Emi Nakamura

Professor of Business at Columbia Business School

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Biography

Professor Nakamura joined Columbia Business School in 2008. Before coming to Columbia Business School, Professor Nakamura received an A.B. in Economics from Princeton and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard. Professor Nakamura then spent several months as a junior research fellow at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Professor Nakamura's research focuses on issues in empirical macroeconomics, international economics, and industrial organization. Professor Nakamura is also a member of the economics department in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and a Faculty Research Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Teaching

Fall 2016

Global Economic Environment (MBA)

Fall 2014

Global Economic Environment (MBA)

Fall 2013

Global Economic Environment (MBA)

Spring 2012

Global Economic Environment II: Business Cycles and Financial Markets (MBA)

Columbia Caseworks cases

Lehman Brothers: Too Big to Fail? (2016)
Coauthor(s): Emi Nakamura, Pierre Yared, Jack Lysohir

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Research

Journal articles

Are Chinese Growth and Inflation Too Smooth? Evidence from Engel Curves In American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (forthcoming)
Coauthor(s): Miao Liu, Emi Nakamura, Jón Steinsson

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The Power of Forward Guidance Revisited In American Economic Review (forthcoming)
Coauthor(s): Alisdair McKay, Emi Nakamura, Jón Steinsson

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Fiscal Stimulus in a Monetary Union: Evidence from U.S. Regions In American Economic Review (2014)
Coauthor(s): Emi Nakamura, Jón Steinsson

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Crises and Recoveries in an Empirical Model of Consumption Disasters In American Economic Review: Macroeconomics (2013)
Coauthor(s): Robert Barro, Emi Nakamura, Jón Steinsson, José Ursúa

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Price Rigidity: Microeconomic Evidence and Macroeconomic Implications In Annual Reviews of Economics (2013)
Coauthor(s): Emi Nakamura, Jón Steinsson

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Lost in Transit: Product Replacement Bias and Pricing to Market In American Economic Review (2012)
Coauthor(s): Emi Nakamura, Jón Steinsson

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Price Setting in Forward-Looking Customer Markets In Journal of Monetary Economics (2011)
Coauthor(s): Emi Nakamura, Jón Steinsson

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Price Dynamics, Retail Chains and Inflation Measurement In Journal of Econometrics (2011)
Coauthor(s): Alice Nakamura, Emi Nakamura, Leonard I. Nakamura

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Accounting for Incomplete Pass-Through In Review of Economic Studies (2010)
Coauthor(s): Emi Nakamura, Dawit Zerom

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Deconstructing the Success of Real Business Cycles In Economic Inquiry (2009)
Coauthor(s): Emi Nakamura

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Monetary Non-Neutrality in a Multi-Sector Menu Cost Model In Quarterly Journal of Economics (2009)
Coauthor(s): Emi Nakamura, Jón Steinsson

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Five Facts About Prices: A Reevaluation of Menu Cost Models In Quarterly Journal of Economics (2008)
Coauthor(s): Emi Nakamura, Jón Steinsson

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Layoffs and Lemons over the Business Cycle In Economics Letters (2008)
Coauthor(s): Emi Nakamura

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Pass-Through in Retail and Wholesale In American Economic Review (2008)
Coauthor(s): Emi Nakamura

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Inflation Forecasting Using a Neural Network In Economics Letters (2005)
Coauthor(s): Emi Nakamura

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Working papers

The Elusive Costs of Inflation: Price Dispersion during the U.S. Great Inflation (2016)
Coauthor(s): Emi Nakamura, Jón Steinsson, Patrick Sun, Daniel Villar

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High Frequency Identification of Monetary Non-Neutrality (2015)
Coauthor(s): Emi Nakamura, Jón Steinsson

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Growth-Rate and Uncertainty Shocks in Consumption: Cross-Country Evidence (2015)
Coauthor(s): Emi Nakamura, Dmitriy Sergeyev, Jón Steinsson

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Informational Rigidities and the Stickiness of Temporary Sales (2015)
Coauthor(s): Eric Anderson, Benjamin Malin, Emi Nakamura, Duncan Simester, Jón Steinsson

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