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Cynthia L. Doniger

Education

  • Ph.D., Economics, University of Michigan, 2014
  • M.A., Economics, University of Michigan, 2010
  • B.A., Mathematics-Economics, Claremont McKenna College, 2008
Current Research Topics
  • Macro-Labor
  • Principal Economists

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

    2023 - present
  • Senior Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

    2017 - 2023
  • Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

    2014 - 2017
  • Wage dispersion with heterogeneous wage contracts
    Cynthia L. Doniger
    Review of Economic Dynamics (2023)
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.red.2022.12.003
    See also » FRB Working Paper (2015)
  • Long-lived employment effects of delays in emergency financing for small businesses
    Cynthia L. Doniger and Benjamin Kay
    Journal of Monetary Economics (2023)
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmoneco.2023.08.002
  • Measuring Job Loss during the Pandemic Recession in Real Time with Twitter Data
    Anbar Aizenman, Connor M. Brennan, Tomaz Cajner, Cynthia Doniger, and Jacob Williams
    Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2023)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2023.035
  • These Caps Spilleth Over: Equilibrium Effects of Unemployment Insurance
    Cynthia L. Doniger and Desmond Toohey
    Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2022)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2022.074
  • What Can We Learn from Asynchronous Wage Changes?
    Cynthia L. Doniger
    Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2022)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2021.055r1
  • Quantifying Bottlenecks in Manufacturing
    Charles Gilbert, Maria Tito, and Cynthia Doniger
    FEDS Notes (2021)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/2380-7172.3022
  • What Can We Learn from Idiosyncratic Wage Changes?
    Cynthia L. Doniger
    Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2021)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2021.055
  • The Ways the Cookie Crumbles: Education and the Margins of Cyclical Adjustment in the Labor Market
    Cynthia L. Doniger
    Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2021)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2021.019
  • Ten Days Late and Billions of Dollars Short: The Employment Effects of Delays in Paycheck Protection Program Financing
    Cynthia L. Doniger and Benjamin Kay
    Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2021)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2021.003
  • Substitutability of Monetary Policy Instruments
    Cynthia Doniger, James Hebden, Luke Pettit, and Arsenios Skaperdas
    FEDS Notes (2019)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/2380-7172.2284
  • Do Greasy Wheels Curb Inequality?
    Cynthia L. Doniger
    Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2019)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2019.021
  • Hysteresis via Endogenous Rigidity in Wages and Participation
    Cynthia L. Doniger and David López-Salido
    Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2018)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2017.044r1
  • Simulating the Macroeconomic Effects of Unconventional Monetary Policies
    Hess Chung, Cynthia Doniger, Cristina Fuentes-Albero, Bernd Schlusche, and Wei Zheng
    FEDS Notes (2018)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/2380-7172.2225
  • Wage dispersion with heterogeneous wage contracts
    Cynthia L. Doniger
    Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2015)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2015.023
  • conference

    Jun 2022

    North American Summer Meetings of the Econometric Society

    What Can We Learn from Asynchronous Wage Changes?

  • conference

    Jul 2022

    NBER SI Macro Perspectives

    These Caps Spilleth Over: Equilibrium Effects of Unemployment Insurance

  • conference

    Jan 2023

    ASSA-LERA

    These Caps Spilleth Over: Equilibrium Effects of Unemployment Insurance

Awards
  • 2018

    Thomas Laubach

    MA Division Director's Award for 2018 Q2

Conference Organization
  • April 11-12 | Washington, DC

    First DC Search and Matching

    Co-Organizer

  • November 18-20 | Washington, DC

    Macro-Labor-Finance (Session at the Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings)

    Co-Chair

  • November 18-20 | Washington, DC

    Macro-Labor / Search and Matching (Session at the Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings)

    Co-Chair

  • May 18-19 | Washington, DC

    Labor Market Dynamics and the Macroeconomy: Theory and Evidence

    Co-Organizer

Referee
  • Economic Letters
  • AEJ Public Policy
  • Journal of Money, Credit and Banking
  • Review of Economic Dynamics
  • Journal of Monetary Economics
  • Review of Economic Studies
  • International Economic Review
  • European Economic Review
  • National Science Foundation
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Last Update: September 16, 2024