Contact Information
202-452-3057
david.e.lebow@frb.gov

Fields of Interest
Macroeconomics
Prices

Education
Ph.D., Economics, Princeton University, 1989
S.B., Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983

Professional Experience
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 1989-present
Senior Economist, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 1998-2006
Senior Economist, Bank for International Settlements, 2003-2004
Special Assistant to Vice Chairman Alan Blinder, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 1994-1995
Economist, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 1989-1997
Research Fellow, Brookings Institution, 1988-1989
Research Assistant, World Bank, 1985-1986

Selected Publications

• ''The Monetisation of Japan's Government Debt,'' in Daniele Franco, ed., Public Debt. Rome, Italy: Bank of Italy, 2005, forthcoming.
• Inflation Measurement (with Jeremy B. Rudd), Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2006-43. Washington: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 2006.
• ''Measurement Error in the Consumer Price Index: Where Do We Stand?'' (with Jeremy B. Rudd), Journal of Economic Literature, vol. 41 (March 2003), pp. 159-201.
• ''Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity: Evidence from the Employment Cost Index'' (with Raven E. Saks and Beth Anne Wilson), Advances in Macroeconomics, Article 2, vol. 3 (2003), pp. 1-28.
• Recent Trends in Compensation Practices (with Louise Sheiner, Larry Slifman, and Martha Starr-McCluer), Finance and Economics Discussion Series 1999-32. Washington: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 1999.
• Asking About Prices: A New Approach to Understanding Price Stickiness (with Alan S. Blinder, Elie R. D. Canetti, and Jeremy B. Rudd). : Russell Sage Foundation, 1998.
• Inflation, Nominal Wage Rigidity, and the Efficiency of Labor Markets (with David J. Stockton and William L. Wascher), Finance and Economics Discussion Series 1995-45. Washington: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 1995.
• ''Is the Shift toward Employment in Services Stabilizing?'' (with Daniel E. Sichel), in Patrick T. Harker, ed., The Service Productivity and Quality Challenge. The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995.
• ''Import Competition and Wages: The Role of the Nontradable Goods Sector,'' Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 75 (August 1993), pp. 552-58.