Our Team
Christian Matthes
Christian Matthes was a senior economist in the Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond from 2013 to 2020. Matthes is currently a professor of economics at Indiana University.
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Bank Publications
Economic Brief, September 2023, No. 23-32
The updates result in a less volatile r* series that more closely reflects our prior belief as to where r* likely is.
Thomas A. Lubik and Christian Matthes
Economic Brief, August 2021, No. 21-25Household consumption shocks have accounted for close to 40 percent of pre-pandemic business cycle fluctuations.
Christian Matthes and Felipe F. Schwartzman
Economic Brief, September 2020, No. 20-10In this brief, we focus on North Carolina and Washington, D.C., since they have experienced different trajectories of COVID-19 and may have different implications for the efficacy of our approach.
Paul Ho, Thomas A. Lubik and Christian Matthes
Special Reports, May 8, 2020Paul Ho, Thomas A. Lubik and Christian Matthes
Economic Brief, August 2019, No. 19-08Laura Liu, Christian Matthes, Katerina Petrova and Jessie Romero
Economic Brief, April 2019, No. 19-04This brief makes the case that research and policy should focus on four aspects of economic fluctuations: a short-term component (cycles of less than two years), a business cycle component (cycles between two and eight years), a medium-term component (cycles up to thirty-two years), and a long-term component (the trend).
Renee Haltom, Thomas A. Lubik, Christian Matthes and Fabio Verona
Economic Quarterly, First Quarter 2019Thomas A. Lubik and Christian Matthes
Economic Brief, September 2018, No. 18-09Thomas A. Lubik, Christian Matthes and David A. Price
Economic Brief, September 2017, No. 17-09According to the authors, two factors could lead to an asymmetric multiplier: (i) financial frictions and (ii) downward nominal rigidities (that is, downwardly "sticky" wages and prices). This finding sheds light on likely outcomes of fiscal policies and helps account for inconsistent estimates of the multiplier in the literature.
Regis Barnichon, Christian Matthes and David A. Price
Economic Brief, March 2017, No. 17-03Regis Barnichon, Christian Matthes and Tim Sablik
Economic Brief, November 2016, No. 16-11Thomas A. Lubik, Christian Matthes and Tim Sablik
Economic Quarterly, Third Quarter 2016Thomas A. Lubik, Christian Matthes and Andrew Owens
Economic Brief, October 2015, No. 15-10Thomas A. Lubik and Christian Matthes
Economic Quarterly, Fourth Quarter 2015Thomas A. Lubik and Christian Matthes
Economic Brief, January 2014, No. 14-01In response to the financial crisis and recession of 2007-09, the federal government enacted a number of emergency fiscal policies intended to aid recovery. However, the unconventional and transitory nature of these fiscal policies may have contributed to greater economic uncertainty.
Christian Matthes and Tim Sablik
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Working Papers
February 2023, No. 23-04
In this paper, we develop a methodology that delivers an encompassing approach to computing dynamic responses of macroeconomic variables to shocks.
Paul Ho, Thomas A. Lubik and Christian Matthes
August 2021, No. 21-14RHee Soo Kim, Christian Matthes and Toan Phan
August 2020, No. 20-10Paul Ho, Thomas A. Lubik and Christian Matthes
September 2019, No. 19-17Thomas A. Lubik, Christian Matthes and Elmar Mertens
April 2019, No. 19-10Francesca Loria, Christian Matthes and Donghai Zhang
March 2019, No. 19-09RChristian Matthes and Felipe F. Schwartzman
February 2019, No. 19-06Christian Matthes, Thomas A. Lubik and Fabio Verona
August 2018, No. 18-14Laura Liu, Christian Matthes and Katerina Petrova
July 2018, No. 18-12Fabio Canova and Christian Matthes
December 2017, No. 17-15Regis Barnichon and Christian Matthes
November 2016, No. 16-15Regis Barnichon, Christian Matthes and Alexander Ziegenbein
August 2016, No. 16-09Pooyan Amir-Ahmadi, Christian Matthes and Mu-Chun Wang
July 2016, No. 16-08Regis Barnichon and Christian Matthes
November 2015, No. 15-13Pooyan Amir-Ahmadi, Christian Matthes and Mu-Chun Wang
September 2015, No. 15-11Christian Matthes and Josef Hollmayr
September 2015, No. 15-10Fabio Canova, Filippo Ferroni and Christian Matthes
April 2014, No. 14-10Pooyan Amir-Ahmadi, Christian Matthes and Mu-Chun Wang
March 2014, No. 14-07Timothy Cogley, Christian Matthes and Argia M. Sbordone
February 2014, No. 14-02Thomas A. Lubik and Christian Matthes
October 2013, No. 13-15In this paper we ask how uncertainty about fiscal policy affects the impact of fiscal policy changes on the economy when the government tries to counteract a deep recession.
Christian Matthes and Josef Hollmayr
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Regional Matters
April 23, 2020
How many COVID-19 cases will there be in the coming days and months? While the Fifth District appears to be past the peak number of daily cases, a wide range of future outcomes is still possible.
Paul Ho, Thomas A. Lubik and Christian Matthes
Our Team
Christian Matthes
My research fields are macroeconomics and Bayesian econometrics. Currently, I am studying economic models that feature imperfect information and statistical models with time-varying parameters.