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Christian Matthes

@cmatthes.bsky.social
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Econ Professor @ ND. Macroeconomics and (mainly Bayesian) Econometrics

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Notre Dame Economics @ndecon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Cool new working paper by our colleague Christian Matthes @cmatthes.bsky.social, "Beyond Aggregate VARs: A Bayesian Benchmark for HANK Models" (with Huber and Koop). Check it out: arxiv.org/abs/2609.06827
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Beyond Aggregate VARs: A Bayesian Benchmark for HANK Models
Heterogeneous-agent New Keynesian (HANK) models characterize how entire cross-sectional distributions respond to structural shocks. Traditional representative-agent models are routinely disciplined by...
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Christian Matthes @cmatthes.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Very excited to see this paper out in print. Codes are available on my GitHub: github.com/cm1518/large...
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GitHub - cm1518/large_structural_VARs
Contribute to cm1518/large_structural_VARs development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Christian Matthes @cmatthes.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Highly recommended!
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Notre Dame Economics @ndecon.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
A few of our colleagues checking out the now-famous St. Olaf's Ice Chapel on on North Quad. @notredame.bsky.social @kaseybuckles.bsky.social
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Notre Dame Economics @ndecon.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
New working paper from our colleague Christian Matthes (with Jonathan Adams), "How Ricardian Are We?" Short answer: not much! @cmatthes.bsky.social jonathanjadams.com/files/How%20...
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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 23/12/2025
I'll say it once more: German cuisine is severely underrated internationally, especially by Anglo-Saxons
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Notre Dame Economics @ndecon.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
We had a banner year with hiring last year, adding 11 (yes, 11!) new full-time faculty members. Check out this @ArtsLettersND news story highlighting the new members of our community: al.nd.edu/news/latest-... @cmatthes.bsky.social
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Department of Economics adds 11 leading scholars to its faculty, including two endowed chairs
The Department of Economics in the College of Arts & Letters at the University of Notre Dame has added 11 new economists to its faculty, including t...
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Notre Dame Economics @ndecon.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Hot off the presses at AEJ: Macro, "The Consumption Origins of Business Cycles: Lessons from Sectoral Dynamics" @aeajournals.bsky.social from our colleague Christian Matthes and Felipe Schwartzman www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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The Consumption Origins of Business Cycles: Lessons from Sectoral Dynamics
(October 2025) - We measure the impact of household consumption shocks on aggregate fluctuations. These shocks affect household consumption directly, and production and prices indirectly through their...
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Christian Matthes @cmatthes.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Connor Brennan, Maggie Jacobson, Todd Walker, and I have now made the shock series we created for our “Monetary Policy Shocks: Data or Methods?” paper public. Any comments are greatly appreciated! Data: doi.org/10.7910/DVN/MQ… Paper: cm1518.github.io/files/BMW.pdf
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Christian Matthes @cmatthes.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I am blessed and excited to move to Notre Dame. A fantastic department with many great colleagues in a special university.
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a football player is standing in front of a sign that says play we a champion today
ALT: a football player is standing in front of a sign that says play we a champion today
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Christian Matthes @cmatthes.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
It’s really been a labor of love - glad to see the paper finally out!
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Christian Matthes @cmatthes.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
I’ve been playing around with o1 pro mode, but for the things I had it do it didn’t seem worth the price relative to the $20 package. Any recommendations for tasks/prompts where pro mode shines? ( I wonder if the tasks I was asking it to do were too simple)
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Christian Matthes @cmatthes.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Listen guys, I don’t want to brag, but it looks like Econometrica really wants to publish my work
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Rudi Bachmann @bachmannrudi.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Mein Interview im Deutschlandfunk zur Wirtschaftskrise in Deutschland: www.deutschlandfunk.de/strukturelle...
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Strukturelle Wirtschaftskrise - was tun? Interview Ökonom Rüdiger Bachmann, Uni
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Christian Matthes @cmatthes.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Ethan is a great economist, but I think he found his true calling with this thread.
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Christian Matthes @cmatthes.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
“Detached from reality”? I strongly disagree. In terms of price levels (which is what households really care about), the change over the last few years was significant and permanent. Wages for many have not caught up, so these are real effects.
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Christian Matthes @cmatthes.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Great two day visit at the Cleveland Fed. I learned a lot!
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Christian Matthes @cmatthes.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
Crazy to think that 100 years ago the next stop on my train was the epicenter of math and physics research worldwide
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Christian Matthes @cmatthes.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
Da kommen Erinnerungen an die 80er hoch
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Christian Matthes @cmatthes.bsky.social · 08/10/2023
Highly recommended!
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Christian Matthes @cmatthes.bsky.social · 07/10/2023
Great quote! Makes me think of some fields in economics that still rely on static models, but then want to discuss the effects of policy changes.
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Christian Matthes @cmatthes.bsky.social · 30/09/2023
From a dinner talk by Lars Hansen at the conference in honor of my colleague Joon Park. This tension was huge when I was at the Fed - understanding (and appreciating) uncertainty is something many policymakers should work on.
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Christian Matthes @cmatthes.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
Come for the explanation why Thomas Lubik and I changed priors, stay for the many, many, many star based puns 🫣 www.richmondfed.org/publications...
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The Stars Our Destination: An Update for Our R* Model
The updates result in a less volatile r* series that more closely reflects our prior belief as to where r* likely is.
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Christian Matthes @cmatthes.bsky.social · 24/09/2023
Apparently Heisenberg didn’t need Linear Algebra to get into grad school 😁 ( from “The Man from the Future” by A. Bhattacharya)
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Christian Matthes @cmatthes.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
We’re hiring at IU! In particular, we’re looking to hire an endowed chair in macro. If you are interested feel free to reach out! I think we have a great department with lots of people doing really cool research. indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/20326
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Associate or Full Professor in Economics
The Department of Economics at Indiana University, Bloomington invites applications for tenured position at the rank of Associate or Full Professor in the field of Macroeconomics to begin in the fall ...
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