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Hie Joo Ahn

Principal Economist Current Macroeconomic Conditions Section Research and Statistics
202-728-5875
[email protected]

Education

  • Ph.D., Economics, University of California - San Diego, 2015
  • B.A., Business Administration, Seoul National University, 2004
Current Research Topics
  • Labor market and inflation dynamics
  • Forecasting
  • Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

    2015 - present
  • A New Indicator of Common Wage Inflation
    Hie Joo Ahn, Han Chen, and Michael Kister
    Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (Forthcoming)
  • Effects of monetary policy on household expectations: The role of homeownership
    Hie Joo Ahn, Shihan Xie, and Choongryul Yang
    Journal of Monetary Economics (2024)
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmoneco.2024.103599
    See also » FRB Working Paper (2022)
  • Disagreement About the Term Structure of Inflation Expectations
    Hie Joo Ahn and Leland E. Farmer
    Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2024)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2024.084
  • Common and Idiosyncratic Inflation
    Hie Joo Ahn and Matteo Luciani
    Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2024)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2020.024r1
  • (Re-)Connecting Inflation and the Labor Market: A Tale of Two Curves
    Hie Joo Ahn and Jeremy B. Rudd
    Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2024)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2024.050
  • Duration structure of unemployment hazards and the trend unemployment rate
    Hie Joo Ahn
    Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control (2023)
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jedc.2023.104664
  • The Dual U.S. Labor Market Uncovered
    Hie Joo Ahn, Bart Hobijn, and Ayşegül Şahin
    Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2023)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2023.031
  • The role of observed and unobserved heterogeneity in the duration of unemployment
    Hie Joo Ahn
    Journal of Applied Econometrics (2023)
    https://doi.org/10.1002/jae.2940
    See also » FRB Working Paper (2022)
  • Effects of Monetary Policy on Household Expectations: The Role of Homeownership
    Hie Joo Ahn, Shihan Xie, and Choongryul Yang
    Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2022)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2022.065
  • Measuring labor-force participation and the incidence and duration of unemployment
    Hie Joo Ahn and James D. Hamilton
    Review of Economic Dynamics (2022)
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.red.2021.04.005
    See also » FRB Working Paper (2019)
  • The Role of Observed and Unobserved Heterogeneity in the Duration of Unemployment Spells
    Hie Joo Ahn
    Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2022)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2016.063r1
  • Relative prices and pure inflation since the mid-1990s
    Hie Joo Ahn and Matteo Luciani
    Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2021)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2021.069
  • Research Data Series: Index of Common Inflation Expectations
    Hie Joo Ahn and Chad Fulton
    FEDS Notes (2021)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/2380-7172.2873
  • The Cyclicality of On-the-Job Search Effort
    Hie Joo Ahn and Ling Shao
    B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics (2021)
    https://doi.org/10.1515/bejm-2019-0245
  • Index of Common Inflation Expectations
    Hie Joo Ahn and Chad Fulton
    FEDS Notes (2020)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/2380-7172.2551
  • Revealing Cluster Structures Based on Mixed Sampling Frequencies
    Yeonwoo Rho, Yun Liu, and Hie Joo Ahn
    Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2020)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2020.082
  • A New Indicator of Common Wage Inflation
    Hie Joo Ahn, Han Chen, and Michael Kister
    FEDS Notes (2020)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/2380-7172.2550
  • Heterogeneity and Unemployment Dynamics
    Hie Joo Ahn and James Hamilton
    Journal of Business & Economic Statistics (2020)
    https://doi.org/10.1080/07350015.2018.1530116
    See also » FRB Working Paper (2016)
  • Dynamic Beveridge Curve Accounting
    Hie Joo Ahn and Leland D. Crane
    Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2020)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2020.027
  • Factors in Unemployment Dynamics
    Hie Joo Ahn and James Hamilton
    FEDS Notes (2018)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/2380-7172.2274
  • Precautionary On-the-Job Search over the Business Cycle
    Hie Joo Ahn and Ling Shao
    Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2017)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2017.025
  • Heterogeneity in the Dynamics of Disaggregate Unemployment
    Hie Joo Ahn
    Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2016)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2016.063
  • Heterogeneity and Unemployment Dynamics
    Hie Joo Ahn and James D. Hamilton
    NBER Working Paper Series (2016)
    https://doi.org/10.3386/w22451
    See also » FRB Working Paper (2016)
  • Heterogeneity and Unemployment Dynamics
    Hie Joo Ahn
    University of California, San Diego (2015)
    See also » FRB Working Paper (2016)
Conference Organization

  • May 18th-19th, 2017 | Federal Reserve Board

    Labor Market Dynamics and the Macroeconomy: Theory and Evidence

    Organizer

  • April 11st-12nd,2019 | Federal Reserve Board

    First DC Search & Matching Workshop

    Organizer

Referee
  • Quarterly Journal of Economics
  • Journal of Political Economy
  • American Economic Review
  • Review of Economic Studies
  • American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
  • American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
  • International Economic Review
  • Journal of Human Resources
  • Journal of Applied Econometrics
  • Journal of Money, Credit and Banking
  • Journal of Economic Theory
  • B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics
  • Empirical Economics
Professional Affiliation
  • American Economic Association
  • Econometric Society
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Last Update: October 15, 2024