Professional Experience

• • Senior Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

  • 2009 - present

• • Deputy Assistant Secretary for Macroeconomic Policy

    Department of Treasury

  • 2012 - 2013

• • Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

  • 2003 - 2009

• • Adjunct Professor

    Johns Hopkins University, Washington D.C. Center

  • 2008 - present

• • Adjunct Professor

    Georgetown University

  • 2007 - 2009

• • Summer Intern

    The World Bank

  • 2001

• • Research Assistant

    Boston Health Economics, Inc.

  • 1996 - 1997

• • Research Assistant

    Policy Analysis, Inc.

  • 1994 - 1996

Publications

• Arseneau, David M., and Sanjay K. Chugh (2012). "Tax Smoothing in Frictional Labor Markets," Journal of Political Economy, vol. 120, no. 5, pp. 926-985.
• Arseneau, David M., and Sanjay K. Chugh (Forthcoming). "Tax Smoothing in Frictional Labor Markets," Journal of Political Economy.
• Arseneau, David M. (Forthcoming). "Explaining the Energy Consumption Portfolio in a Cross-Section of Countries: Are the BRICs Different?" Law and Business Review of the Americas.
• Arseneau, David M. (2012). "Review of International Trade with Equilibrium Unemployment," Review of International Economics, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 654-656.
• Arseneau, David M. (2012). "Expectation Traps in a New Keynesian Open Economy Model," Economic Theory, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 81-112.
• Arseneau, David M., and Sanjay K. Chugh (2008). "Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy with Costly Wage Bargaining," Journal of Monetary Economics, vol. 55, no. 8, pp. 1401-1414.
• Arseneau, David M. (2007). "The Inflation Tax in an Open Economy with Imperfect Competition," Review of Economic Dynamics, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 126-147.
• Arseneau, David M., and Sylvain Leduc (2012). "Commodity Price Movements in a General Equilibrium Model of Storage," International Finance Discussion Papers 1054. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
• Arseneau, David M., and Sanjay K. Chugh (2008). "Competitive Search Equilibrium in a DSGE Model," International Finance Discussion Papers 929. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
• Arseneau, David M., and Sanjay K. Chugh (2008). "Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy in Customer Markets," International Finance Discussion Papers 919. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
• Arseneau, David M., and Sanjay K. Chugh (2007). "Bargaining, Fairness, and Price Rigidity in a DSGE Environment," International Finance Discussion Papers 900. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
• Arseneau, David M., and Sanjay K. Chugh (2007). "Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy with Costly Wage Bargaining," International Finance Discussion Papers 893. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
• Arseneau, David M., and Sanjay K. Chugh (2006). "Ramsey Meets Hosios: The Optimal Capital Tax and Labor Market Efficiency," International Finance Discussion Papers 870. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).

Presentations

• seminar

  2013

  University of Colorado

  Globalization, Labor Market Mismatch, and Wage Inequality

• conference

  2012

  European Central Bank

  Commodity Price Movements in a General Equilibrium Storage Model

• seminar

  2012

  Boston College

  Threatening to Offshore in a Search Model of the Labor Market

• conference

  2012

  Bank of Finland

  Threatening to Offshore in a Search Model of the Labor Market

• conference

  2012

  Society of Economic Dynamics (Cyprus)

  Threatening to Offshore in a Search Model of the Labor Market

• seminar

  2012

  Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

  Commodity Price Movements in a General Equilibrium Storage Model

• conference

  2012

  Economic Leadership from the Emerging World? (Cox School of Business, Southern Methodist University)

  The Role of China and India in Global Energy Markets

• seminar

  2012

  Bank of Canada

  Threatening to Offshore in a Search Model of the Labor Market

• conference

  2012

  Policy Responses to Commodity Price Movements (CBRT-IMFER)

  Is Monetary Policy a Key Driver of Commodity Prices? A View From a Competitive Storage Model

• seminar

  2012

  Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

  Threatening to Offshore in a Search Model of the Labor Market

• conference

  2011

  Globalization: Strategies and Effects (Aarhus University)

  Threatening to Offshore in a Search Model of the Labor Market

• conference

  2011

  West Coast Search Conference (University of California - Santa Cruz)

  Threatening to Offshore in a Search Model of the Labor Market

• conference

  2011

  Commodities, The Economy, and Money (Haskeyne School of Business, University of Calgary)

  Commodity Futures Might Not be as Bad a Forecasting Tool as You Think

• conference

  2011

  Commodities, The Economy, and Money (Haskeyne School of Business, University of Calgary)

