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Andrew C. Chang

Principal Economist Microeconomic Surveys Section Research and Statistics
andrew.c.chang@frb.gov

Education

  • Ph.D., Economics, University of California - Irvine, 2013
  • B.S., Economics, University of Washington, 2006
  • B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, 2006
  • Principal Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

    2019 - present
  • Senior Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

    2016 - 2019
  • Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

    2013 - 2016
  • Design Engineer

    Boeing Company

    2006 - 2008
  • Chang, Andrew C., and Phillip Li (forthcoming). "Is Economics Research Replicable? Sixty Published Papers from Thirteen Journals Say "Often Not"," Critical Finance Review.
  • Berge, Travis J., Andrew C. Chang, and Nitish R. Sinha (2019). "Evaluating the Conditionality of Judgmental Forecasts," International Journal of Forecasting, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 1627-1635.
  • Chang, Andrew C. (2018). "Tax Policy Endogeneity: Evidence from R&D Tax Credits," Economics of Innovation and New Technology, vol. 27, no. 8, pp. 809-833.
  • Chang, Andrew C., and Phillip Li (2018). "Measurement Error in Macroeconomic Data and Economics Research: Data Revisions, Gross Domestic Product, and Gross Domestic Income," Economic Inquiry, vol. 56, no. 3, pp. 1846-1869.
  • Chang, Andrew C. (2018). "A Replication Recipe: List Your Ingredients Before You Start Cooking," Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal, vol. 12, (2018-39), pp. 1-8.
  • Chang, Andrew C., Phillip Li, and Shawn M. Martin (2018). "Comparing Cross-Country Estimates of Lorenz Curves Using a Dirichlet Distribution Across Estimators and Datasets," Journal of Applied Econometrics, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 473-478.
  • Chang, Andrew C., and Phillip Li (2017). "A Preanalysis Plan to Replicate Sixty Economics Research Papers That Worked Half of the Time," American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, vol. 107, no. 5, pp. 60-64.
  • Chang, Andrew C. (2017). "Banking Consolidation and Small Firm Financing for Research and Development," Applied Economics, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 51-65.
  • Chang, Andrew C., and Tyler J. Hanson (2016). "The Accuracy of Forecasts Prepared for the Federal Open Market Committee," Journal of Economics and Business, vol. 83, pp. 23-43.
  • Chang, Andrew C. (2013). "Inter-Industry Strategic R&D and Supplier-Demander Relationships," The Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 95, no. 2, pp. 491-499.
  • Chang, Andrew C., and Trace J. Levinson (2020). "Raiders of the Lost High-Frequency Forecasts: New Data and Evidence on the Efficiency of the Fed's Forecasting," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2020-090. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
  • Bhutta, Neil, Jesse Bricker, Andrew C. Chang, Lisa J. Dettling, Sarena Goodman, Joanne W. Hsu, Kevin B. Moore, Sarah Reber, Alice Henriques Volz, and Richard A. Windle (2020). "Changes in U.S. Family Finances from 2016 to 2019: Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances," Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol. 106, no. 5 (September).
  • Bhutta, Neil, Andrew C. Chang, Lisa J. Dettling, and Joanne W. Hsu (2020). "Disparities in Wealth by Race and Ethnicity in the 2019 Survey of Consumer Finances," FEDS Notes 2020-09-28. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
  • Anenberg, Elliot, Andrew C. Chang, Serafin Grundl, Kevin Moore, and Richard Windle (2018). "The Branch Puzzle: Why Are there Still Bank Branches?" FEDS Notes 2018-08-20. Washington: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
  • Chang, Andrew C. (2018). "Nothing is Certain Except Death and Taxes: The Lack of Policy Uncertainty from Expiring "Temporary" Taxes," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2018-041. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
  • Chang, Andrew C., Joanne W. Hsu, Sarah J. Pack, and Michael G. Palumbo (2018). "Where's the Money Going? The Importance of Accounting for Rent Payments in Measuring a Household's Financial Obligations," FEDS Notes 2018-06-20. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
  • Chang, Andrew C. (2018). "The Fed's Asymmetric Forecast Errors," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2018-026. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
Referee
  • Economic Inquiry
  • Economic Journal
  • Journal of Economics and Business
  • Journal of Public Economics
  • Journal of Urban Economics
  • Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
  • Research Policy
Last update: November 2, 2020