Willem Van Zandweghe
Economist
Research Department
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
1 Memorial Drive
Kansas City, MO 64198
Email: Willem.VanZandweghe@kc.frb.org

Biography	Curriculum vitae (PDF, 27 KB)
Publications in journals and books	Research Working Papers
Economic Review articles

Willem Van Zandweghe is an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. He joined the Bank in July 2008. His research currently focuses on optimal discretionary monetary policy in the Calvo model, equilibrium determinacy with interest rate policy in the presence of labor market search and matching frictions, and the role of such labor market frictions in the propagation of shocks. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Carnegie Mellon University in 2008.

Publications in professional journals and books

"Investment, Interest Rate Policy, and Equilibrium Stability," with Takushi Kurozumi, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2008, 32 (5), 1489-1516.

"Do Bivariate SVAR Models with Long-Run Identifying Restrictions Yield Reliable Results? An Investigation into the Case of Germany," with Jan Gottschalk, Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2003, 139 (1), 55-81.

Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Research Working Papers

"Labor Market Search and Interest Rate Policy," with Takushi Kurozumi, RWP 08-03 (PDF, 614K | Abstract)