Professional Experience

• • Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

  • 2007 - present

• • Invited Lecturer

    Barcelona Graduate School of Economics

  • 2009 - present

• • Intern Economist

    International Monetary Fund

  • 2006

• • Intern Economist

    Bank of Portugal

  • 2001 - 2002

Publications

• Durdu, C. Bora, Ricardo Nunes, and Horacio Sapriza (Forthcoming). "News and Sovereign Default Risk in Small Open Economies," Journal of International Economics.
• Debortoli, Davide, and Ricardo Nunes (Forthcoming). "Lack of Commitment and the Level of Debt," Journal of the European Economic Association.
• Bodenstein, Martin, James Hebden, and Ricardo Nunes (2012). "Imperfect Credibility and the Zero Lower Bound," Journal of Monetary Economics, vol. 59, no. 2, pp. 135-149.
• Debortoli, Davide, Junior Maih, and Ricardo Nunes (Forthcoming). "Loose Commitment in Medium-Scale Macroeconomic Models: Theory and Applications," Macroeconomic Dynamics.
• Nunes, Ricardo (2010). "Inflation Dynamics: The Role of Expectations," Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, vol. 42, no. 6, pp. 1161-1172.
• Debortoli, Davide, and Ricardo Nunes (2010). "Fiscal Policy Under Loose Commitment," Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 145, no. 3, pp. 1005-1032.
• Kumhof, Michael, Ricardo Nunes, and Irina Yakadina (2010). "Simple Monetary Rules Under Fiscal Dominance," Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 63-92.
• Nunes, Ricardo (2009). "Learning the Inflation Target," Macroeconomic Dynamics, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 167-188.
• Nunes, Ricardo (2009). "On the Epidemiological Microfoundations of Sticky Information," Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, vol. 71, no. 5, pp. 643-657.
• Debortoli, Davide, Junior Maih, and Ricardo Nunes (2011). "Loose Commitment in Medium-Scale Macroeconomic Models: Theory and Applications," International Finance Discussion Papers 1034. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
• Debortoli, Davide, and Ricardo Nunes (2011). "Monetary Regime Switches and Unstable Objectives," International Finance Discussion Papers 1036. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
• Bodenstein, Martin, James Hebden, and Ricardo Nunes (2010). "Imperfect Credibility and the Zero Lower Bound on the Nominal Interest Rate," International Finance Discussion Papers 1001. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
• Durdu, Ceyhun Bora, Ricardo Nunes, and Horacio Sapriza (2010). "News and Sovereign Default Risk in Small Open Economies," International Finance Discussion Papers 997. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
• Debortoli, Davide, and Ricardo Nunes (2008). "Political Disagreement, Lack of Commitment and the Level of Debt," International Finance Discussion Papers 938. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
• Debortoli, Davide, and Ricardo Nunes (2008). "The Macroeconomic Effect of External Pressures on Monetary Policy," International Finance Discussion Papers 944. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
• Kumhof, Michael, Ricardo Nunes, and Irina Yakadina (2008). "Simple Monetary Rules Under Fiscal Dominance," International Finance Discussion Papers 937. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
• Debortoli, Davide, and Ricardo Nunes (2007). "Loose Commitment," International Finance Discussion Papers 916. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).

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