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Department of Economics
Emory
University
Atlanta, GA 30322
Phone:
(404) 727-2944
Fax: (404) 727-4639
Internet: skrause@emory.edu
http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~skrause/
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Curriculum
Vitae (as of December 2008)
Professional
Experience
Assistant
Professor, Department of Economics, Emory University, August 2002 to
present
- Monetary Theory and Macroeconomic Theory at graduate
level; Principles of Macroeconomics, Intermediate Macroeconomics and
Money and Banking at undergraduate level
Visiting Scholar, National Bureau of
Economic Research, September 2006 to November 2006
Graduate Research Associate, Department of Economics, The Ohio State University, September 1996 to June 1997; and September 2000 to June 2002
Research Fellow, Graduate Research Programme, European Central Bank, June 2001 to September 2001
Graduate
Teaching Associate, Department of Economics, The Ohio State University,
July 1997 to June 1998; and June 1999 to September 2000
- Microeconomic Theory at graduate level and Money and
Banking at undergraduate level
Economic Advisor, Ministry of Foreign Trade of Costa Rica, July 1998 to June 1999
Education
Ph.D., Economics, The Ohio State University, June 2002
M.A., Economics, The Ohio State University, August 1997
B.A.,
Economics, University of Costa Rica, March 1996
Research
Interests
monetary economics, international macroeconomics, political economics
Publications
(English)
“Corruption and Elections: An Empirical Study for a Cross-Section of Countries” (with F. Méndez), Economics & Politics, forthcoming.
"Institutions, Arrangements and Preferences for Inflation Stability: Evidence and Lessons from a Panel Data Analysis” (with F. Méndez); Journal of Macroeconomics, 30:1 (March 2008), pp. 282-307.
“Measuring Monetary Policy Efficiency in European Union Countries: The Pre-EMU Years”; ICFAI Journal of Monetary Economics, V:1 (February 2007); pp. 60-83.
“Inflation Targeting vs. Price-Path Targeting: Looking for Improvements” (with S. Cecchetti); Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Conference of the Central Bank of Chile: Monetary Policy under Inflation Targeting, edited by F. Mishkin and K. Schmidt-Hebbel, (January 2007), pp. 265-290. (also available as Working Paper of the Central Bank of Chile # 399)
“Optimal Monetary Policy and the Equivalency between the One-Period AD-AS Model and the Forward-Looking New Keynesian Model”; Applied Economics Letters, 13:9 (July 2006), pp. 541-544.
“Has Monetary Policy Become More Efficient? A Cross-Country Analysis” (with S. Cecchetti and A. Flores-Lagunes); The Economic Journal, 116:511 (April 2006), pp. 408-433.
“Assessing the Sources of Changes in the Volatility of Real Growth” (with S. Cecchetti and A. Flores-Lagunes); The Changing Nature of the Business Cycle, edited by C. Kent and D. Norman (October 2005), pp. 115-138.
“Deposit Insurance and External Finance” (with S. Cecchetti); Economic Inquiry, 43:3 (July 2005), pp. 531-541.
“Policy
Makers’ Preferences, Party
Ideology and the Political Business Cycle” (with F. Méndez);
Southern Economic Journal,
71:4 (April 2005), pp. 752-767.
- Data:
Estimates of Policy Makers' Preferences for Inflation Stability
(Lambdas) (Microsoft Excel File)
“Central
Bank Structure, Policy Efficiency and Macroeconomic Performance:
Exploring Empirical Relationships” (with S. Cecchetti), Economic
Review of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 79 (July/August
2002),
pp. 47-60.
Publications (Spanish)
“Estructura
Financiera, Estabilidad Macroeconómica y Política
Monetaria” (con S. Cecchetti); Moneda
y Crédito, No. 212,
Madrid, España, Agosto de 2001, pp. 57-87. (English
version available as NBER
working paper # 8354)
“¿Ha
Aumentado la Eficiencia de la Política Monetaria en
México?” (con S. Cecchetti y A. Flores-Lagunes); Documentos
de Investigación, Banco de México, México
D.F.,
México, Marzo de 2001.
“Influencia de las Noticias en el Comportamiento del Tipo de Cambio
Nominal: El Caso de Costa Rica (1990-1995)”; Instituto de
Investigaciones en Ciencias Económicas, San José,
Costa
Rica, Julio de 1996.
Some Recent Working Papers
“Latin American Banking Fragility: An Assessment of the Role Played by Foreign Banks” (with L. Jones)
“Financial
Development and Monetary Policy Efficiency” (with F. Rioja)
“Does
Opportunism go Unnoticed? A Study of Vote Functions and Policy
Preferences”
(with F. Méndez)