Contact Information
202-452-3086
christopher.j.kurz@frb.gov

Fields of Interest
International Trade
International Finance
Industrial Organization

Education
Ph.D., Economics, University of Michigan, 2005
M.A., Economics, University of Michigan, 2000
B.A., Economics, The University of Texas, 1998

Professional Experience
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 2005-present
Professorial Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University-SAIS, 2006-2008

Selected Publications

• ''Trade, Production Sharing, and the International Transmission of Business Cycles'' (with Ariel Burstein and Linda Tesar), Journal of Monetary Economics, vol. 55 (May 2008), pp. 775-795.
• Outstanding Outsourcers: A Firm- and Plant-Level Analysis of Production Sharing, Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2006-04. Washington: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 2006.
• ''On the Computational Complexity of Consumer Decision Rules'' (with Alfred Norman and et al), Computational Economics, vol. 23 (March 2004), pp. 173-192.
• ''An Ordering Experiment'' (with Alfred Norman and et al), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 50 (February 2003), pp. 249-262.