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Olesya V. Grishchenko

Education

  • Ph.D., Finance, Stern School of Business, New York University, 2005
  • M.Sc., Mathematics, Moscow State University, 1995
  • B.A., French Language and Civilization, Moscow State University, 1994
Current Research Topics
  • Interest Rates, Volatility, Surveys, Macro-finance
  • Inflation Expectations, Textual Analysis, Fixed Income, Term Structure of Interest Rates
  • Principal Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

    2019 - present
  • Visting Economist

    Banque de France

    2024 - 2025
  • Senior Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

    2015 - 2018
  • Visiting Professor of Finance

    University of Zurich

    2016 - 2017
  • Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

    2011 - 2014
  • Visiting Scholar

    Banque De France

    2014
  • Adjunct Professor of Finance

    University of Maryland at College Park

    2013 - 2014
  • Assistant Professor of Finance

    Pennsylvania State University

    2005 - 2011
  • Visiting Professor of Finance

    New Economic School, Moscow, Russia

    2006 - 2010
  • Gauging the Sentiment of Federal Open Market Committee Communications through the Eyes of the Financial Press
    Shantanu Banerjee, Paul Cordova, Michiel De Pooter, and Olesya V. Grishchenko
    Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2025)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2025.048
  • How Stable are Inflation Expectations in the Euro Area? Evidence from the Euro-Area Financial Markets
    Olesya V. Grishchenko, Franck Moraux, and Olga Pakulyak
    Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2025)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2025.041
  • Tale About Inflation Tails
    Olesya V. Grishchenko and Laura Wilcox
    Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2024)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2024.028
  • What Is Certain about Uncertainty?
    Danilo Cascaldi-Garcia, Cisil Sarisoy, Juan M. Londono, Bo Sun, Deepa Datta, Thiago Ferreira, Olesya Grishchenko, Mohammad R. Jahan-Parvar, Francesca Loria, Sai Ma, Marius Rodriguez, Ilknur Zer, and John Rogers
    Journal of Economic Literature (2023)
    https://doi.org/10.1257/jel.20211645
    See also » FRB Working Paper (2020)
  • Term structure of interest rates with short-run and long-run risks
    Olesya V. Grishchenko, Zhaogang Song, and Hao Zhou
    Journal of Finance and Data Science (2022)
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfds.2022.09.001
    See also » FRB Working Paper (2015)
  • Fuel Up With OATmeals! The Case of the French Nominal Yield Curve
    Olesya V. Grishchenko, Franck Moraux, and Olga Pakulyak
    Journal of Finance and Data Science (2020)
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfds.2020.07.001
  • A Volatility-of-Volatility Expansion of the Option Prices in the SABR Stochastic Volatility Model
    Olesya V. Grishchenko, Xiao Han, and Victor Nistor
    International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance (2020)
    https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219024920500181
  • Measuring Inflation Anchoring and Uncertainty: A US and Euro Area Comparison
    Olesya Grishchenko, Sarah Mouabbi, and Jean-Paul Renne
    Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (2019)
    https://doi.org/10.1111/jmcb.12622
    See also » FRB Working Paper (2017)
  • Habit Formation Heterogeneity: Implications for Aggregate Asset Pricing
    Eduard Dubin, Olesya V. Grishchenko, and Vasily Kartashov
    Revue Finance (2017)
    https://doi.org/10.3917/fina.381.0045
    See also » FRB Working Paper (2012)
  • The Joint Dynamics of U.S. and Euro-area Inflation Rates: Expectations and Time-varying Uncertainty
    Olesya Grishchenko, Sarah Mouabbi, and Jean-Paul Renne
    Banque de France Working Paper Series (2017)
    https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2952315
  • Has the Inflation Risk Premium Fallen? Is it Now Negative?
    Andrew Y. Chen, Eric C. Engstrom, and Olesya V. Grishchenko
    FEDS Notes (2016)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/2380-7172.1720
  • The Informational Content of the Embedded Deflation Option in TIPS
    Olesya V. Grishchenko, Joel M. Vanden, and Jianing Zhang
    Journal of Banking & Finance (2016)
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbankfin.2015.12.004
    See also » FRB Working Paper (2012)
  • Term Structure of Interest Rates with Short-run and Long-run Risks
    Olesya Grishchenko, Zhaogang Song, and Hao Zhou
    Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2015)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2015.095
  • An Empirical Investigation of Consumption-Based Asset Pricing Models with Stochastic Habit Formation
    Qiang Dai and Olesya V. Grishchenko
    Quarterly Journal of Finance (2014)
    https://doi.org/10.1142/S2010139214500050
    See also » FRB Working Paper (2012)
  • Inflation Risk Premium: Evidence from the TIPS Market
    Olesya V. Grishchenko and Jing-zhi Huang
    Journal of Fixed Income (2013)
    https://doi.org/10.3905/jfi.2013.22.4.005#sthash.wCuZu6P0.dpuf
    See also » FRB Working Paper (2012)
  • The Role of Heterogeneity in Asset Pricing: The Effect of a Clustering Approach
    Olesya V. Grishchenko and Marco Rossi
    Journal of Business & Economic Statistics (2012)
    https://doi.org/10.1080/07350015.2012.670544
  • Market Inflation Expectations and the Term Structure of Interest Rates
    Olesya V. Grishchenko and Jing zhi Huang
    Inflation Sensitive Assets: Instruments and Strategies (2012)
  • Asset Pricing in the Production Economy Subject to Monetary Shocks
    Olesya V. Grishchenko
    Journal of Economics & Business (2011)
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconbus.2011.01.003
  • Internal vs. External Habit Formation: The Relative Importance for Asset Pricing
    Olesya V. Grishchenko
    Journal of Economics & Business (2010)
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconbus.2009.12.002
  • conference

