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Robert J. Tetlow
Senior Economist
Division of Research and Statistics
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Washington, D.C., U.S.A. 20551


Telephone: (202) 452-2437
Fax: (202) 728-5856
E-mail: rtetlow <no spam> at frb.gov

Welcome to my personal web page--as opposed to my Board-sanctioned page. The latter does not allow works in progress or, for that matter, anything else that has not been approved by the official channels. You will also find some personal items and some of my favorite links. Thanks for visiting. Come back again soon!

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Research Interests:

Monetary theory and policy, especially model uncertainty and it's implications for the design of monetary policy; robust control; learning, computational economics; macroeconomic modeling.

 

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What's New

October 2009

My discussion of the chapter for the new Handbook of Monetary Economics by Lars Hansen and Tom Sargent entitled "Wanting Robustness to Misspecification" is available over here.

October 2009

My discussion of an agent-based computational economics (ACE) paper presented by Peter Howitt at a conference at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland can be found here.

July 2009

My Comment on a very capable paper (even though I have reservations with it) by Bob Arnold of the CBO is published in the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review. The subject--the best way to measure and project potential output--is regarded by many economists as a dry one. Too bad it is so important. I encourage everyone to peruse the entire issue which is available here.

July 2009

My paper "Real-time model uncertainty in the United States: 'Robust' policies put to the test" has been revised and is now available.

December 2008

My paper "Inflation Targeting and Target Instability" has now been published in the December 2008 issue of the IJCB.

December 2008

My paper (with Peter von zur Muehlen), "Robustifying Learnability" has been published in JEDC 33(2) February 2009.

September 2007

My paper with Thomas Laubach and John C. Williams, "Learning and the Role of Macroeconomic Factors in the Term Structure of Interest Rates" is now available.