank Zhang, Finance, 2008
Siddhartha Dastidar, Finance, 2008
Binu Balachandran, Finance, 2008
Paul Po-Hsuan Hsu, Finance, 2007
Olga Gorbachev, Economics, 2007
Binu Balachandran, Finance, 2007
Min Wei, Columbia University, Finance, 2003-2004
Jae Hoon Hahn, Columbia University, Finance, 2002-2003
Anton Granik, Columbia University, Economics, 2002-2003
Natalia Gershun, Columbia University, Finance, 2001-2003
Tania Reif, Columbia University, Economics, 2001-2002
Rong Qi, Columbia University, Finance, 2001-2002
Jorge Chan-Lau, Columbia University, Economics, 1997-1998

Publications

"Chaos, Sunspots and Automatic Stabilizers," with Lawrence J. Christiano, Journal of Monetary Economics 44, August 1999, 3-31.

"Indeterminacy in a Model with Aggregate and Sector-Specific Externalities," with Mark Weder, Economics Letters 69:2, October 2000, 173-179.

"Indeterminacy in a Model with Sector-Specific Externalities," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 25(5), January 2001, 747-764.

"Tax Policy and Stability in a Model with Sector-Specific Externalities," with Jang-Ting Guo, Review of Economic Dynamics 4(1), January 2001, 75-89.

"Indeterminacy with Capital Utilization and Sector-Specific Externalities," with Jang-Ting Guo, Economics Letters 72(3), September 2001, 355-360.

"Tracing Externalities as Sources of Indeterminacy," with Mark Weder, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 26(5), December 2001, 851-867 .

"Returns to Scale and Externalities in the Consumption and Investment Sectors," Review of Economic Dynamics 6(4), October 2003, 963-976.

"Do Sunspots Reflect Consumer Confidence? An Empirical Investigation," Eastern Economic Journal, 31:1, Winter 2005, 55-73.

"Balanced Budget Rules and Macroeconomic (In)stability," with Jang-Ting Guo, Journal of Economic Theory, 119:2, December 2004, 357-363.

"Government Size and Macroeconomic Stability: A Comment," with Jang-Ting Guo, European Economic Review, 50:5, July 2006, 1339-1346.

"Did Sunspot Forces Cause the Great Depression?" with Mark Weder, Journal of Monetary Economics, 53:7, 2006, 1327-1339 .

"Useful Government Spending and Macroeconomic (In)stability Under Balanced Budget Rules," with Jang-Ting Guo, Journal of Public Economic Theory, 10(3), 2008, 383-397.

"Asset Pricing in Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Models with Indeterminacy,"  with Natalia Gershun,  Macroeconomic Dynamics, 12:1, 2008, 50-71 .

Works Accepted for Publication

Working Papers in Progress

"Did Sunspot Forces Cause the Roaring Twenties?", with Mark Weder.
"Indeterminacy with No-Income-Effect Preferences and Sector-Specific Externalities ", with Jang-Ting Guo, submitted to Journal of Economic Theory
"Technology, Credit and Confidence during the Roaring Twenties", with Mark Weder.

Presentations

NBER workshop on Development of the American Economy, July 2008

"Technology, Credit and Confidence During the Roaring Twenties," American Economic Association Annual Conference, January 2008. (Chair of Session entitled "Prosperity and Depression: the 1920s and 1930s.")

"Useful Government Spending and Macroeconomic Stability," Seminar at Vassar College, March 2006. Seminar at Williams College, April 2007. Annual ASSA meetings, January 2007. Seminar at University of Delaware, November, 2007.

"Did sunspot Forces Cause the Roaring Twenties?", Gettysburg College, November 2005. Macroeconojic Research at Liberal Arts Colleges Conference, August, 2006.

"Real business Cycles and automatic Stabilizers," (now "Government Size and Macroeconomic Stability: A Comment).
CoFail conference, June 2005
Econometric Society Meetings, June 2004.
"Macro Lunch" at the Columbia University Business School, April 2004.
Midwest Economics Association, March 2004.

