Professional Experience

• • Senior Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

  • 2012 - present

• • Visiting Scholar

    Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University

  • 2010

• • Professorial Lecturer

    Johns Hopkins University - School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)

  • 2006 - 2008

• • Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

  • 2005 - 2012

Publications

• Bombardini, Matilde, Christopher J. Kurz, and Peter M. Morrow (2012). "Ricardian Trade and the Impact of Domestic Competition on Export Performance," Canadian Journal of Economics, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 585-612.
• Houseman, Susan, Christopher Kurz, Paul Lengermann, and Benjamin Mandel (2011). "Offshoring Bias in U.S. Manufacturing," Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 111-132.
• Houseman, Susan, Christopher Kurz, Paul Lengermann, and Benjamin Mandel (2010). "Offshoring Bias in U.S. Manufacturing: Implications for Productivity and Value Added," International Finance Discussion Papers 1007. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
• Chabot, Benjamin R., and Christopher J. Kurz (2010). "That's Where the Money was: Foreign Bias and English Investment Abroad, 1866-1907," Economic Journal, vol. 120, no. 547, pp. 1056-1080.
• Burstein, Ariel, Christopher Kurz, and Linda Tesar (2008). "Trade, Production Sharing, and the International Transmission of Business Cycles," Journal of Monetary Economics, vol. 55, no. 4, pp. 775-795.
• Kurz, Christopher Johann (2006). "Outstanding Outsourcers: A Firm- and Plant-Level Analysis of Production Sharing," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2006-04. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
• Kurz, Christopher, and A. Norman et al (2004). "On the Computational Complexity of Consumer Decision Rules," Computational Economic, 23, pp. 173-192.
• Kurz, Christopher, and A. Norman et al. (2003). "An Ordering Experiment," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 249-262.

Presentations

• conference

  January 2013

  ASSA Meetings, San Diego

  Trading Plants and Volatility

• seminar

  June 2012

  United States International Trade Commission

• seminar

  May 2012

  Office of Tax Analysis, Department of the Treasury

• conference

  March 2012

  Washington Area International Trade Symposium

• conference

  November 2011

  Southeast Economics Meetings

• seminar

  November 2011

  Center for Economic Studies, Census Bureau

• conference

  November 2010

  CES Research Data Center Conference

• conference

  July 2012

  World Congress of Economic History, Stellenbosch

  British Investment Trusts: The Precursors of Modern Structured Finance

• conference

  August 2011

  Microeconomic Aspects of the Globalization of Inflation

  Offshoring Bias and U.S. Manufacturing: Implications for Productivity and Value Added

• seminar

  December 2010

  George Washington University

• conference

  July 2010

  NBER Summer Institute CRIW

• conference

  November 2009

  Conference on Measurement Issues Arising from Globalization

  Simulating the Effects of Import Price Mismeasurement on Output and Productivity Measures

• seminar

  June 2011

  Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

  Using Census Microdata to Forecast U.S. Aggregate Productivity

• conference

  October 2010

  Comparative Analysis of Enterprise Data

  Firm Heterogeneity and Ricardian Trade: The Impact of Domestic Competition on Export Performance

Other Activities