Economics
Brian Dombeck
Assistant Professor of Economics
Brian joined the economics department in 2017 after receiving his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Oregon. He is a macroeconomist and specializes in examining the role assumptions regarding expectations and information play in explaining macroeconomic fluctuations through the lens of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models (DSGE). His dissertation focused on the theoretic, qualitative, and quantitative impact interaction between news shocks and bounded rationality could have in real business cycle (RBC) type models.
He is currently exploring the frontiers of quantitative model evaluation under bounded rationality in workhorse structural macroeconomic models as well as expectations-related explanations for the purchasing power parity puzzle of International Finance.
Specialty
Applied Structural Macroeconomics; Information and Expectations; Bounded Rationality; Bayesian macroeconometricsTeaching
ECON 100: Principles of Economics
ECON 302: Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory
ECON 314: International Finance
Professional Experience
- 2017 - present: Assistant Professor, Lewis & Clark College, Department of Economics
- 2012-2017: Graduate Teaching Fellow, University of Oregon, Department of Economics
Research
Working Papers
- “Learning vs News: What Drives Business Cycles?” [PDF]
- “On the Expectational Stability of Rational Expectations Equilibria in News-shock DSGE Models” [PDF]
- “Learning to Optimize with News Shocks” [PDF]
Academic Credentials
Ph.D. Economics, University of Oregon, 2016
M.S. Economics, University of Oregon, 2013
B.S. Economics, Louisiana State University, 2012
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Contact
Brian Dombeck’s office is located in room 327 of John R. Howard.
email bdombeck@lclark.edu
voice 503-768-7643
Brian Dombeck Assistant Professor of Economics
Economics Lewis & Clark 0615 S.W. Palatine Hill Road MSC 40 Portland OR 97219 USA