John V. Duca

Danforth-Lewis Professor of Economics John Duca remotely presented "What Drives House Prices: Lessons from the Literature," to the Federal Housing Finance Agency on December 1. Duca also remotely presented the paper, "How New Fed Corporate Bond Programs Cushioned the Covid-19 Recession," at the World Banking and Finance Symposium on December 17.

Danforth-Lewis Professor of Economics John Duca has published "What Drives House Price Cycles: International Experience and Policy Issues," in the Journal of Economic Literature, and "What Drives House Prices: Lessons from the Literature," as a short and accessible article in VoXEU. Also accepted for publication by the Journal of Government and Economics is the article, "An Overview of The Fed’s New Credit Policy Tools and Their Cushioning Effect on the COVID-19 Recession."

Danforth-Lewis Professor of Economics John Duca presented "How New Fed Corporate Bond Programs Cushioned the Covid-19 Recession" at the virtual IFABS 2021 Oxford Conference, September 13-15, 2021.

Danforth-Lewis Professor of Economics John Duca (virtually) presented two studies at the Annual Conference of the French Finance Association in May 2021 which analyzed the effectiveness of Federal Reserve efforts to stabilize the corporate and municipal bond markets during the COVID-19 Recession. One of these appeared as NBER Working Paper 28097 in November 2020 and the other as NBER Working Paper 28437 in February 2021. 

Earlier this year, Applied Economics Letters electronically published a paper that Duca coauthored with Jason Saving, “Media fragmentation and the polarization of the American public.” Together with European coauthors Martin Hoesli and Joaquim Montezuma, Duca also published a timely paper in the Journal of European Real Estate Research, “The Resilience and Realignment of House Prices in the Era of COVID-19.”

John V. Duca, Danforth-Lewis Professor of Economics, and Aaron Kreiner '19 had their joint paper published, "Can Machine Learning on Economic Data Better Forecast the Unemployment Rate?" in Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 27, Issue 17, 1434-37.

Danforth-Lewis Professor of Economics John Duca's paper “What Drives House Price Cycles? International Experience and Policy Issues,” was accepted by the Journal of Economic Literature: It ws co-authored with John Muellbauer and Anthony Murphy.

Danforth-Lewis Professor of Economics John Duca presented a financial stability paper, “The Double Real Estate Bubble of the Mid-2000s and the Great Recession: How a Retreat from Reasonable Regulation Led to a Minsky Moment” at the conference Minsky at 100: Revisiting Financial Instability honoring the 100th birthday of Hyman Minsky, held Dec. 16-17, 2019, at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, Italy. Duca also chaired a conference session.