    June 12, 2025

    5th European University Institute Alumni Conference in Economics, Florence, Italy

    History Matters! Lessons from the Euro-area Consumer-based Inflation Expectations

  • conference

    July 4, 2025

    41st International Symposium on Money, Banking and Finance, Nice, France

    History Matters! Lessons from the Euro-area Consumer-based Inflation Expectations

  • conference

    December 6, 2024

    3rd Sustainable Finance Forum, Paris France

    International Green Bond Premium

  • conference

    November 13, 2024

    ECONDAT 2024 Fall Meeting: Nontraditional Data, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing in Macroeconomics, Rome, Italy

    Gauging the Sentiment of FOMC Communications through the Eyes of the Financial Press

  • discussion

    October 4, 2024

    2024 SNB Research Conference

    Dealer Balance Sheets and Bidding Behavior in the Bank of England's QE Reverse Auctions

  • seminar

    September 24, 2024

    Banque de France, Paris, France

    How Stable are Inflation Expectations in the Euro Area? Evidence from the Euro area Financial Markets

  • conference

    July 5, 2023

    Computing in Economics and Finance Annual Meeting, Nice, France

    Gauging the Sentiment of FOMC Communications through the Eyes of the Financial Press

  • conference

    July 4, 2023

    Computing in Economics and Finance Annual Meeting, Nice, France

    Inflation, Real Interest Rates, and the Bond Market: A Study of French Index-Linked Government Bonds

  • conference

    July 4, 2023

    Computing in Economics and Finance Annual Meeting, Nice, France

    Tale about Inflation Tails

  • discussion

    June 7, 2023

    39th French Finance Association Annual Meeting, Bordeaux, France

    Firm Foreign Activity and the Geography of Exchange Rate Risk

  • conference

    June 7, 2023

    39th French Finance Association Annual Meeting, Bordeaux, France

    Inflation, Real Interest Rates, and the Bond Market: A Study of French Index-Linked Government Bonds

  • conference

    May 11, 2023

    ECONDAT 2023 Spring Meeting: Economics with Nontraditional Data and Analytical Tools, London, UK

    Gauging the Sentiment of FOMC Communications through the Eyes of the Financial Press

  • discussion

    October 4, 2022

    4th Conference on Non-traditional Data, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing in Macroeconomics, Stockholm, Sweden

    Climate Risk and Commodity Currencies

  • discussion

    May 23, 2022

    38th French Finance Association Annual Meeting, St-Malo, France

    Lost in a Negative Territory? Search for Yield!

  • conference

    May 23, 2022

    38th French Finance Association Annual Meeting, St-Malo, France

    Gauging the Sentiment of FOMC Communications through the Eyes of the Financial Press

  • seminar

    December 5, 2019

    University of Rennes, Rennes, France

    The Term Structure of French Nominal Debt

  • conference

    June 17-19, 2019

    36th International Conference of the French Finance Association, Quebec City, Canada

    The Term Structure of the French Nominal Debt

  • conference

    May 29, 2019

    2019 GCER Bienniel Alumni Conference, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., USA

    Gauging the Sentiment of FOMC Communications through the Eyes of the Financial Press

  • discussion

    April 5, 2019

    22nd Annual Conference of the Swiss Society for Financial Market Research, Zurich, Switzerland

    What Drives Risk Perception?

