Speeches, Articles and Research
How to pronounce his name:
Nahr-ay-yah-nah Koach-er-lah-ko-tah
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Narayana Kocherlakota became the 12th president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis on Oct. 8, 2009.
Prior to becoming president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Kocherlakota was a professor of economics at the University of Minnesota, where he previously chaired the economics department, and a consultant to the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. He was also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. From 1996 to 1998, he was a Research staff member at the Minneapolis Fed.
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As Minneapolis Fed President
Speeches
- More Thoughts on a Liftoff Plan,
Great Falls, Montana, October 10, 2012
- Planning for Liftoff,
Ironwood, Michigan, September 20, 2012
- Planning for Liftoff - Video Summary,
Ironwood, Michigan, September 20, 2012
- Welcoming Remarks,
Minneapolis, Minnesota, August 27, 2012
- The Role of Federal Reserve Bank Directors,
Minot, North Dakota, August 15, 2012
Articles, Papers and Messages
- Sargent and Sims: Only Connecting, The Region, June 2012
- Statement for Local Twin Cities Media Briefing, Messages, February 2012
- Kocherlakota Discusses FOMC Experiences in an Interview for an Employee Newsletter, Messages, January 2012
- The Value of Outreach, The Region, December 2011
- Kocherlakota Congratulates Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims, Winners of the 2011 Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, Messages, October 2011
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Research as a Minneapolis Fed Economist
- Incomplete Labor Markets - Presentation Slides [PDF]
National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. -
Summer Institute
Cambridge, Massachusetts
July 13, 2012
- Central Bank Independence and Sovereign Default [PDF] [off-site]
April 2012
- Incomplete Labor Markets
March 2012
- Money and Bonds: An Equivalence Theorem
July 2007 - Staff Report 393
- Household Heterogeneity and Real Exchange Rates
April 2006 - Staff Report 372
Published In: Economic Journal (Vol. 117, 2007, pp. C1-C25)
- Optimal Monetary Policy: What We Know and What We Don’t Know
October 2005 - Quarterly Review 2912
Published In: International Economic Review (Vol. 46, No. 2, May 2005, pp. 715-729)
- Optimal Indirect and Capital Taxation
September 2001 - Staff Report 293
Published In: Review of Economic Studies (Vol. 70, No. 3, July 2003, pp. 569-587)
- Looking for Evidence of Time-Inconsistent Preferences in Asset Market Data
July 2001 - Quarterly Review 2532
- Optimal Indirect and Capital Taxation
June 2001 - Working Paper 615
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Prior Economic Research
This list includes only a selection of papers; view all prior research for more, sorted by topic and date. See CV [PDF] for full citations.
Asset Pricing and Portfolio Choice
Cycles and Growth
- "Creating Business Cycles Through Credit Constraints," Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Quarterly Review, 2000.
- "Using Theory for Measurement: Measuring the Cyclical Behavior of Home Production," Journal of Monetary Economics, joint with B. F. Ingram and N. E. Savin, 1997.
- "Is there Endogenous Long Run Growth? Evidence from the United States and the United Kingdom," Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, joint with K. Yi, 1997.
Dynamic Contracting and Dynamic Games
Money and Banking
- "Internal Debt Crises and Sovereign Defaults," working paper, joint with C. Arellano, 2008.
- "Forbearance and Prompt Corrective Action," Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, joint with I. Shim, 2007.
- "Model Fit and Model Selection," Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, 2007.
Optimal Taxation
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