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Karen A. Kopecky

Updated: August 2010

Address:	Research Department	Email:	karen.kopecky at atl.frb.org
	Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta	Phone:	404 498 8825 ext. 8974
	1000 Peachtree St. NE	Website:	http://www.karenkopecky.net
	Atlanta, Georgia 30309-4470	Citizenship:	United States
Fax:	(404) 498-8956

Education

University of Rochester, Rochester, NY Ph.D. in Economics, October 2007 M.A. in Economics, August 2003 State University of New York at Buffalo, Amherst, NY B.A. in Economics, May 2001 B.S. in Applied Mathematics, May 2001

Positions Held

Research Economist and Assistant Policy Advisor, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, August 2010--present. Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario, July 2006--July 2010. Long-term Visitor, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, August 2009--November 2009.

Research

"Finite State Markov-Chain Approximations to Highly Persistent Processes." Joint with Richard M. H. Suen. May 2009. Review of Economic Dynamics 13 (2010), pp. 701-714. ``The Impact of Medical and Nursing Home Expenses and Social Insurance Policies on Savings and Inequality." Joint with Tatyana Koreshokova. November 2008. Submitted. ``Measuring the Welfare Gain from Personal Computers." Joint with Jeremy Greenwood. (2007) NBER Working Paper 13592. Submitted. ``The Trend in Retirement." July 2005. International Economic Review, forthcoming. ``A Quantitative Analysis of Suburbanization and the Diffusion of the Automobile." Joint with Richard M. H. Suen. January 2004. International Economic Review, forthcoming. "A Situation in Which a Local Nontoxic Refuge Promotes Pest Resistance to Toxic Crops." With Jemal Mohammed-Awel and John Ringland. Theoretical Population Biology (2007), 131--146.

Conference Presentations

Midwest Economic Association Meetings, March 2010, Evanston. Laboratory for Aggregate Economics and Finance, October 2009, Conference on Health and the Macroeconomy, Univeristy of California at Santa Barbara. Society for Economic Dynamics, July 2009, Annual Meetings, Istanbul. Canadian Macro Study Group, November 2008, Annual Meetings, Toronto. University of Rochester, October 2008, Wegman's Conference, Rochester. University of Kiel, September 2008, Conference on Income Distrubtion and the Family, Kiel. National Bureau of Economic Research Summer Institute, July 2008, Conference on Research in Income and Wealth, Cambridge. Society for Economic Dynamics, July 2008, Annual Meetings, Boston. Midwest Macro Meetings , May 2008, Philadelphia. University of Rochester, October 2007, Wegman's Conference, Rochester. Society for Economic Dynamics, July 2006, Annual Meetings, Vancouver. Laboratory for Aggregate Economics and Finance, June 2006, Housing Workshop, Univeristy of California at Santa Barbara. Midwest Macroeconomics Meetings, May 2006, St. Louis. Bank of Canada, April 2006, Labour Supply and Productivity Life Cycle Workshop, Ottawa. Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics, August 2005, Summer Workshop on "The Nexus between Household Economics and the Macro Economy", Stanford. National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2005, Urban Economics Working Group Meeting, Cambridge. Society for Economic Dynamics, July 2004, Annual Meetings, Florence.

Seminar Presentations

University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, March 2010. Queen's University, March 2010. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Janruary 2010. Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, August 2009. University of Wisconsin - Madison, March 2009. Wharton, December 2008. Concordia University, May 2007 and May 2008. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, March 2007. University of Guelph, December 2006. York University, November 2006. University of Texas at San Antonio, April 2006. Universidad Carlos III do Madrid, April 2006. Cornell University, March 2006. University of Western Ontario, March 2006. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, March 2006. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, March 2006. Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, February 2006. University of California at Santa Barbara, January 2006. Purdue University, January 2006. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, January 2006. Stanford University, January 2006. University of Rochester, October 2005.

 

Discussions

"The Young, the Old, and the Restless: Demographics and Business Cycle Volatility," by Henery Siu and Nir Jaimovich. Canadian Macro Study Group, November 2006.

 

Review and Editorial Work

Referee: American Economic Review, International Economic Review, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Macroeconomic Dynamics, The B.E. Journals of Macroeconomics.

Teaching Experience

Assistant Professor, Economics Department, University of Western Ontario, 2006--present. Courses: Advanced Macroeconomics (Undergraduate Honours), Winter 2010, Winter 2009, Winter 2008 and Winter 2007. Intermediate Macroeconomics (Undergraduate Honours), Winter 2010 and Fall 2008. Computational Methods for Macroeconomics and Applications (Graduate), Fall 2007 and Fall 2006. Economic Statistics (Undergraduate), Fall 2007. Lecturer, Economics Department, University of Rochester, 2004 and 2005. Courses: Econometrics, Summer 2004 and 2005. Programming in C++, Fall 2004 and Fall 2005. Teaching Assistant, Economics Department, University of Rochester, 2002--2006. Courses: Macroeconomics II (Graduate), Spring 2005 and Spring 2006. Econometrics, Spring 2004. Econometrics, Fall 2003. Economic Statistics, Spring 2003. Intermediate Microeconomics, Fall 2002.

Doctoral Student Supervision

Co-supervision of Kai (Jackie) Zhao, Phd: May 2010 (expected). Co-supervision and thesis examination of Yufei Yuan, Phd: May 2009. Co-supervision of Evan Davies, Phd: May 2009 (engineering) .

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