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Karen A. Kopecky |
Updated: August 2010 |
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Research Department |
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karen.kopecky at atl.frb.org |
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Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta |
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404 498 8825 ext. 8974 |
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1000 Peachtree St. NE |
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http://www.karenkopecky.net |
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Atlanta, Georgia 30309-4470 |
Citizenship: |
United States |
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(404) 498-8956 |
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Education
Positions Held
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- 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.
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Research
Conference Presentations
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- 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.
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Seminar Presentations
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- 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.
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Discussions
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- "The Young, the Old, and the Restless: Demographics and Business Cycle Volatility," by Henery Siu and Nir Jaimovich. Canadian Macro Study Group, November 2006.
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Review and Editorial Work
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- Referee: American Economic Review, International Economic Review, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Macroeconomic Dynamics, The B.E. Journals of Macroeconomics.
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Teaching Experience
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- 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.
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Doctoral Student Supervision
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- 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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