Alisdair McKay
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
Boston University
amckay@bu.edu
Spring 2014: I am on leave visiting Columbia University. Please email me if you need to contact me.
Curriculum Vitae
Working Papers:
- Idiosyncratic risk,
insurance, and aggregate consumption dynamics: a
likelihood perspective.
First draft: July, 2013.
- The Role of Automatic Stabilizers
in the U.S. Business Cycle.
with Ricardo Reis
Revision requested by Econometrica.
First draft: August, 2012. Latest draft: April, 2013.
[Additional Appendices]
- Rational Inattention to
Discrete Choices: A New Foundation for the Multinomial Logit Model
with Filip Matejka
Revision requested by American Economic Review.
First draft: February, 2011. Latest draft: January, 2014.
- Accounting for Idiosyncratic Wage Risk Over the Business Cycle.
with Tamas Papp
Latest draft: March, 2012.
Published Papers:
- Search for Financial Returns and Social Security Privatization.
Review of Economic Dynamics, Volume 16, Issue 2, April 2013.
[ Published Version] [ Appendix ] [ Programs and Data ]
- Simple Market Equilibria with Rationally Inattentive Consumers
with Filip Matejka
American Economic Review (Papers and Proceedings), Volume 102, Number 3, May 2012.
[ Published Version]
- News Shocks and Business Cycles.
with Per Krusell
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Economic Quarterly, Volume 96, Number 4, Fourth Quarter 2010.
- 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 ]