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Author:Çakır Melek, Nida 

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The Future of U.S. Productivity: Cautious Optimism amid Uncertainty

Recent productivity growth likely reflects both cyclical and structural factors, including remote work and AI.
Economic Review

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Evaluating a Year of Oil Price Volatility

Troy Davig, Nida Cakir Melek, Jun Nie, Lee Smith, and Didem Tuzemen find changes in expectations of future oil supply relative to demand are the main drivers of the recent oil price decline.
Economic Review , Issue Q III , Pages 5-30

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The Role of Technology and Energy Substitution in Climate Change Mitigation

Mitigating climate change is critically linked to reducing an economy’s reliance on fossil energy. This paper examines U.S. energy dependence, measured by its factor share, using a neoclassical framework in a systematic way. We propose substitution as a simple, explicit economic mechanism for climate change mitigation and understanding energy-saving technical change in terms of observed factor quantities. We show that with time-varying capital equipment and energy substitutability, changes in observed inputs alone can account for most of the variations in the income share of energy over the ...
Research Working Paper , Paper RWP 23-15

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Powering Up: The Surging Demand for Electricity

After years of stagnant growth, U.S. electricity demand recently surged. This increase was driven in part bythe commercial sector, particularly the rapid expansion of data centers and the adoption of artificialintelligence. The surge is expected to continue, signaling a shift toward a more electrified economy, withsignificant implications for economic competitiveness and energy infrastructure.
Economic Bulletin

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Getting crude to market: central U.S. oil transportation challenges

Main Street Economist , Issue 1 , Pages 1-7

Working Paper
The Missing Tail Risk in Option Prices

This paper contributes to the literature on deviations from rational expectations in financial markets and to the literature on evaluating density forecasts. We first develop a novel statistic to evaluate the overall accuracy of distributional forecasts, and find two methods that yield accurate distributional forecasts. We then propose another statistic to examine the relative accuracy over the entire distribution range. Our results indicate more oil price realizations in the left tail than predicted. We argue that this finding points to a persistent behavioral forecasting bias and a ...
Research Working Paper , Paper RWP 23-02

Working Paper
Measuring the Spectrum of Occupational Emissions

Understanding how occupations differ in their exposure to emissions-intensive activities is fundamental for analyzing labor market risks amid changes in the energy mix. We develop new, data-driven measures of occupational emissions intensity that capture heterogeneity across and within industries. Our baseline Occupational Emissions Score (OES), along with wage- and concentration-adjusted variations (WOES and COES), highlights substantial differences in emissions exposure across the U.S. workforce. Applying these measures, we document several new facts: emissions are highly concentrated in a ...
Research Working Paper , Paper RWP 25-05

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