Tatevik Sekhposyan

Education

• Ph.D., Economics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 2010
• M.A., Economics, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, 2004
• B.A., Economics and Business Information Systems, Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana, 2001

Research Interests

• Macroeconomics
• Monetary Theory
• Time Series and Bayesian Econometrics

Publications

Refereed Publications

• “Evaluating Predictive Densities of U.S. Output Growth and Inflation in a Large Macroeconomic Data Set”
  (with Barbara Rossi), International Journal of Forecasting, forthcoming. (Matlab codes)
• "Conditional Predictive Density Evaluation in the Presence of Instabilities,"
  (with Barbara Rossi), Journal of Econometrics, forthcoming. (Matlab Codes)
• “Okun’s Law over the Business Cycle: Was the Great Recession All that Different?”
  (with Michael Owyang), Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, September/October 2012, 94(5), 399-418. (Matlab codes)
• "The Local Effects of Monetary Policy,"
  (with Neville Francis and Michael Owyang), The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics 12 (2) (Advances), 2012. (Appendix, Matlab codes)
• "Understanding Models' Forecasting Performance,"
  (with Barbara Rossi), Journal of Econometrics 164(1), 2011, 158-172. (Matlab codes)
• "Have Economic Models' Forecasting Performance for US Output Growth and Inflation Changed Over Time, and When?"
  (with Barbara Rossi), International Journal of Forecasting 26 (4), 2010, 808-835. (Appendix, Matlab codes)

Research Papers

• "Forecast Optimality Tests in the Presence of Instabilities"
  (with Barbara Rossi), (Matlab codes)