Courses Taught

My most recent teaching experience has been a two-lecture sequence on monetary policy for masters of financial economics students at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. The goal of these lectures is to build an understanding of how policy makers think about monetary policy's affects on the real economy and inflation so that the students could listen to a FOMC press conference and follow the discussion.

Before joining the Federal Reserve, I was an assistant professor at the University of TExas at Austin from 2011-2018. I taught the first semester of graduate core macroeconomic theory and undergraduate intermediate macroeconomics. My instructor evaluations averaged 4.1 out of 5 (range from 4.0-4.2) in these courses. I also supervised several undergraduate senior thesis projects.

I advised graduate students at Texas from 2011-2018. I was on committees for the following PhD students and was advisor or co-advisor for those marked with *:

2012: Jorge Barro (Fellow, Baker Institute - Rice University)
2013: Ayse Kabukcuoglu* (Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University)
2013: Ahmet Ali Taskin* (Researcher, Ulm University)
2014: Chacko George (Senior Economist, FDIC)
2015: Florian Kuhn (Assistant Professor, SUNY Binghamton)
2016: Nicholas Buchholz (Assistant Professor, Princeton University)
2017: Hassan Afrouzi (Assistant Professor, Columbia University)
2018: Neil White (Assistant Professor, Amherst College)