2024-09-30
1 小时 0 分钟Welcome to Macro musings, where each week we pull back the curtain and take a closer look at the most important macroeconomic issues of the past, present, and future.
I am your host, David Beckwourth, a senior research fellow at the Mercator center at George Mason University.
And I'm glad you decided to join us.
Our guest today is Thomas Drexlereghe.
Thomas is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Maryland, and he joins us today to discuss political pressure on the Fed and new ways to measure monetary policy shocks.
Thomas, welcome to the show.
Thanks, David.
It's great to be here.
Well, it's great to have you on.
You've got some really interesting work.
Your research has dealt a lot with measuring shocks, innovation, identification issues, using this narrative approach.
So there's always something new being developed in the academy.
And it's also very relevant because there's a lot of discussion about Trump and the Fed and what's going to happen after the election.
So you've got some really neat papers we're going to get into in terms of political pressure and monetary policy shocks.
But before we do that, tell us about your journey into your career and how you got here.
Sure.
So I grew up in Germany.
My accent gives that away quickly.
And in high school, I was interested in a lot of things in math, sciences, history, languages.
I was sure I wanted to go to college, but I didn't quite know what to study, and it was difficult to decide.