Rate My Professor K Shields

Key publications include 'Shock persistence, uncertainty, and news-driven business cycles' (Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2024, with Kevin Lee and Guido Turnip), 'Better understanding how uncertainty impacts the economy: Insights from internet search data on the importance of disaggregation' (Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2022, with Trung Duc Tran), 'Recovery from economic disasters' (Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2023, with Kevin Lee and Guido Turnip), 'Panel data nowcasting' (Econometric Reviews, 2022, with Domenico Giannone and others), 'Macroeconomic Shocks, Job Security, and Health: Evidence from British Panel Data' (Journal of Labor Economics, 2021, with Katharina Janke, Kevin Lee, Carol Propper, and Michael A. Shields), 'The Australian Real-Time Database: An Overview and an Illustration of its Use in Business Cycle Analysis' (with Kevin Lee, Nilss Olekalns, and Zheng Wang), and 'Making Fiscal Adjustments Using Event Probability Forecasts'. Earlier contributions encompass 'The Characteristics of Macroeconomic Shocks in the CFA Franc Zone' (Journal of African Economies, with David Fielding and Kevin Lee) and 'Overcoming Measurement Error Problems in the Use of Survey Data on Expectations' (Economic Record, 2007). Shields has taught courses including Quantitative Methods 1 (ECON10005) and Economics of Financial Markets. She has held the role of Assistant Dean (Graduate Research) in the Faculty of Business and Economics.