Articles or comments in peer reviewed journals, per Google Scholar:
- Price beliefs and experience: Do consumers’ beliefs converge to empirical distributions with repeated purchases? , B Matsumoto, F Spence, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 126, 243-254 (2016)
- Family ruptures, stress, and the mental health of the next generation: Comment, B Matsumoto, American economic review 108 (4-5), 1253-1255 (2018)
- Building a consumption poverty measure: Initial results following recommendations of a federal interagency working group, G Armstrong, C Cho, TI Garner, B Matsumoto, J Munoz, J Schild (2018)
- AEA Papers and Proceedings 112, 335-339 (2022)Detecting potential overbilling in Medicare reimbursement via hours worked: comment, B Matsumoto, American Economic Review 110 (12), 3991-4003 (2020)
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A distributional approach to US personal consumption expenditures: an overview
TI Garner, R Martin, B Matsumoto, S Curtin, Business Economics 59 (3), 166-173 (2024)
He also has 2 Chapters in edited books:
- Measuring prices and real household consumption of medical goods: service-based versus disease-based approaches, R Bradley, B Matsumoto, Handbook of US consumer economics, 355-388 (2019)
- Measurement issues, B Matsumoto, A Stockburger, Research Handbook on Inflation, 22-34 (2025)
UNC Ph.D. dissertation here:
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Estimating models of learning in individual decision making with an application to youth smoking, B Matsumoto, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2015)
In addition he has five Monthly Labor Review articles. While that journal is in-house, it is (like typical agency articles) internally reviewed; it is also widely respected and cited.
One can compare this to the previous nominee’s record, as discussed here, here, and here.
His BLS webpage; NYT article on this topic.
Promotion from the ranks. Excellent.
This is a bit like the Warsh nomination. Hassett and Antoni were both shouted down in the Senate, and better qualified candidates were then put forward. More of this, please.
Macroduck: I see the parallel, but I think Warsh is only minimally better than Hassett, insofar as Warsh’s writings don’t make sense to me, and seems pretty malleable.
Yep, but on paper, Warsh is a real central banker. Senators are maki g demands, and getting what they demand.
And, by the way, Krugman agrees with you:
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/a-bad-heir-day-at-the-fed
Warsh is a political insider’s idea of a cental banker. Not so much a policy insider’s idea of a central banker. Hassett is neither a politician’s nor a policy insider’s idea of a central banker.