  Commodity Price Dynamics Through the Lens of the Rational Expectations Storage Model

• conference

  2011

  Round Table on Oil Price Developments (U.S. Treasury Department)

  The Role of China and India in Global Energy Markets

• seminar

  2011

  Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

  Threatening to Offshore in a Search Model of the Labor Market

• conference

  2011

  IAEE Annual Meetings (Stockholm, Sweden)

  Explaining the Energy Consumption Profile in a Cross-Section of Countries

• discussion

  2011

  SCIEA System Meetings (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta)

  Discussion of "Self-Employment in the Global Economy" by Federico Diez and Ali Ozdagli

• conference

  2011

  Midwest Macro Meetings (Vanderbilt University)

  Threatening to Offshore in a Search Model of the Labor Market

• conference

  2011

  Econometrics Society Summer Meetings (Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri)

  Threatening to Offshore in a Search Model of the Labor Market

• discussion

  2011

  T2M Conference (HEC Montreal)

  Discussion of "Endogenous Business Cycles in OLG Economies with Multiple Consumption Goods" by Carine Nourry and Alain Venditti

• conference

  2011

  T2M Conference (HEC Montreal)

  Threatening to Offshore in a Search Model of the Labor Market

• discussion

  2010

  Macro System Meetings, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

  Discussion of "Search Frictions and the Labor Wedge" by Murat Tasci and Andrea Pescatori

• seminar

  2010

  Study Center Gerzensee

  Threatening to Offshore in a Search Model of the Labor Market

• seminar

  2010

  European Central Bank (ECB)

  Threatening to Offshore in a Search Model of the Labor Market

• seminar

  2010

  Deutsche Bundesbank

  Threatening to Offshore in a Search Model of the Labor Market

• conference

  2010

  Energy Information Administration Annual Meeting

  Short-term Movements in Oil Prices

• discussion

  2009

  Roundtable sponsored by Johns Hopkins University (Washington D.C. Center)

  Perspectives on the Financial Crisis

• conference

  2009

  Roundtable sponsored by Bank of Canada at CEA Annual Meetings

  The Oil Price Spike of 2008

• conference

  2009

  Econometrics Society Summer Meetings (Boston University)

  Tax Smoothing in Frictional Labor Markets

• conference

  2009

  Midwest Macro Meetings (Indiana University)

  Tax Smoothing in Frictional Labor Markets

• conference

  2009

  Society for Economic Dynamics, Istanbul, Turkey

  Tax Smoothing in Frictional Labor Markets

• conference

  2008

  International Monetary Policy Research Conference (ECB)

  Tax Smoothing in Frictional Labor Markets

• conference

  2008

  Workshop on Labor Markets (Hungarian National Bank, Budapest, Hungary)

  Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy in Customer Markets

• conference

  2008

  ASSA Winter Meetings, New Orleans, Louisiana

  Bargaining, Fairness, and Price Rigidity in a DSGE Environment

• conference

  2007

  Money, Banking, Payments, and Finance Workshop, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

  Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy in Customer Markets

• conference

  2007

  Money, Credit, and Policy Conference, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis/ Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri

  Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy in Customer Markets

• conference

  2007

  Econometric Society Summer Meetings (Duke University)

  Bargaining, Fairness, and Price Rigidity in a DSGE Environment

• conference

  2006

  Econometric Society Summer Meetings (University of Minnesota)

  Ramsey Meets Hosios: The Optimal Capital Tax and Labor Market Efficiency

• seminar

  2005

  University of Georgia

  Fiscal Shocks, Job Creation, and Countercyclical Labor Markups

• seminar

  2005

  Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

  Fiscal Shocks, Job Creation, and Countercyclical Labor Markups

• conference

  2004

  Econometric Society Summer Meetings (Brown University)

  Expectation Traps in a New Keynesian Open Economy

• conference

  2004

  Midwest Macro Meetings (Iowa State University)

  The Inflation Tax in an Open Economy with Imperfect Competition

• conference

  2004

  Southern Economic Association Meetings, New Orleans, Louisiana

  The Inflation Tax in an Open Economy with Imperfect Competition

• seminar

  2003

  Binghamton University

  The Inflation Tax in an Open Economy with Imperfect Competition

• seminar

  2003

  Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

  The Inflation Tax in an Open Economy with Imperfect Competition

• seminar

  2003

  Texas A&M University

  The Inflation Tax in an Open Economy with Imperfect Competition

• seminar

  2003

  Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

  The Inflation Tax in an Open Economy with Imperfect Competition

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