  • conference

    April 5, 2019

    22nd Annual Conference of the Swiss Society for Financial Market Research, Zurich, Switzerland

    Gauging the Sentiment of FOMC Communications through the Eyes of the Financial Press

  • seminar

    January 18, 2019

    Brock University, St-Catherine, Canada

    Gauging the Sentiment of FOMC Communications through the Eyes of the Financial Press

  • conference

    December 18, 2018

    2018 Paris Financial Management Conference, Paris, France

    The Term Structure of the French Nominal Debt

  • seminar

    November 30, 2018

    University of Queensland, Australia

    Gauging the Sentiment of FOMC Communications through the Eyes of the Financial Press

  • conference

    November 26-28, 2018

    Research School of Finance, Actuarial Studies and Statistics 2018 Summer Camp, Australia

    Gauging the Sentiment of FOMC Communications through the Eyes of the Financial Press

  • seminar

    November 23, 2018

    University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

    Gauging the Sentiment of FOMC Communications through the Eyes of the Financial Press

  • conference

    September 14, 2018

    Central Bank Communications Workshop at the Bank of Canada, Ottawa, Canada

    Gauging the Sentiment of FOMC Communications through the Eyes of the Financial Press

  • discussion

    August 20, 2018

    2018 Annual Meeting of the Central Bank Research Association, Frankfurt, Germany

    Global Inflation Dynamics and Inflation Expectations

  • conference

    August 20, 2018

    2018 Annual Meeting of the Central Bank Research Association, Frankfurt, Germany

    Measuring Inflation Anchoring and Uncertainty: A US and Euro-Area Comparison

  • seminar

    June 14, 2018

    University of Rennes, Rennes, France

    Gauging the Sentiment of FOMC Communications through the Eyes of the Financial Press

  • discussion

    June 6, 2018

    Inflation: New Insights for Central Banks, St Petersburg, Russia

    Computing Long-term Market Inflation Expectations for Countries without Inflation Expectations Markets

  • discussion

    May 25, 2018

    7th ITAM Finance Conference 2018, Mexico City, Mexico

    Government Policy Uncertainty and the Yield Curve

  • conference

    April 19, 2018

    FRB San Francisco System Committee on Macroeconomics, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Measuring Inflation Anchoring and Uncertainty: A US and Euro-Area Comparison

  • conference

    April 6, 2018

    21st Annual Conference of the Swiss Society for Financial Market Research, Zurich, Switzerland

    Term Structure of Interest Rates with Short-run and Long-run Risks

  • discussion

    April 6, 2018

    21st Annual Conference of the Swiss Society for Financial Market Research, Zurich. Switzerland

    Extreme Inflation and Time-Varying Disaster Risk

  • conference

    April 6, 2018

    21st Annual Conference of the Swiss Society for Financial Market Research, Zurich, Switzerland

    Measuring Inflation Anchoring and Uncertainty: A US and Euro-Area Comparison

  • discussion

    April 6, 2018

    21st Annual Conference of the Swiss Society for Financial Market Research, Zurich, Switzerland

    The TIPS Liquidity Premium

  • discussion

    December 21, 2017

    15th EUROFIDAI and ESSEC Paris December Finance Meeting

    Option Implied Dividends

  • conference

    December 21, 2017

    15th EUROFIDAI and ESSEC Paris December Finance Meeting

    Term Structure of Interest Rates with Short-run and Long-run Risks

  • conference

    December 18, 2017

    New Economic School 25th Anniversary Conference in Economics and Finance

    Measuring Inflation Anchoring and Uncertainty: A US and Euro-Area Comparison

  • discussion

    September 22, 2017

    Swiss National Bank Research Conference, Zurich, Switzerland

    The Term Structure of Expectations and Bond Yields

  • seminar

    July 7, 2017

    Central Bank of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania

    Measuring Inflation Anchoring and Uncertainty: A US and Euro-Area Comparison

  • conference

    June 6, 2017

    Financial Intermediation Research Society conference*, Hong Kong, HK

    Term Structure of Interest Rates with Short-run and Long-run Risks

  • seminar

    April 19, 2017

    New Economic School, Moscow, Russia

    The Joint Dynamics of the U.S. and Euro Area Inflation: Expectations and Time-varying Uncertainty

  • seminar

    April 6, 2017

    University of Rennes, Rennes, France

    The Joint Dynamics of the U.S. and Euro Area Inflation: Expectations and Time-varying Uncertainty

