Contact Information
202-452-3600
nathan.sheets@frb.gov

Fields of Interest
International Finance
Open Economy Macroeconomics
Development Economics

Education
Ph.D., Economics, M.I.T., 1993
B.A., Economics, Brigham Young University, 1989

Professional Experience
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 1993-present
Visiting Assistant Professor, Brigham Young University, 1996-1997
Senior Advisor to USED, International Monetary Fund, 2006-2007

Selected Publications

• ''Declining Exchange Rate Pass-through to U.S. Import Prices: The Potential Role of Global Factors'' (with Mario Marazzi), Journal of International Money and Finance, vol. 26 (October 2007), pp. 924-47.
• ''Exchange Rate Pass-through to Export Prices: Assessing Some Cross-Country Evidence'' (with Robert Vigfusson and Joseph Gagnon), Review of International Economics (forthcoming).
• U.S. External Adjustment: Is It Disorderly? Is It Unique? Will It Disrupt the Rest of the World? (with Steven Kamin and Trevor Reeve), International Finance Discussion Papers 892. Washington: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 2007.
• The Adjustment of Global External Imbalances: Does Partial Exchange Rate Pass-through to Trade Prices Matter? (with Christopher Gust), International Finance Discussion Papers 850. Washington: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 2006.
• ''Documenting FOMC Voting Patterns'' (with Ellen E. Meade), in The European Integration Process. Vienna: Oesterreichische Nationalbank, 2006.
• ''Regional Influences on FOMC Voting Patterns'' (with Ellen E. Meade), Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, vol. 37 (August 2005), pp. 661-77.
• ''Comment on 'Sovereign Bonds and the Collective Will' by Buchheit and Gulati,'' in Andrew G. Haldane, ed., Fixing Financial Crises in the Twenty-first Centry. London: Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking, 2004.
• ''Centralization vs. Decentralization in the Federal Reserve System: Lessons for the ECB'' (with Ellen E. Meade), in Ellen E. Meade, eds., The ECB: How Accountable? How Decentralized?. Washington, D.C.: American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, 1999.
• ''Eastern European Export Peformance during the Transition'' (with Simona Boata), Contemporary Economic Policy, vol. 16 (April 1998), pp. 211-26.
• ''Central Bank Independence, Inflation and Growth in Transition Economies'' (with Prakash Loungani), Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, vol. 29 (August 1997), pp. 381-99.
• ''Capital Flight from the Transition Economies,'' Journal of Policy Reform, vol. 1 (Winter 1996), pp. 259-77.