Professional Experience

• • Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

  • 2009 - present

• • Statistical Associate Editor

    Brookings Papers on Economic Activity

  • 2000 - 2002

Publications

• Nekarda, Christopher J., and Valerie A. Ramey (2011). "Industry Evidence on the Effects of Government Spending," American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 36-59.
• Nekarda, Christopher J., and Valerie A. Ramey (2010). "Industry Evidence on the Effects of Government Spending," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2010-28. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
• Nekarda, Christopher J., and Valerie A. Ramey (2010). "Industry Evidence on the Effects of Government Spending," NBER Working Papers 15754. National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
• Nekarda, Christopher J. (2008). "Measuring U.S. Labor Market Dynamics," Ph.D. dissertation, University of California.
• Fujita, Shigeru, Christopher J. Nekarda, and Garey Ramey (2007). "The Cyclicality of Worker Flows: New Evidence from the SIPP," Working Papers 07-5. Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.

Other Activities