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Thomas Michael Mertens

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First Name:Thomas
Middle Name:Michael
Last Name:Mertens
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RePEc Short-ID:pme415
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https://sites.google.com/site/thomasmichaelmertens/
Terminal Degree:2009 Department of Economics; Harvard University (from RePEc Genealogy)

Affiliation

Economic Research
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

San Francisco, California (United States)
http://www.frbsf.org/economics/

: (415) 974-3190
(415) 974-2168
P.O. Box 7702, San Francisco, CA 94120-7702
RePEc:edi:erfsfus (more details at EDIRC)

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Working papers

  1. Mertens, Thomas M. & Williams, John C., 2019. "Monetary policy frameworks and the effective lower bound on interest rates," Staff Reports 877, Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
  2. Mertens, Thomas M. & Williams, John C., 2018. "What to Expect from the Lower Bound on Interest Rates: Evidence from Derivatives Prices," Working Paper Series 2018-3, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
  3. Tarek A. Hassan & Thomas M. Mertens, 2011. "The Social Cost of Near-Rational Investment," NBER Working Papers 17027, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  4. Roc Armenter & Thomas M. Mertens, 2010. "Fraud deterrence in dynamic Mirrleesian economies," Working Papers 10-7, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.
  5. Thomas Mertens, 2005. "Option pricing with sparse grids," Computing in Economics and Finance 2005 449, Society for Computational Economics.

Articles

  1. Mertens, Thomas M. & Shultz, Patrick & Tubbs, Michael, 2018. "Valuation Ratios for Households and Businesses," FRBSF Economic Letter, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
  2. Bauer, Michael D. & Mertens, Thomas M., 2018. "Economic Forecasts with the Yield Curve," FRBSF Economic Letter, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
  3. Bauer, Michael D. & Mertens, Thomas M., 2018. "Information in the Yield Curve about Future Recessions," FRBSF Economic Letter, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
  4. Mertens, Thomas M. & Shultz, Patrick, 2017. "China's Exchange Rate Policies and U.S. Financial Markets," FRBSF Economic Letter, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
  5. Fernald, John G. & Mertens, Thomas M. & Shultz, Patrick, 2017. "Has the Dollar Become More Sensitive to Interest Rates?," FRBSF Economic Letter, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
  6. Tarek A. Hassan & Thomas M. Mertens, 2011. "Market Sentiment: A Tragedy of the Commons," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 101(3), pages 402-405, May.

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  1. Tarek A. Hassan & Thomas M. Mertens, 2011. "The Social Cost of Near-Rational Investment," NBER Working Papers 17027, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

    Mentioned in:

    1. The high welfare cost of small information failures
      by Economic Logician in Economic Logic on 2011-06-09 20:19:00

Working papers

  1. Tarek A. Hassan & Thomas M. Mertens, 2011. "The Social Cost of Near-Rational Investment," NBER Working Papers 17027, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

    Cited by:

