Education
Ph.D. Economics
University of Iowa
1993
B.S.F.S.
International Economics
Georgetown University
Washington, DC
1988
Contact Info
Phone: (314) 444-8568
Fax: (314) 444-8731
Email: neely@stls.frb.org
Research Division
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
P.O. Box 442
St. Louis, MO 63166-0442
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Office: (314) 444-8783
Cell: (314) 313-3783
Christopher J. Neely
Assistant Vice President
Welcome to
my web page. I do empirical research in international finance, with an
emphasis on issues of market efficiency. Almost all my working papers
and early versions of published papers are available through this page
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Most Recent Published Papers
"Lessons from the Evolution of Foreign Exchange Trading Strategies"
with Paul A. Weller
FORTHCOMING: Journal of Banking and Finance.
"Capital Flows and Japanese Asset Volatility"
with Brett W. Fawley
Pacific Economic Review, August 2012, 17(3), pp. 391-414.
"Technical Analysis in the Foreign Exchange Market"
with Paul A. Weller
Wiley Handbook of Exchange Rates, June 2012, pp. 343-374.
"International Comovements in Inflation Rates and Country Characteristics"
with David E. Rapach
Journal of International Money and Finance, November 2011, 7(30), pp. 1471-90.
"Jumps, Cojumps and Macro Announcements"
with Jérôme Lahaye and Sébastien Laurent
Journal of Applied Econometrics, September/October 2011, 26(6), pp. 893-921.
"The Adaptive Markets Hypothesis: Evidence from the Foreign Exchange Market"
with Paul A. Weller and Joshua M. Ulrich
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, April 2009, 44(2), pp. 467-88.
"Forecasting Foreign Exchange Volatility: Why Is Implied Volatility Biased and Inefficient? And Does It Matter?"
Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, February 2009, 19(1), pp. 188-205.
"Foreign Exchange Volatility is Priced in Equities"
with Hui Guo and Jason Higbee
Financial Management, Winter 2008, 37(4), pp. 769-90.
Selected Published Papers
"The Temporal Pattern of Trading Rule Returns and Exchange Rate Intervention: Intervention Does Not Generate Technical Trading Rule Profits"
Journal of International Economics, October 2002, 58(1), pp. 211-32.
"Risk Aversion Versus Intertemporal Substitution: A Case Study of Identification Failure in the Intertemporal Consumption Capital Asset Pricing Model"
with Amlan Roy and Charles Whiteman
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, October 2001, 19(4), pp. 395-403.
"Is Technical Analysis in the Foreign Exchange Market Profitable? A Genetic Programming Approach"
with Paul Weller and Robert Dittmar
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, December 1997, 32(4), pp. 405-26.
Most Recent Working Papers
"Forecasting the Equity Risk Premium: The Role of Technical Indicators"
with David E. Rapach, Jun Tu, and Guofu Zhou
Working Paper 2010-008G, posted March 2010, updated May 2013.
"International Channels of the Fed’s Unconventional Monetary Policy"
with Michael D. Bauer
Working Paper 2012-028B, posted August 2012, updated February 2013.
"The Large-Scale Asset Purchases Had Large International Effects"
Working Paper 2010-018D, posted July 2010, updated April 2012.
Most Recent Review Articles
"Four Stories of Quantitative Easing"
with Brett Fawley
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, January/February 2013, 95(1), pp. 51-88.
"A Foreign Exchange Intervention in an Era of Restraint"
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, September/October 2011, 93(5), pp. 303-324.
"A Survey of Announcement Effects on Foreign Exchange Volatility and Jumps"
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, September/October 2011, 93(5), pp. 361-385.
Appendix
"A Survey of Announcement Effects on Foreign Exchange Returns"
with S. Rubun Dey
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, September/October 2010, 92(5), pp. 417-63.
Appendix
"Systemic Risk and the Financial Crisis: A Primer"
with James Bullard and David C. Wheelock
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, September/October 2009, 91(5, Part 1), pp. 403-17.
"Real Interest Rate Persistence: Evidence and Implications"
with David E. Rapach
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, November/December 2008, 90(6), pp. 609-41.
Most Recent Regional Economist Articles
"Reader Exchange: Why are economists unconcerned about foreign investment in the United States?"
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis The Regional Economist, April 2008, p. 23.
"Why Do Gasoline Prices React to Things That Have Not Happened?"
with William Emmons
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis The Regional Economist, July 2007, pp. 10-11.
Other Publications, Book Reviews and Edited Volumes
"Econometric Modeling of Exchange Rate Volatility and Jumps"
with Deniz Erdemlioglu, and Sébastien Laurent
in Adrian R. Bell, Chris Brooks, Marcel Prokopczuk, eds., Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Empirical Finance, 2013, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. Part V(16), pp. 373-427.
"The Microstructure of the U.S. Treasury Market"
with Bruce Mizrach
in Robert A. Meyers, ed., Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science, 2009, New York: Springer-Verlag.
Review of The Crisis of Global Capitalism by George Soros,
The Journal of Finance, October 1999, pp. 1923-27.
Editorial Activities
Associate Editor, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 1999-2002.
Associate Editor, Quantitative Finance, 2000-present.
Associate Editor, Applied Economics, 2001-present.
Co-editor, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 2003-2008.
Editor, International Economic Trends of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 2003-2011.
Associate Editor, Annals of Financial Economics, 2004-present
Special Issue Editor, International Journal of Finance and Economics, Special Issue on Foreign Exchange Intervention, April 2007.
Associate Editor, Journal of Financial Research, 2011-present
Most Recent Cover Pages and Commentary
"Would It Help To Eliminate Interest on Reserves?"
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Synopses, 2013, No. 8.
"Political Pressure on the Bank of Japan: Interference or Accountability?"
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Synopses, 2013, No. 7.
"The Mysterious Greek Yield Curve"
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Synopses, 2012, No. 6.
"The Great Foreign Exchange Intervention of 2011"
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Synopses, 2011, No. 23.
"Fiscal Policy and Expected Inflation"
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Monetary Trends, March 2011.
"Fiscal Policy and Expected Inflation"
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Synopses, 2011, No. 8.
"The Difference Between Currency Manipulation and Monetary Policy"
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Synopses, 2011, No. 5.
"U.S. Historical Experience with Deflation"
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis National Economic Trends, October 2010.
"The Effects of Large-Scale Asset Purchases on TIPS Inflation Expectations"
with Massimo Guidolin
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis National Economic Trends, September 2010.
"'How Central Should the Central Bank Be?' A Comment"
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Synopses, 2010, No. 10.
Most Recent Workshops and Presentations
All the workshops and presentations listed below are available in HTML, PDF and/or PowerPoint formats
"European Debt Crisis and US Implications, September 2012"
"Central Banks and Alternative Monetary Systems, October 2011"
"Exchange Rates, October 2011"
"Economic Outlook, August 2011"
"The Origins of the Financial Crisis"
"European Debt Crisis and US Implications"
"Exchange Rates and the Current Account"
"Prosperity in a Challenging Global Economy"
