Economist
Research Department
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
1 Memorial Drive
Kansas City, MO 64198
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Curriculum Vitae

Jun Nie is an Economist in the Economic Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.  He joined the department in June 2009.

Mr. Nie received his M.A. and Ph.D. from New York University.  He earned a Bachelor's Degree in Economics and one in Mathematics from Wuhan University.  In 2007-2008 he taught courses in Intermediate Macroeconomics and Statistics at New York University as an instructor.  In 2008 he was a dissertation intern at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.

Mr. Nie's current research focuses on studying unemployment and labor market policies, robust preferences and rational inattention, and wealth inequality.

• "Robustness, Information-Processing Constraints, and the Current Account in Small Open Economies"
  with Yulei Luo and Eric R. Young, Journal of International Economics, forthcoming.

• "Would Active Labor Market Policies Help Combat High U.S. Unemployment?"
  with Ethan Struby, Third Quarter 2011

• "Model Uncertainty, State Uncertainty, and State-space Models"
  with Yulei Luo and Eric R. Young, RWP 12-02
• "Model Uncertainty and Intertemporal Tax Smoothing"
  with Yulei Luo and Eric R. Young, RWP 12-01
• "Robustness, Information-Processing Constraints, and the Current Account in Small Open Economies"
  with Yulei Luo and Eric R. Young, RWP 10-17
• "Robust Control, Informational Frictions, and International Consumption Correlations"
  with Yulei Luo and Eric R. Young, RWP 10-16
• "Training or Search? Evidence and an Equilibrium Model" 
  RWP 10-03

• "Occupational Choice and Wealth Distribution" with Jess Benhabib and Shenghao Zhu