    1. Chahrour, Ryan & Gaballo, Gaetano, 2017. "Learning from prices: amplication and business fluctuations," Working Paper Series 2053, European Central Bank.
    2. Andreas Fuster & Benjamin Hebert & David Laibson, 2011. "Natural Expectations, Macroeconomic Dynamics, and Asset Pricing," NBER Working Papers 17301, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    3. Lansing, Kevin J., 2012. "Speculative growth, overreaction, and the welfare cost of technology-driven bubbles," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 83(3), pages 461-483.
    4. Brock Mendel & Andrei Shleifer, "undated". "Chasing Noise," Working Paper 19517, Harvard University OpenScholar.
    5. Elena Asparouhova & Peter Bossaerts & Nilanjan Roy & William Zame, 2013. "‘Lucas’ In The Laboratory," EIEF Working Papers Series 1314, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF), revised May 2013.
    6. Steffen Elstner & Ruediger Bachmann, 2013. "Firms' Optimism and Pessimism," 2013 Meeting Papers 623, Society for Economic Dynamics.
    7. David, Joel M. & Simonovska, Ina, 2016. "Correlated beliefs, returns, and stock market volatility," Journal of International Economics, Elsevier, vol. 99(S1), pages 58-77.
    8. Adam, Klaus & Beutel, Johannes & Marcet, Albert, 2014. "Stock Price Booms and Expected Capital Gains," Working Papers 14-12, University of Mannheim, Department of Economics.
    9. Avanidhar Subrahmanyam & Sheridan Titman, 2013. "Financial Market Shocks and the Macroeconomy," NBER Working Papers 19383, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    10. Tarek A. Hassan & Thomas M. Mertens, 2014. "Information Aggregation in a Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Model," NBER Chapters,in: NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2014, Volume 29, pages 159-207 National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    11. Kyle Jurado, 2016. "Advance Information and Distorted Beliefs in Macroeconomic and Financial Fluctuations," 2016 Meeting Papers 154, Society for Economic Dynamics.
    12. Straub, Ludwig & Ulbricht, Robert, 2015. "Endogenous Uncertainty and Credit Crunches," TSE Working Papers 15-604, Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), revised Dec 2017.
    13. Tarek A. Hassan & Stephan Hollander & Laurence van Lent & Ahmed Tahoun, 2017. "Firm-Level Political Risk: Measurement and Effects," NBER Working Papers 24029, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    14. Fuchs-Schündeln, N. & Hassan, T.A., 2016. "Natural Experiments in Macroeconomics," Handbook of Macroeconomics, Elsevier.
    15. Itay Goldstein & Emre Ozdenoren & Kathy Yuan, 2011. "Trading Frenzies and their Impact on Real Investment," FMG Discussion Papers dp670, Financial Markets Group.
    16. Mertens, Thomas M. & Judd, Kenneth L., 2018. "Solving an incomplete markets model with a large cross-section of agents," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Elsevier, vol. 91(C), pages 349-368.
    17. Giacomo Rondina & Todd Walker, 2016. "Learning and Informational Stability of Dynamic REE with Incomplete Information," Review of Economic Dynamics, Elsevier for the Society for Economic Dynamics, vol. 21, pages 147-159, July.
    18. Hassan, Tarek & Mertens, Thomas M., 2014. "Information Aggregation in a DSGE Model," CEPR Discussion Papers 10020, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    19. Ryan Chahrour & Gaetano Gaballo, 2015. "On the Nature and Stability of Sentiments," Boston College Working Papers in Economics 873, Boston College Department of Economics, revised 05 May 2015.
    20. Thomas Mertens, 2012. "Solving General Incomplete Market Models with Substantial Heterogeneity," 2012 Meeting Papers 1173, Society for Economic Dynamics.
    21. Stephen J. Terry, 2015. "The Macro Impact of Short-Termism," Discussion Papers 15-022, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.
    22. Wei Xiong & Alp Simsek & Markus Brunnermeier, 2014. "A Welfare Criterion for Models with Distorted Beliefs," 2014 Meeting Papers 1418, Society for Economic Dynamics.
    23. Tarek A. Hassan & Thomas M. Mertens, 2011. "Market Sentiment: A Tragedy of the Commons," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 101(3), pages 402-405, May.
    24. Indrajit Mitra & Leonid Kogan, 2014. "Accuracy Verification for Numerical Solutions of Equilibrium Models," 2014 Meeting Papers 423, Society for Economic Dynamics.
    25. Kenneth J. Singleton, 2014. "Investor Flows and the 2008 Boom/Bust in Oil Prices," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 60(2), pages 300-318, February.
    26. Colacito, Riccardo & Croce, Mariano Massimiliano & Ho, Steven & Howard, Philip, 2018. "BKK the EZ Way. International Long-Run Growth News and Capital Flows," CEPR Discussion Papers 12783, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    27. Angeletos, G.-M. & Lian, C., 2016. "Incomplete Information in Macroeconomics," Handbook of Macroeconomics, Elsevier.

  2. Roc Armenter & Thomas M. Mertens, 2010. "Fraud deterrence in dynamic Mirrleesian economies," Working Papers 10-7, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.

