Contact Information
202-452-2368
ralph.tryon@frb.gov

Fields of Interest
International Finance
Open Economy Macroeconomics
Econometrics and Statistics

Education
Ph.D., Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1979
B.A., Economics, Swarthmore College, 1971

Professional Experience
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 1979-present
Economist, International Monetary Fund, 1988-1989
Instructor, Northeastern University, 1976-1979

Selected Publications

• ''Output and Inflation in the Long Run'' (with Neil Ericsson and John Irons), Journal of Applied Econometrics, vol. 16 (2001), pp. 241-53.
• Monetary Policy and Price Stability (with Karen Johnson and David Small), International Finance Discussion Papers 641. Washington: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 1999.
• ''The Evolution of Macro Models at the Federal Reserve Board'' (with Jon Faust), Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, vol. 47 (December 1997), pp. 43-82.
• ''A Distributed Block Approach to Solving Near-Block-Diagonal Systems with an Application to a Large Macroeconometric Model'' (with Jon Faust and John Irons), Computational Economics, vol. 8 (1995), pp. 303-16.
• ''Stochastic Behavior of the World Economy Under Alternative Policy Rules'' (with Joseph Gagnon), in R. Bryant, P. Hooper, C. Mann, and R. Tryon, eds., Evaluating Policy Regimes: New Research in Empirical Economics. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1992.
• ''Macroeconomic Effects of Projected Population Aging in Industrial Countries'' (with Paul Masson), IMF Staff Papers, vol. 37 (September 1990), pp. 453-85.
• ''Small Empirical Models of Exchange Market Intervention: Applications to Canada, Germany, and Japan'' (with Deborah Danker), Journal of Policy Modeling, vol. 9 (1987), pp. 143-74.
• ''An Analysis of External Debt Positions of Eight Developing Countries Through 1990,'' Journal of Development Economics, vol. 21 (1986), pp. 283-318.
• Small Empirical Models of Exchange Market Intervention: A Review of the Literature, Staff Study 134. Washington: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 1983.
• Testing for Rational Expectations in Foreign Exchange Markets, International Finance Discussion Papers 139. Washington: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 1979.