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		Richard W. Evans Assistant Professor Brigham Young University Department of Economics office: 167 FOB phone: (801) 422-8303 e-mail: revans@byu.edu

Research Interests: • International macroeconomics • Monetary economics • Labor economics My research focuses on macroeconomic questions using dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models in which multiple countries strategically interact and policy is set optimally.		Teaching: • Econ 381, Intermediate Macroeconomics (Fall 2008, Winter 2009)

		Education: • Ph.D., Economics, The University of Texas at Austin (2008) • M.S., Economics, The University of Texas at Austin (2005) • M.A., Public Policy, Brigham Young University (2003) • B.A., Economics, Brigham Young University (1998)

Recent Publications: "Is Openness Inflationary? Imperfect Competition and Monetary Market Power," (October 2007) GMPI Working Paper #1, Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. "The Fertility Effect of Catastrophe: U.S. Hurricane Births," (forthcoming) joint with Yingyao Hu and Zhong Zhao, Journal of Population Economics.

Works in Progress: "State-dependent Optimal Monetary Policy," (June 2009) joint with Ian Fillmore and Jeffrey Humpherys. "OLG Life Cycle Models: New Solution Methods and Applications," (May 2009) joint with Kerk L. Phillips. "Is Openness Inflationary? Imperfect Competition and Monetary Market Power," (February 2009), submitted. [Technical Appendix] "Expectations, Open Economies, and Time-consistent Monetary Policy," (April 2008). "Openness, Inflation, and Imperfect Competition: Theory and Evidence," (February 2008).

Richard Evans