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Margaret M. Jacobson

Economist Monetary Studies Section Monetary Affairs
202-452-2453
[email protected]

Education

  • Ph.D., Economics, Indiana University, 2020
  • M.A., Economics, Indiana University, 2015
  • B.A., Economics and French, Oberlin College, 2011
Current Research Topics
  • Housing
  • Monetary and Fiscal Policy
  • Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

    2020 - present
  • Temporal Aggregation Bias and Monetary Policy Transmission
    Margaret M. Jacobson, Christian Matthes, and Todd B. Walker
    Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2023)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2022.054r1
  • Beliefs, Aggregate Risk, and the U.S. Housing Boom
    Margaret M. Jacobson
    Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2022)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2022.061
  • Recovery of 1933
    Margaret M. Jacobson, Eric M. Leeper, and Bruce Preston
    NBER Working Paper Series (2019)
    https://doi.org/10.3386/w25629
  • The Federal Reserve System and World War I: Designing Policies Without Precedent
    Ellis W. Tallman and Margaret M. Jacobson
    Working Paper (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland) (2015)
  • Liquidity Provision During the Crisis of 1914: Private and Public Sources
    Margaret M. Jacobson and Ellis W. Tallman
    Journal of Financial Stability (2015)
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfs.2014.07.004
Awards
  • 2015

    National Science Foundation

    Graduate Research Fellowship

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Last Update: April 24, 2023