Jake D. Orchard

Senior Economist Prices and Wages Section Research and Statistics

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Current Research Topics

Senior Economist
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
2025 - present
Economist
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
2022 - 2025

Using Macro Counterfactuals to Assess Plausibility: An Illustration using the 2001 Rebate MPCs
Jacob D. Orchard, Valerie A. Ramey, and Johannes F. Wieland
Economic Journal (Forthcoming)
https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueaf039
Non-homothetic Demand Shifts and Inflation Inequality
Jacob Orchard
Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2025)
https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2025.085
Micro MPCs and Macro Counterfactuals: The Case of the 2008 Rebates
Jacob D. Orchard, Valerie A. Ramey, and Johannes F. Wieland
Quarterly Journal of Economics (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjaf015
Do People Care More About Inflation or Wage Growth?
Nicolas Lewin, Jacob Orchard, and Kabir Dasgupta
FEDS Notes (2025)
https://doi.org/10.17016/2380-7172.3701
Cyclical Demand Shifts and Cost of Living Inequality
Jacob Orchard
Job Market Paper (2022)
County-level racial prejudice and the black-white gap in infant health outcomes
Jacob Orchard and Joseph Price
Social Science & Medicine (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.03.036

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