Christian Zimmermann
Assistant Vice President of Research Information Services
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business cycles, stochastic dynamic general equilibrium models with heterogeneous agents, political economy of social policies, housingSelected Work
“Getting Seen: Results from an Online Experiment to Draw More Attention to Replications”
with Tom Coupé and W. Robert Reed
Research Policy, 2023, Vol. 52, No. 8, 104841
“Parenthood and Productivity of Highly Skilled Labor: Evidence from the Groves of Academe”
with Matthias Krapf and Heinrich W. Ursprung
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, August 2017, Vol. 140, pp. 147-175
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“Academic Rankings with RePEc”
Econometrics, December 2013, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 249-280
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“Measuring Unemployment Insurance Generosity”
with Stéphane Pallage and Lyle Scruggs
Political Analysis, October 2013, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 524-549
“Author Identification in Economics...and Beyond”
with Thomas Krichel
Schmollers Jahrbuch: Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, September 2013, Vol. 133, No. 3, pp. 461-475
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“Global Climate Change, the Economy, and the Resurgence of Tropical Disease”
with Douglas Gollin
Mathematical Population Studies, February 2012, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 51-62
“The Economics of Citation”
Korean Economic Review, Summer 2011, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 93-114
“La dissémination de la recherche en sciences économiques: les cahiers de recherche“
Hermès, February 2010, Vol. 57, pp. 43-46
“Unemployment Insurance Generosity: A Trans-Atlantic Comparison”
with Stéphane Pallage and Lyle Scruggs
Annales d'Economie et de Statistiques (Annals of Economics and Statistics), July/December 2009, Vol. 95, No. 6, pp. 15-24
“International Business Cycles: What are the Facts?”
with Steve Ambler and Emanuela Cardia
Journal of Monetary Economics, March 2004, Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 257–276
“Voting on Unemployment Insurance”
with Stéphane Pallage
International Economic Review, November 2001, Vol. 42, No. 4, pp. 903–923
“International Real Business Cycles among Heterogeneous Countries”
European Economic Review, February 1997, Vol. 41, No. 2, pp. 319–355
“The Basel Accord and Financial Intermediation: The Impact of Policy”
with Martin Berka
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, Second Quarter 2018
“M stands for money”
FRED Blog, August 1, 2024
“GDP per capita in the five largest European economies”
FRED Blog, July 25, 2024
“What is federal debt worth?”
FRED Blog, June 24, 2024
“Comparing state taxes”
FRED Blog, June 17, 2024
“The price of natural gas has never been this low”
FRED Blog, May 23, 2024
“The price of electricity across metro areas”
FRED Blog, May 20, 2024
“Ice cream is a seasonal product, right?”
FRED Blog, May 16, 2024
“Pie charts about pie on π day”
FRED Blog, March 14, 2024
“The economic impact of February 29”
FRED Blog, February 29, 2024
“Is e-commerce back to “normal”?”
FRED Blog, February 26, 2024
“How binding is the federal minimum wage?”
FRED Blog, January 22, 2024
“A Journal Ranking Based on Central Bank Citations” (PDF)
with Raphael Auer and Giulio Cornelli
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper 2023-027A, October 2023
“Paving the Road for Replications: Experimental Results from an Online Research Bibliography” (PDF)
with Tom Coupé and W. Robert Reed
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper 2021-013B, October 2021
“Collaboration in Bipartite Networks, with an Application to Coauthorship Networks” (PDF)
with Chih-Sheng Hsieh, Michael D. König, and Xiadong Liu
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper 2020-030A, September 2020
“Superstar Economists: Coauthorship Networks and Research Output” (PDF)
with Chih-Sheng Hsieh, Michael D. König, and Xiadong Liu
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper 2018-028A, October 2018
“On the Need for a Replication Journal” (PDF)
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper 2015-016A, August 2015
“The Experience of the RePEc Plagiarism Committee in Economics” (PDF)
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper 2015-008A, April 2015
“Universal Basic Income versus Unemployment Insurance” (PDF)
with Alice Fabre and Stéphane Pallage
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper 2014-047A, November 2014
“Loan Regulation and Child Labor in Rural India” (PDF)
with Basab Dasgupta
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper 2012-027A, August 2012
“Basel Accord and Financial Intermediation: The Impact of Policy” (PDF)
with Martin Berka
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper 2011-042A, December 2011
Christian Zimmermann is assistant vice president of research information services in the Research division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, which he joined in May 2011. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in economics from Carnegie Mellon University in 1994 and 1992, respectively.
Zimmermann has published in Journal of Monetary Economics, International Economic Review, European Economic Review, Political Analysis, Journal of Population Economics, and other outlets. He has been associate editor of the Review of Economic Dynamics since 1999. Before joining the St. Louis Fed, he worked at the Université du Québec à Montréal, Bank of Canada, and University of Connecticut.
