Bruce McGough Associate Professor Department of Economics Oregon State University Corvallis, OR 97331

General Information

    Office:        319, Ballard Extension Hall
    Phone:        541-737-1429
    E-Mail:       bruce.mcgough@orst.edu

Professional Information

Curriculum Vita

Course Information

Econ 571: Go to OSU Blackboard

Working Papers

1. Adaptive Learning in Regime Switching Models (June, 2008)

2. Dynamic Predictor Selection in a New Keynesian Model with Heterogeneous Expectations (September, 2008)

3. Representations and Sunspot Stability (August, 2008)

4. A New-Keynesian Model with Heterogeneous Expectations (August, 2008)

5. Implementing Optimal Monetary Policy in New-Keynesian Models with Inertia (May, 2008)

6. Harvesting a Stochastic Renewable Resource under General Economic Conditions (March, 2008)

7. Adaptive Learning, Endogenous Inattention, and Changes in Monetary Policy (January, 2007)

8. Stable Finite-State Markov Sunspots (May 2007)

9. A Numerical Approach to Learning with Time-Varying Parameters (April, 2002)

Publications

1. Monetary Policy, Endogenous Inattention, and the Volatility Tradeoff (with William Branch, John Carlson and George Evans), Economic Journal, Forthcoming.

2. Monetary-Fiscal Policy Interactions under Implementable Monetary Policy Rules (with William Branch and Troy Davig) Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, , 2008, Volume 40 Issue 5, Pages 1095 - 1102.

3. Replicator Dynamics in a Cobweb Model with Rationally Heterogeneous Expectations (with William Branch), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2008, vol. 65, issue 2, pages 224-244.

4. Optimal Constrained Interest-rate Rules (with George Evans), Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 2007, Volume 39 Issue 6, Pages 1335 - 1356.

5. Shocking Escapes, Economic Journal, 2006, 116, p. 507 - 528.

6. Indeterminacy and the Stability Puzzle in Non-Convex Economies (with George Evans), Contributions to Macroeconomics, BE-Press,  2005, Vol. 5, Issue 1, Article 8 .

7. Using the Long Term Interest Rate as a Monetary Policy Instrument (with Glenn Rudebusch and John Wiliams), Journal of Monetary Economics, 2005 (52), p. 855 - 879.

8. Monetary Policy and Stable Indeterminacy with Inertia (with George Evans), Economics Lettters, 2005, (87) pp 1 - 7.

9. Monetary Policy, Indeterminacy, and Learning (with George Evans), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2005 (29) p. 1809 - 1840

10. Stable Sunspot Solutions in Models with Predetermined Variables (with George Evans), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2005, (29) p. 601 - 625.

11. Consistent Expectations and Misspecification in Stochastic Non-linear Economies (with William Branch), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2005, (29) p. 659 – 676.

12. Multiple Equilibria in Heterogeneous Expectations Models (with William Branch), Contributions to Macroeconomics, BE-Press, 2004, Vol. 4, Issue 1, Article 12.

1. The Dynamic Behavior of Efficient Timber Prices (with A. Plantinga and B. Provencher, Land Economics, Feb. 2004)

2. Statistical Learning with Time-Varying Parameters (Macroeconomic Dynamics, Feb. 2003)