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Kevin L. Kliesen Business Economist for the Supervisory Policy and Risk Analysis Unit

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Economic Data

"Measuring Financial Market Stress"
with Douglas C. Smith
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis National Economic Trends, January 2010.
— The St. Louis Fed's Financial Stress Index (STLFSI): Appendix  |  Data

Working Papers

2010-007A "Do Oil Shocks Drive Business Cycles? Some U.S. and International Evidence" - March 2010
with Kristie M. Engemann and Michael T. Owyang
Abstract | Full Text ( PDF 346K )

2005-067A "Productivity Measurement and Monetary Policymaking During the 1990s" - October 2005
with Richard G. Anderson
Abstract | Full Text ( PDF 579K )

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Review Articles

"FOMC Learning and Productivity Growth (1985-2003): A Reading of the Record"
with Richard G. Anderson
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, November/December 2006, 88(6), pp. 511-26.

"Oil and the U.S. Macroeconomy: An Update and a Simple Forecasting Exercise"
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, September/October 2008, 90(5), pp. 505-16.

"Forecasting Inflation and Output: Comparing Data-Rich Models with Simple Rules"
with William T. Gavin
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, May/June 2008, 90(3, Part 1), pp. 175-92.

"How Well Does Employment Predict Output?"
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, September/October 2007, 89(5), pp. 433-46.

More Review Articles

Articles in Other Federal Reserve Publications

"Economy Is Nearing Cruising Altitude"
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis The Regional Economist, July 2010, p. 23.

"Signs Point toward Another Jobless Recovery"
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis The Regional Economist, April 2010, p. 17.

"Inflation May Be the Next Dragon To Slay"
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis The Regional Economist, January 2010, pp. 4-9.

"Commercial Real Estate: A Drag for Some Banks but Maybe Not for U.S. Economy"
with Rajeev Bhaskar and Yadav Gopalan
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis The Regional Economist, January 2010, pp. 10-11.

"The Recovery Might Be a 98-Pound Weakling"
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis The Regional Economist, January 2010, p. 19.

"Book Review: In Fed We Trust: New Book Focuses on the Fed in the Eye of the Storm"
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis The Regional Economist, October 2009, pp. 21-22.

"Digging into the Infrastructure Debate"
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis The Regional Economist, July 2009, pp. 4-9.

More Articles

Journals

"Deregulation or Reregulation of Agricultural Banks"
with R. Alton Gilbert
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, August 1995, 77(3), pp. 757-61.

"Effects on Interest Rates of Immediately Releasing FOMC Directives"
with Michael T. Belongia
Contemporary Economic Policy, October 1994, 12(4), pp. 1-13.

Recent Commentary

"Q & A with Kevin Kliesen"
Illinois Business Journal, June 2010.

"Measuring Financial Market Stress"
with Douglas C. Smith
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Synopses, 2010, No. 2.

"Dating the End of the Recession: Evaluating the Economic Indicators"
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Synopses, 2009, No. 28.

All Commentary

Book Reviews

"Chairman of the Fed: William McChesney Martin, Jr. and the Creation of the American Financial System"
by Robert P. Bremner, 2004
Business Economics, July 2005, pp. 61-62.

"The Coming Generational Storm: What you Need to Know about America's Economic Future"
by Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Scott Burns, 2004
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis The Region, June 2005, pp. 48-53.

Presentations and Outlook Talks

"Examining the U.S. Economic Outlook"
Professors Conference
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, February 16, 2005.

"The Blue Chip Survey: Moving Beyond the Consensus"
ASSA Annual Meeting
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 7, 2005.

"The Economy and the 2004 Election"
Trinity University
San Antonio, Texas, October 27, 2004.

"The U.S. Economic Outlook: Soft Patch, Sink Hole, or Springboard?"
San Antonio Business and Economics Society
San Antonio, Texas, October 27, 2004.

"The U.S. Economic Outlook"
State of the Economy: Panel Session
Missouri Valley Economics Association
Nashville, Tennessee, October 14, 2004.

Education

Degree	Institution	Major	Date
M.A.	Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado	Economics	1989
B.S.	Colorado State University	Agricultural Business	1985