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@cmatthes.bsky.social

Econ Professor @ ND. Macroeconomics and (mainly Bayesian) Econometrics

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Department of Economics adds 11 leading scholars to its faculty, including two endowed chairs The Department of Economics in the College of Arts & Letters at the University of Notre Dame has added 11 new economists to its faculty, including t...

We had a banner year with hiring last year, adding 11 (yes, 11!) new full-time faculty members. Check out this @ArtsLettersND news story highlighting the new members of our community:

al.nd.edu/news/latest-...

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30.09.2025 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Consumption Origins of Business Cycles: Lessons from Sectoral Dynamics (October 2025) - We measure the impact of household consumption shocks on aggregate fluctuations. These shocks affect household consumption directly, and production and prices indirectly through their...

Hot off the presses at AEJ: Macro, "The Consumption Origins of Business Cycles: Lessons from Sectoral Dynamics" @aeajournals.bsky.social from our colleague Christian Matthes and Felipe Schwartzman

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

29.09.2025 14:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Connor Brennan, Maggie Jacobson, Todd Walker, and I have now made the shock series we created for our β€œMonetary Policy Shocks: Data or Methods?” paper public. Any comments are greatly appreciated!

Data: doi.org/10.7910/DVN/MQ…

Paper: cm1518.github.io/files/BMW.pdf

28.06.2025 02:33 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

I am blessed and excited to move to Notre Dame. A fantastic department with many great colleagues in a special university.

14.02.2025 23:25 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve never liked cupcakes, but this might just change my mind.

18.01.2025 03:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s really been a labor of love - glad to see the paper finally out!

01.01.2025 00:01 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve been playing around with o1 pro mode, but for the things I had it do it didn’t seem worth the price relative to the $20 package. Any recommendations for tasks/prompts where pro mode shines? ( I wonder if the tasks I was asking it to do were too simple)

31.12.2024 19:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Listen guys, I don’t want to brag, but it looks like Econometrica really wants to publish my work

04.12.2024 14:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That thread is basically worth tenure

21.11.2024 01:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ethan is a great economist, but I think he found his true calling with this thread.

21.11.2024 01:35 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œDetached from reality”? I strongly disagree. In terms of price levels (which is what households really care about), the change over the last few years was significant and permanent. Wages for many have not caught up, so these are real effects.

18.11.2024 01:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Great two day visit at the Cleveland Fed. I learned a lot!

16.11.2024 03:13 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Crazy to think that 100 years ago the next stop on my train was the epicenter of math and physics research worldwide

25.10.2023 12:42 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Da kommen Erinnerungen an die 80er hoch

18.10.2023 21:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Rudi auf dem Weg ins Football Stadion πŸ˜‰

10.10.2023 11:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Highly recommended!

08.10.2023 21:53 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Great quote! Makes me think of some fields in economics that still rely on static models, but then want to discuss the effects of policy changes.

07.10.2023 00:37 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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From a dinner talk by Lars Hansen at the conference in honor of my colleague Joon Park.
This tension was huge when I was at the Fed - understanding (and appreciating) uncertainty is something many policymakers should work on.

30.09.2023 02:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Stars Our Destination: An Update for Our R* Model The updates result in a less volatile r* series that more closely reflects our prior belief as to where r* likely is.

Come for the explanation why Thomas Lubik and I changed priors, stay for the many, many, many star based puns 🫣

www.richmondfed.org/publications...

27.09.2023 19:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Apparently Heisenberg didn’t need Linear Algebra to get into grad school 😁
( from β€œThe Man from the Future” by A. Bhattacharya)

24.09.2023 18:51 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Associate or Full Professor in Economics The Department of Economics at Indiana University, Bloomington invites applications for tenured position at the rank of Associate or Full Professor in the field of Macroeconomics to begin in the fall ...

We’re hiring at IU! In particular, we’re looking to hire an endowed chair in macro. If you are interested feel free to reach out! I think we have a great department with lots of people doing really cool research.

indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/20326

22.09.2023 21:41 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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