Egon Zakrajšek is an Executive Vice President and the Director of the Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. His research interests focus on macro-finance, banking, inflation dynamics, and monetary policy. His research has been published in a variety of academic journals, including the American Economic Review, Journal of Monetary Economics, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. Previously, Zakrajšek was a senior advisor in the Monetary and Economic Department of the Bank for International Settlements. He began his career in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and later joined the division of Monetary Affairs at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. He holds a PhD in economics from New York University.
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High markups reduce pass-through of cost-push shocks, but only when the shocks are disinflationary
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- Inflation
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Money growth and the post-pandemic inflation surge: Updating the evidence
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- Monetary Policy
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Global financial risk factors and sovereign risk
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- Financial Markets
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Looking under the hood: The two faces of inflation
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- Monetary Policy