  • seminar

    March 31, 2017

    Swiss National Bank, Zurich, France

    The Joint Dynamics of the U.S. and Euro Area Inflation: Expectations and Time-varying Uncertainty

  • seminar

    March 24, 2017

    University of Zurich, Zurich, France

    Term Structure of Interest Rates with Short-run and Long-run Risks

  • seminar

    January 31, 2017

    University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany

    Term Structure of Itnerest Rates with Short-run and Long-run Risks

  • conference

    January 6-8, 2017

    American Finance Association Meetings, Chicago, IL, USA

    Term Structure of Interest Rates with Short-run and Long-run Risks

  • conference

    December 20, 2017

    14th EUROFIDAI and ESSEC Paris December Finance Meeting*, Paris, France

    The Joint Dynamics of the U.S. and Euro-Area Inflation: Expectations and Time-Varying Uncertainty

  • seminar

    November 17, 2016

    European Central Bank, Frankfurt, Germany

    The Joint Dynamics of the U.S. and Euro Area Inflation Expectations with Time-Varying Uncertainty

  • conference

    September 26-27, 2016

    3d SAFE Asset Pricing Workshop at the Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

    Term Structure of Interest Rates with Short-run and Long-run Risks

  • conference

    June 28, 2016

    22nd International CEF Conference, Bordeaux, France

    The Joint Dynamics of the U.S. and Euro Area Inflation: Expectations and Time-varying Uncertainty

  • conference

    June 25, 2016

    Annual Conference of the International Association for Applied Econometrics*, Milan, Italy

    The Joint Dynamics of the U.S. and Euro Area Inflation: Expectations and Time-varying Uncertainty

  • conference

    June 24, 2016

    System Committee on International Economic Analysis, Washington, DC

    The Joint Dynamics of the U.S. and Euro Area Inflation: Expectations and Time-varying Uncertainty

  • conference

    June 16, 2016

    Society of Financial Econometrics*, Hong Kong

    The Joint Dynamics of the U.S. and Euro Area Inflation: Expectations and Time-varying Uncertainty

  • conference

    June 15, 2016

    Society of Financial Econometrics (Keynote Speech)*, Hong Kong

    Term Structure of Interest Rates with Short-run and Long-run Risks

  • conference

    June 4, 2016

    9th ECB Workshop on Forecasting Techniques: Forecast Uncertainty and Macroeconomic Indicators, Frankfurt, Germany

    The Joint Dynamics of the U.S. and Euro Area Inflation: Expectations and Time-varying Uncertainty

  • seminar

    May 20, 2016

    XVIII Annual Inflation Targeting Seminar of the Banco Central do Brasil*, * indicates presentation by co-author

    The Joint Dynamics of the U.S. and Euro Area Inflation: Expectations and Time-varying Uncertainty

  • conference

    2015-2016

    32nd International French Finance Association Conference, Finance Down Under, SFS Cavalcade

    Term Structure of Interest Rates with Short-run and Long-run Risks

  • discussion

    November 20, 2015

    Federal Reserve System Macro Workshop, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Robust Bond Risk Premia

  • conference

    2014

    5th Risk Management Conference, Midwest Finance Meetings, Missouri Economics Conference, 3d Fixed Income Conference, CEPR Asset Pricing Workshop

    Term Structure of Interest Rates with Short-run and Long-run Risks

  • seminar

    2013 - 2014

    Banque de France, New Economic School, Luxembourg School of Finance, European Investment Bank, Penn State University

    Term Structure of Interest Rates with Short-run and Long-run Risks

  • discussion

    2013-2014

    FMA, Midwest Finance Meetings

    Corporate Bond Credit Spreads and FOMC Announcements

  • discussion

    August 29, 2013

    40th European Finance Association Meetings

    Capital Controls and International Financial Stability

  • discussion

    March 16, 2013

    Midwest Finance Meetings, Chicago, IL, USA

    Pricing TIPS and Treasuries with Linear Regressions

  • conference

    March 16, 2013

    Midwest Finance Meetings, Chicago, IL, USA

    Inflation Risk Premium: Evidence from the TIPS Market

  • conference

    2012 - 2013

    18th International CEF, Conference, Midwest Finance Meetings, 10th International French Finance Association Conference

    Habit Formation Heterogeneity: Implications for Aggregate Asset Pricing

  • conference

    2011 - 2013

    Northern Finance Meetings, 18th International CEF Conference, 2nd USC Moore School Fixed Income Conference, Midwest Finance Meetings

