Economics Faculty Directory
Ryan Chahrour
Assistant Professor
Ryan Chahrour
Ph.D.
Contact
Maloney Hall 393
Telephone: 617-552-0902
Email: ryan.chahrour@bc.edu
Education
- B.A., Swarthmore College
- Ph.D., Columbia University
Courses
ECON2202 Macro Theory
ECON8860 Advanced Macro
Research Interests
Macroeconomics and monetary economics
Department
Selected Publications
"Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy in Customer Markets", 2015, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 47: 617-672
"Public Communication and Information Acquisition", 2014, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 6:3, 73-101
"A Model-Based Evaluation of the Debate on the Size of the Tax Multiplier", 2012, with Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé and Martin Uribe, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
"Sales and Price Spikes in Retail Scanner Data", 2011, Economics Letters
Working Papers
Working Paper 935. Ryan Chahrour and Kyle Jurado, Duke University, "Recoverability", (11/2017; PDF)
Working Paper 934. Ryan Chahrour and Rosen Valchev, Boston College, "International Medium of Exchange: Privilege and Duty", (10/6/17; PDF)
Working Paper 925. Ryan Chahrour, and Robert Ulbricht, Toulouse School of Economics, "Information-driven Business Cycles: A Primal Approach", (03/2017; PDF)
Working Paper 917. Ryan Chahrour, and Kyle Jurado, Duke University, "News or Noise? The Missing Link" (11/2017; PDF)
Working Paper 888. Ryan Chahrour, and Luminita Stevens, University of Maryland, "Equilibrium Price Dispersion and the Border Effect" (12/2015; PDF)
Working Paper 873. Ryan Chahrour and Gaetano Gaballo (Banque de France, Monetary Policy Division), "On the Nature and Stability of Sentiments" (02/2015; PDF)
Working Paper 867. Ryan Chahrour, Sanjay Chugh, Ohio State University, and Tristan Potter, Drexel University, "Searching for Wages in an Estimated Labor Matching Model" (rev. 12/2016: PDF)
Working Paper 866. Ozge Akinci (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) and Ryan Chahrour, "Good News is Bad News: Leverage Cycles and Sudden Stops" (12/2014: PDF)
Working Paper 854. Ryan Chahrour and Justlin Svec,College of the Holy Cross, "Optimal Capital Taxation and Consumer Uncertainty" (04/2014: PDF; forthcoming, Journal of Macroeconomics)