Professional Experience

• • Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

  • 2011 - present

• • Visiting Associate Professor

    The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

  • 2008 - 2011

• • Associate Professor

    Université du Québec à Montréal

  • 2006 - 2011

• • Assistant Professor

    Université du Québec à Montréal

  • 2006 - 2011

Publications

• Danthine, Jean-Pierre, and André Kurmann (2010). "The Business Cycle Implications of Reciprocity in Labor Relations," Journal of Monetary Economics, vol. 57, no. 7, pp. 837-850.
• Danthine, Jean-Pierre, and André Kurmann (2007). "The Macroeconomic Consequences of Reciprocity in Labor Relations," Scandinavian Journal of Economics, vol. 109, no. 4, pp. 857-881.
• Kurmann, André (2007). "VAR-Based Estimation of Euler Equations with an Application to New Keynesian Pricing," Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 767-796.
• Danthine, Jean-Pierre, and André Kurmann (2006). "Efficiency Wages Revisited: The Internal Reference Perspective," Economics Letters, vol. 90, no. 2, pp. 278-284.
• Kurmann, André (2005). "Quantifying the Uncertainty about the Fit of a New Keynesian Pricing Model," Journal of Monetary Economics, vol. 52, no. 6, pp. 1119-1134.
• Danthine, Jean-Pierre, and André Kurmann (2004). "Fair Wages in a New Keynesian Model of the Business Cycle," Review of Economic Dynamics, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 107-142.
• King, Robert G., and André Kurmann (2002). "Expectations and the Team Structure of Interest Rates: Evidence and Implications," Economic Quarterly, vol. 88, no. 4, pp. 49.

Presentations

• seminar

  November 2011

  University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

  News Shocks and the Term Structure of Interest Rates: A Challenge for DSGE Models

• seminar

  November 2011

  Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Dallas, Texas

  The Great Increase in Relative Wage Volatility in the United States

• conference

  July 2011

  Society of Economic Dynamics annual conference, Ghent, Belgium

  News Shocks and the Term Structure of Interest Rates: A Challenge for DSGE Models

• conference

  June 2011

  IAB Nuremberg labor market conference, Nuremberg, Germany

  The Great Increase in Relative Wage Volatility in the United States

• seminar

  June 2011

  Ente Einaudi Institute, Rome, Italy

  News Shocks and the Term Structure of Interest Rates: A Challenge for DSGE Models

• seminar

  February 2011

  Wharton Finance, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

  News Shocks and the Term Structure of Interest Rates: A Challenge for DSGE Models

• seminar

  February 2011

  Study Center Gerzensee, Gerzensee, Switzerland

  News Shocks and the Slope of the Term Structure of Interest Rates

• seminar

  January 2011

  Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D.C.

  News Shocks and the Slope of the Term Structure of Interest Rates

• conference

  November 2010

  CREI-CEPR labor market conference, Barcelona, Spain

  The Great Increase in Relative Wage Volatility in the United States

• conference

  July 2010

  Society of Economic Dynamics annual conference, Montreal, Canada

  The Great Increase in Relative Wage Volatility in the United States

• seminar

  February 2010

  Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

  News Shocks and the Slope of the Term Structure of Interest Rates

• seminar

  February 2010

  Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia

  News Shocks and the Slope of the Term Structure of Interest Rates

• conference

  July 2009

  Society of Economic Dynamics annual conference, Istanbul, Turkey

  Optimal Capital Taxation in an Economy with Capital Allocation Frictions

• seminar

  May 2009

  Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, California

  News Shocks and the Slope of the Term Structure of Interest Rates

• seminar

  May 2009

  European Central Bank, Frankfurt, Germany

  The Business Cycle Implications of Reciprocity in Labor Relations

• seminar

  May 2009

  CIRPEE macro workshop, Toulouse, France

  News Shocks and the Slope of the Term Structure of Interest Rates

• seminar

  April 2009

  Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

  News Shocks and the Slope of the Term Structure of Interest Rates

Other Activities