NBER profile: Valerie Ramey.

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Valerie Ramey is a Research Associate in the NBER's Program on Economic Fluctuations and Growth and the Program on Monetary Economics. She is also a professor in the Economics Department at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and is Chair of the Institute for Applied Economics there.

Ramey received a B.A. in Economics and Spanish from the University of Arizona in 1981 and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1987. She joined the UCSD faculty in that year.

Her research has addressed such topics as the behavior of inventories, volatility and growth, the effects of government spending, the source of business cycle fluctuations, wage inequality, and time use. She is past macroeconomics co-editor of the American...