Emi Nakamura

Emi Nakamura's distinctive approach to empirical macroeconomics is notable for its creativity in suggesting new sources of data to address long-standing questions in macroeconomics --- often more disaggregated, or higher-frequency, or extending over a longer historical period, than the postwar, quarterly, aggregate time series that have been the basis for most prior work on these topics. Her work has required painstaking analysis of data sources not previously exploited, and at the same time displays a sophisticated understanding of the alternative theoretical models that the data can be used to distinguish.