Alex Wolman is vice president for monetary and macroeconomic research in the Research Department. Wolman has published articles in several economics journals, including the Quarterly Journal of Economics and the Review of Economic Studies.
Wolman joined the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond as an economist in 1996 after earning his doctorate from the University of Virginia. His research has focused on applied monetary economics.
"What Should the Monetary Authority Do When Prices Are Sticky?" (with Robert G. King) in Monetary Policy Rules, edited by John B. Taylor, University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Computer programs for "Monetary Policy and Global Equilibria in a Production Economy" (with Tim Hursey). Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Economic Quarterly 96, no. 4 (Fourth Quarter 2010): 317-337.
"The Calvo Model without Local Approximation" (with Andreas Hornstein). Unpublished manuscript, April 2007.
"Synchronization and Staggering in a Model of State-Dependent Pricing" (with A. Andrew John). Unpublished manuscript, June 2005.
"The Optimal Rate of Inflation with Trending Relative Prices." Unpublished manuscript, May 2005.
"Heterogeneous Frequency of Price Adjustment" (with A. Andrew John). Unpublished manuscript, September 2003.