Sean Severe

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

Sean Severe received his B.A. (Magna Cum Laude) in Economics in 2006 from Gonzaga University.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Severe intends to specialize in applied macroeconomics and Bayesian econometrics with applications to inflation and monetary policy. He has wider interests in mergers and acquisitions in the banking sector and its affect on optimal monetary policy. He is also interested in economic growth and microfinance.

FIELDS

• Microeconomics (Anne van den Nouweland, Chris Ellis, Van Kolpin)
• Macroeconomics (Mark Thoma, George Evans, Nicolas Magud)
• Econometrics(Peter Lambert, Larry Singell, Trudy Cameron)

• Adaptive Learning (George Evans)
• Monetary Thoery (Mark Thoma)
• Time Series Methods (Jeremy Piger)

• Industrial Organization (Wes Wilson)
• Panel Data Methods (Trudy Ann Cameron)
• International Trade (Ron Davies)
• Labor Economics (Larry Singell)
• Experimental Economics (William T. Harbaugh)

PAPERS

"Forecasting Inflation: Does Bayesian Model Averaging Outperform an Equally Weighted Average?" Paper

"Banking Concentration and Monetary Policy" Paper

"Finding Pure Inflation from Factor Models" Paper

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Sean has independently taught principals of macroeconomics as well as intermediate macroeconomics this Winter and Spring. He has also served as a teaching assistant for principals of microeconomics, intermediate microeconomics, principals of macroeconomics, intermediate macroeconomics, industrial organization, and econometrics. Responsibilities have included teaching discussion sections and review sessions, and the grading of homework.

MISCELLANEOUS

Updated: September 2008

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