Randal Verbrugge, Ph.D.
Research Economist
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Division of Price Index Number Research
Contact Information
202-691-6587
Email
Fields of Interest
Macro, Int’l Macro, Growth and Development, Time Series
Education
Ph.D., Economics, Stanford University, 1995
M.S., Statistics, Stanford University, 1993
B.A. (Honors), Social Sciences, Calvin College, 1989
Professional Experience
Research Economist, Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2001-present
Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University, 2002-present
Assistant Professor, VPI&SU, 1995-2001
Selected Publications and Working Papers
- "Investigating Cyclical Asymmetries." Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics 2.1, 1997, 15-22.
- "Interactive Agent Economies: An Elucidative Framework and Survey of Results." Macroeconomic Dynamics 7.3, 2003, 424-472.
- "How Corruption Evolves (or, Why Do Some Regions Within a Country Become More Corrupt Than Others?)." Journal of Public Economic Theory 8.2, 2006, 219-245.
- "Frequency Dependence in Regression Model Coefficients: An Alternative Approach for Modeling Nonlinear Dynamic Relationships in Time Series" (with Richard Ashley). Econometric Reviews, forthcoming 2007.
- "The Puzzling Divergence of Aggregate Rents and User Costs, 1980-2004." Working Paper, Bureau of Labor Statistics
- "Do the CPI's Utilities Adjustments for OER Distort Inflation Measurement?" Working Paper, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
- "Explaining the Rent-OER Inflation Divergence, 1999-2006" (with Rob Poole). BLS Working Paper 410.
- "Local Complementarities and Aggregate Fluctuations." Working paper, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
- "Improving the CPI's Age-Bias Adjustment: Leverage, Disaggregation and Model-Averaging" (with Joshua Gallin). BLS Working Paper 411.
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