Boragan Aruoba

Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
Tel: 301-405-3508
Email: aruoba@econ.umd.edu

Boragan Aruoba, Assistant Professor, received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2004. He joined the faculty at Maryland the same year. His research interests are in macroeconomics, monetary economics, econometrics and computational methods in economics. His recent research focuses on integrating monetary models with micro-foundations and mainstream macroeconomic models, optimal fiscal and monetary policy, macroeconomic data uncertainty, term structure of interest rates and comparing linear and nonlinear solution methods. His recent publications include "Search, Money and Capital: A Neoclassical Dichotomy" Journal of Money Credit and Banking, 2003 (with R.D. Wright); "The Macroeconomy and Yield Curve: A Dynamic Latent Factor Approach" Journal of Econometrics, 2006 (with F.X. Diebold and G.D. Rudebusch) and "Comparing Solution Methods for Dynamic Equilibrium Economies" Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2006 (with J. Fernandez-Villaverde and J.F. Rubio-Ramirez). He teaches courses in undergraduate and graduate macroeconomics.