    Cited by:

    1. B. Ravikumar & Yuzhe Zhang, 2011. "Optimal auditing and insurance in a dynamic model of tax compliance," Working Papers 2011-020, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
    2. Zoutman, Floris T. & Jacobs, Bas, 2016. "Optimal redistribution and monitoring of labor supply," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 135(C), pages 15-31.
    3. Chen, Yunmin & Chien, YiLi & Yang, C.C., 2015. "Individual and Aggregate Constrained Efficient Intertemporal Wedges in Dynamic Mirrleesian Economies," Working Papers 2015-43, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, revised 01 Apr 2016.

  3. Thomas Mertens, 2005. "Option pricing with sparse grids," Computing in Economics and Finance 2005 449, Society for Computational Economics.

    Cited by:

    1. Daniel Gull, 2011. "Valuation of Discount Options in Software License Agreements," Business & Information Systems Engineering: The International Journal of WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK, Springer;Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI), vol. 3(4), pages 221-230, August.

Articles

  1. Bauer, Michael D. & Mertens, Thomas M., 2018. "Economic Forecasts with the Yield Curve," FRBSF Economic Letter, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.

    Cited by:

    1. Gerlach, Stefan & Stuart, Rebecca, 2018. "The Slope of the Term Structure and Recessions: The Pre-Fed Evidence, 1857-1913," CEPR Discussion Papers 13013, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    2. Brainard, Lael, 2018. "Sustaining Full Employment and Inflation around Target : a speech at the Forecasters Club of New York, New York, New York, May 31, 2018," Speech 1005, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
    3. Bauer, Michael D. & Mertens, Thomas M., 2018. "Information in the Yield Curve about Future Recessions," FRBSF Economic Letter, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
    4. Eric Engstrom & Steven A. Sharpe, 2018. "The Near-Term Forward Yield Spread as a Leading Indicator : A Less Distorted Mirror," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2018-055, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (US).

  2. Fernald, John G. & Mertens, Thomas M. & Shultz, Patrick, 2017. "Has the Dollar Become More Sensitive to Interest Rates?," FRBSF Economic Letter, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.

    Cited by:

    1. Matthieu Bussiere & Menzie D. Chinn & Laurent Ferrara & Jonas Heipertz, 2018. "The New Fama Puzzle," NBER Working Papers 24342, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

  3. Tarek A. Hassan & Thomas M. Mertens, 2011. "Market Sentiment: A Tragedy of the Commons," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 101(3), pages 402-405, May.

    Cited by:

    1. Thomas M. Mertens & Tarek A. Hassan, 2010. "The Social Cost of Near-Rational Investment," 2010 Meeting Papers 370, Society for Economic Dynamics.
    2. George-Marios Angeletos & Chen Lian, 2016. "Incomplete Information in Macroeconomics: Accommodating Frictions in Coordination," NBER Working Papers 22297, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    3. Vives, Xavier & Yang, Liyan, 2017. "Costly Interpretation of Asset Prices," CEPR Discussion Papers 12360, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    4. Vladimir Asriyan & William Fuchs & Brett Green, 2017. "Liquidity sentiments," Economics Working Papers 1583, Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, revised Jun 2018.
    5. Angeletos, G.-M. & Lian, C., 2016. "Incomplete Information in Macroeconomics," Handbook of Macroeconomics, Elsevier.

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NEP is an announcement service for new working papers, with a weekly report in each of many fields. This author has had 5 papers announced in NEP. These are the fields, ordered by number of announcements, along with their dates. If the author is listed in the directory of specialists for this field, a link is also provided.
  1. NEP-MAC: Macroeconomics (3) 2016-08-28 2018-02-19 2018-09-10
  2. NEP-CTA: Contract Theory & Applications (2) 2010-04-11 2011-05-14
  3. NEP-MON: Monetary Economics (2) 2018-02-19 2018-09-10
  4. NEP-CBA: Central Banking (1) 2018-09-10
  5. NEP-IAS: Insurance Economics (1) 2010-04-11

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