    The Informational Content of the Deflation Option Embedded in TIPS

  • conference

    December 14, 2012

    New Economic School 20th Anniversary Conference, Moscow, Russia

    Taylor rule at work: Evidence from disaggregated data

  • discussion

    April 21, 2012

    1st USC Moore School of Business Fixed Income Conference, Charleston, SC, USA

    The Effects of the Treasury Fails Charge on Market Functioning

  • discussion

    December 20, 2011

    9th French Finance Association Conference, Paris, France

    An Analysis of Ultra Long-Term Yields

  • seminar

    September 9, 2011

    Penn State University, State College, PA, USA

    Recent Advances in Computing General Equilibrium Models and Its Application to the Asset Pricing Models with Time Non-separable Preferences

Awards
  • 2023

    Journal of Finance and Data Science

    Best Fixed Income Paper Award for "Term Structure of Interest Rates with Short-run and Long-run Risks" paper

  • 2012

    Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG), Oxford, UK

    Best financial engineering project using NAG algorithms

  • 2009

    Eastern Finance Association

    Outstanding Institutions Paper Award

Conference Organization
  • August 21, 2024 | Bratislava, Slovakia

    European Finance Association Doctoral Tutorial

    Program Committee

  • November 13-14, 2023 | Washington, DC

    5th Conference on Non-traditional Data, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing in Macroeconomics

    Organizing Committee, Program Committee

  • August 2023 | Amsterdam, Netherlands

    European Finance Association Doctoral Tutorial

    Program Committee

  • July 3-6, 2023 | Nice, France

    Computing in Economics and Finance Annual Meeting

    Presenter

  • May 11-12, 2023 | London, UK

    ECONDAT 2023 Spring Meeting: Economics with Nontraditional Data and Analytical Tools

    Presenter

  • June 5-7, 2023 | Bordeaux, France

    39th International French Finance Association

    Program Committee, Session Chair

  • May 2019, October 2020, October 2021, May 2023 | Washington, DC

    Federal Reserve Board Internal Macro-Finance Workshop

    Organizing Committee, Program Committee

  • October 3-4, 2022 | Stockholm, Sweden

    4th Conference on Non-traditional Data, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing in Macroeconomics

    Program Committee

  • August 2022 | Barcelona, Spain

    European Finance Association Doctoral Tutorial

    Program Committee

  • May 23-25, 2022 | Saint-Malo, France

    38th International French Finance Association

    Program Committee, Session Chair

  • October 2021 | Denver, CO

    Financial Management Association Annual Meeting

    Program Committee, Session Chair

  • June 2020 | Beijing, China

    China Financial Research Conference

    Program Committee

  • October 5-6, 2019 | Washington, DC, USA

    Alternative Methodologies Session, Nontraditional Data, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing in Macroeconomics, Federal Reserve Board, October 2019

    Session Chair

  • April 2019 | Zurich, Switzerland

    Swiss Finance Association Annual meetings

    Reviewer

  • September 2019 | Vancouver, Canada

    Northern Finance Association

    Program Committee

  • August 2019 | Lisbon, Portugal

    European Finance Association Doctoral Tutorial

    Program Committee

  • September 2018 | Charlevoix, Quebec

    Northern Finance Association

    Program Committee

  • August 2018 | Warsaw, Poland

    European Finance Association Doctoral Tutorial

    Program Committee

  • July 2018 | Beijing, China

    China Financial Research Conference

    Program Committee

  • April 2018 | Zurich, Switzerland

    Conference of the Swiss Society for Financial Market Research

    Reviewer

  • July 2017 | Hangzhou, China

    Chinese International Finance Conference

    Program Committee

  • March 2017 | Chicago, IL

    Midwest Finance Association

    Program Committee

  • March 2016 | Atlanta, GA

    Midwesrt Finance Association

    Program Committee

  • March 2015 | Chicago, IL

    Midwest Finance Association

    Program Committee

  • March 2014 | Orlando, FL

    Midwest Finance Association

    Program Committee

  • October 2013 | Chicago, IL

    Financial Management Association

    Program Committee

  • March 2013 | Chicago, IL

    Midwest Finance Association

    Program Committee

  • October 2012 | Atlanta, GA

    Financial Management Association

    Program Committee

  • October 2011 | Denver, CO

    Financial Management Association

    Program Committee

  • September 2008 | Kananaskis, Canada

    Northern Finance Association

    Program Committee

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