Ryan R. Brady

 

Department of Economics

US Naval Academy

589 McNair Rd

Annapolis, MD 21402

410-293-6883

rbrady@usna.edu

 

Curriculum Vitae

                                                                          

 

 

Appointments

Associate Professor, USNA

2010 - present

Assistant Professor, USNA

2006 - 2010

Visiting Assistant Professor, USNA

2005 - 2006

 

Education

The University of California, Davis,

PhD (2005), Economics.

 

The University of California, Davis,

M.A. (2001), Economics

 

Western Washington University,

B.A. (1999), Economics.

 

Research and Teaching Interests

Monetary Economics, Credit and Financial Markets, Housing Markets, Consumption, Applied Econometrics

 

 

Published Papers*

 

Aysun, Uluc, Brady, Ryan R, and Adam Honig (2013) “Financial Frictions and the Strength of Monetary TransmissionJournal of International Money and Finance, 32 (February), 1097-1119.

 

 

Brady, RR and Stimel, DS (2011) “How the Housing and Financial Wealth Effects Have Changed over Time,” The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics: Vol. 11: Iss. 1 (Topics), Article 28. 

 

 

Brady, RR (2011) “Measuring the diffusion of housing prices across space and over time,” Journal of Applied Econometrics, 26, 2 (March), 213-231.

 

 

Brady, RR (2011) “Consumer Credit, Liquidity, and the Transmission Mechanism of Monetary Policy,”

Economic Inquiry, 49, 1 (January), 246-263.

 

 

Brady, RR, and VA Greenfield (2010) “Competing Explanations of U.S. Defense Industry Consolidation in the 1990s and Their Policy Implications,” Contemporary Economic Policy, 28, 2 (April), 288-306.

 

 

Brady, RR (2008) “Structural Breaks and Consumer Credit: Is Consumption Smoothing finally a Reality?Journal of Macroeconomics, 30, 1246-1268.  

 

*Click here for data, programs and Appendices supporting these papers.

 

 

 

Current Research

 

(i)   The Spatial Diffusion of Regional Housing Prices across U.S. States 

        Working Paper and associated Appendix

 

(ii)  “A Time Series Test of the Direct Wealth Effect” (with Derek Stimel and Steven Sumner) 

       Working Paper

     

(iii) “Debt Contagion in Europe: A Panel-VAR Analysis” (with Florence Bouvet and Sharmila King)

        Working Paper

 

(iv) “Price Asymmetries in the Midwest U.S. Gasoline Supply Chain” (with Philip B. Thompson and Gary

        Peng-Liang Tan) preliminary paper in progress

 

(v) “A Time-Series Analysis of the Effect of Shocks to the U.S. Economy on Defense Spending”   

       preliminary paper in progress

 

 

Work in various stages of progress

(i) “Credit Unions, Commercial Banks, and Finance Companies: Regulation and Consumer Lending over

      time” (with Derek Stimel)

 

(ii)  “The frequency and intensity of cyber-attacks over space and time” (with Darrell J. Glaser). (Abstract)

 

(iii) “Factors Influencing the Scope and Duration of Cyber-Attacks” (co-authored with Darrell J. Glaser). 

      (Abstract)

 

(vii) “Credit Card Liquidity” Abstract (Working paper available upon request)

 

 

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Updated May 2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Appendices, Data, Working Papers and related Materials

 

1.  “How the Housing and Financial Wealth Effects have changed over Time,” (with Derek Stimel)

 

See here for the USNA Working paper #2011-31; and here for the appendix to the working paper.  The published version has more detailed discussion on the break test results (and their context with respect to recent economic history). 

 

See here for the updated appendix for the published version of the paper. 

 

 

2. “Measuring the diffusion of housing prices across space and over time.”

 

The 2008 working paper version can be found here.  Note, an older (rough) version circulated under a different title: “Measuring the persistence of spatial autocorrelation: How long does the spatial connection between housing markets last?”

 

Data Files Contains excel files of “raw” data and text files and programs used with Gauss to sort and transform the data. 

 

A Matlab m-file providing a step-by-step guide to estimate the spatial IRFs can be downloaded here.

 

 

3.  “Consumer Credit, Liquidity, and the Transmission Mechanism of Monetary Policy”

 

2008 Working Paper version can be found here.  This version includes quarterly data. 

 

A series of robustness checks are provided here (referenced in both versions). 

 

 

4.  “Competing Explanations of U.S. Defense Industry Consolidation in the 1990s and Their Policy Implications”

 

Click here for the earlier working paper version.

 

 

5.  “Financial Frictions and the Strength of Monetary Transmission”

 

Click here for an earlier working paper version.

 

 

 

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