Assistant Professor
Office: Kirby 252B
Phone: 336-758-4527
Email: lakdawa@wfu.edu
Research Interests: Empirical Macroeconomics, Monetary Policy, Macro-Finance.
Aeimit K. Lakdawala –
Education
Ph.D. 2012, University of California, San Diego
B.A. 2004, University of Texas, Austin, Texas
B.S. 2004, University of Texas, Austin, Texas
Academic Appointments
Assistant Professor, Michigan State University, Department of Economics, August 2012 – 2020
Ph. D. Intern, Bank of England, London, UK, Summer 2010
Economics Research Associate, Federal Reserve Bank f St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, 2005 – 2006
Research Intern, Reserve Bank of India, Mumbai, India, Summer 2003
Publications:
Decomposing the Effects of Monetary Policy using an External Instruments SVAR, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 34: pp 934– 950, September/October 2019
Federal Reserve Private Information and the Stock Market with Matthew Schaffer, Journal of Banking and Finance, Vol 106, pp 34-49, September 2019
Interbank Markets and Bank Bailout Policies Amid a Sovereign Debt Crisis with Maria Olivero and Raoul Minetti, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 93, pp 131-153, August 2018
Federal Reserve Credibility and the Term Structure of Interest Rates with Shu Wu, European Economic Review, Volume 100, pp 364-389, November 2017
Changes in Federal Reserve Preferences, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 70, September 2016
How Credible is the Federal Reserve? A Structural Estimation of Policy Re-optimizations with Davide Debortoli, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 8(3), July 2016
What are the Odds? Options-Based Forecasts of FOMC Target Changes, with Christopher Neely and William Emmons, St. Louis Fed Review, November/December 2006, 88(6), pp. 543-61
ECN 322 Monetary Theory and Policy