"Did Sunspot Forces Cause the Great Depression?"
Cliometrics Conference, May, 2003.
UCLA Monetary and Macroeconomics Workshop, March 2003.
NBER Summer Institute, July 2002.
Midwest Economics Association, March 2002.
Columbia University Seminar in Economic History, December, 2001.
"Macro lunch" at the Columbia Business School, November, 2001.
"A New Way to Measure Technology Improvements: Volumes of Evidence."
"Macro Lunch" at the Columbia Business School, April 2003

"Do Sunspots Reflect Consumer Confidence? An Empirical Investigation." Conference on Macroeconomic Coordination Failures, Middlebury College, May 2001. "Indeterminacy in a Model with Sector-Specific Externalities." Conference on Extrinsic Uncertainty at New York University, May 2000.
Society for Economic Dynamics, Annual Conference, June, 1998.
Summer meetings of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), July 1997."Tax Policy and Stability in a Model with Sector-Specific Externalities." Macroeconomics Seminar at University of Delaware, April 2000. Macroeconomics Seminar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, March 2000.
Midwest Economics Association, March 2000.
Society for Economic Dynamics, June, 1999.
Macroeconomics Seminar at University of Connecticut, April, 1999.
Midwest Macroeconomics Annual Conference, April, 1999."Tracing Externalities as Sources of Indeterminacy." Midwest Economics Association, March 2000. "The Role of Consumer Expectations in the Macroeconomy." "Macro lunch" at the Columbia Business School, November, 1999. Chair of Roundtable session entitled "Research and Teaching as Complementary Inputs in Undergraduate Education." American Economic Association, Annual Conference, January 1999.

"Indeterminacy and Sector Specific Externalities: Theory and Evidence." Faculty Workshop at Middlebury College, May 1998.
Monetary Economics Workshop at UCLA, April 1998.
Economic Theory Workshop at UC-Riverside, April 1998.

"Evidence on the Empirical Plausibility of Externalities and Indeterminacy in a Two Sector Model." "Macro lunch" at the Columbia Business School, November 18, 1997.
Macroeconomics Workshop at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, November 4, 1997.
Macroeconomics Workshop at Rice University, November 3, 1997.

Service to the College/University

Parking Committee, 2007.
Honor Board, 2005-2007.
Advisor for Barnard/Columbia "College Fed Challenge" Team, 2003, 2004.
Judicial Council, 2003-2005.
Faculty Reporter (at monthly full-faculty meetings) 2004-2005.
Panel Member for "Academic Areas of Study" for incoming first-year students, April, 2003.
Member of Search Committee for Position in Economics, 2002-2003, 2004-2005.
External Member of Search Committee for Position in Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures, 2002-2003.
Guest Lecturer at HEOP workshop, October 2002.
Guest Lecturer in "Introduction to the Social Sciences," January 2002.
Office of Career Development, Faculty-in-Residence, 1999-2000.
Office of Career Development, Tripartite Committee, 1998-2000.
Barnard Department of Economics, Senior Thesis Coordinator, 1998-2000.
Principles Coordinator, Student-Faculty Interaction Committee and Undergraduate Economics Society, 1997-2000.

Service to the Profession

Referee for:

Economics of Governance
International Review of Economics and Finance
International Journal of Economic Theory
Macroeconomic Dynamics
Journal of Public Economic Theory
Eastern Economic Journal
Journal of Economic Surveys
International Economic Review
Economics Letters
Journal of Economic Education
Resource and Energy Economics
Journal of Economics
Journal of Money, Credit and Banking
European Economic Review
Review of Economic Dynamics
National Science Foundation Grants Committee
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
Review of Economic Dynamics
Journal of Economic Theory
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
Metroeconomica
Journal of Macroeconomics
Journal of Quantitative Economics
American Economic Review
Economic Theory

Served as a mentor at the CSWEP CeMENT conference, February 2007.
Pitzer College Economics Field Group External Review, Claremont, CA, April 2008

Other Related Activities

Reviewer for Introductory Econometrics, by Ramu Ramanathan, 2002.
Advisor for Production of Video to Teach Macroeconomics, University Access.