Alisdair McKay

Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
Boston University
amckay@bu.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Working Papers:

• Simple Market Equilibria with Rationally Inattentive Consumers
  with Filip Matejka
  Latest draft: January 16, 2012.
  
  
• Household Saving Behavior and Social Security Privatization.
  Latest draft: December 17, 2011.
  
  
• Rational Inattention to Discrete Choices: A New Foundation for the Multinomial Logit Model
  with Filip Matejka
  Latest draft: November 22, 2011.
  
  
• Accounting for the Cyclical Volatility of Wages.
  with Tamas Papp
  Latest draft: October 5, 2010.
  
  

Published Papers:

• The Brevity and Violence of Contractions and Expansions.
  with Ricardo Reis
  Journal of Monetary Economics, Volume 55, Issue 4, May 2008.
  [ Published Version ] [ Appendix ] [ Programs and Data ]
  
  
• News Shocks and Business Cycles.
  with Per Krusell
  Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Economic Quarterly, Volume 96, Number 4, Fourth Quarter 2010.