Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Financial Economist and Adviser Nikolay Gospodinov

Nikolay Gospodinov

Financial Economist and Senior Adviser
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  • Biography

    Nikolay Gospodinov is a financial economist and senior adviser on the financial markets team in the research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. His research interests include asset pricing, time series and financial econometrics, and forecasting.

    Before joining the Atlanta Fed in 2013, Dr. Gospodinov was a professor, associate professor, and assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada) from 2000 to 2013. He was also a visiting professor at Emory University, McGill University, and University of Montreal.

    Dr. Gospodinov has published research in a variety of peer-reviewed journals, including Econometrica, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Econometrics, Review of Economics and Statistics, and Journal of Business and Economic Statistics. He is also coauthor of the book Methods for Estimation and Inference in Modern Econometrics with Stanislav Anatolyev.

    Dr. Gospodinov is an associate editor for the Econometric Reviews and a referee for a number of other journals, including Journal of Finance, Econometrica, Review of Financial Studies, Econometric Theory, and the Journal of Applied Econometrics. He has also refereed for the National Science Foundation. He has received research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Société et la Culture, and the Institute of Financial Mathematics.

    Dr. Gospodinov received his bachelor of arts and master of arts in economics from the University of National and World Economy (Sofia, Bulgaria). He earned his doctoral degree in economics from Boston College in Massachusetts.

  • Working Papers

    Atlanta Fed Working Papers

    2017-11
    Asset Co-movements: Features and Challenges
    Nikolay Gospodinov
    November 2017
    Abstract | Full text Adobe PDF file format (1,427 KB)

    2017-10
    General Aggregation of Misspecified Asset Pricing Models
    Nikolay Gospodinov and Esfandiar Maasoumi
    November 2017
    Abstract | Full text Adobe PDF file format (321 KB)

    2017-9
    Too Good to Be True? Fallacies in Evaluating Risk Factor Models
    Nikolay Gospodinov, Raymond Kan, and Cesare Robotti
    November 2017
    Abstract | Full text Adobe PDF file format (803 KB)

    2016-5
    The Role of Commodity Prices in Forecasting U.S. Core Inflation
    Nikolay Gospodinov
    February 2016
    Abstract | Full text Adobe PDF file format (187 KB)

    2016-3
    Forecasts of Inflation and Interest Rates in No-Arbitrage Affine Models
    Nikolay Gospodinov and Bin Wei
    (Revised) March 2016
    Abstract | Full text Adobe PDF file format (418 KB)

    2015-9
    Asymptotic Variance Approximations for Invariant Estimators in Uncertain Asset-Pricing Models
    Nikolay Gospodinov, Raymond Kan, and Cesare Robotti
    October 2015
    Abstract | Full text Adobe PDF file format (307 KB)

    2015-7
    Multivariate Return Decomposition: Theory and Implications
    Stanislav Anatolyev and Nikolay Gospodinov
    August 2015
    Abstract | Full text Adobe PDF file format (288 KB)

    2015-6
    Foreign Exchange Predictability during the Financial Crisis: Implications for Carry Trade Profitability
    Stanislav Anatolyev, Nikolay Gospodinov, Ibrahim Jamali, and Xiaochun Liu
    August 2015
    Abstract | Full text Adobe PDF file format (277 KB)

    2014-14
    The Response of Stock Market Volatility to Futures-Based Measures of Monetary Policy Shocks
    Hirbod Assa and Nikolay Gospodinov
    August 2014
    Abstract | Full text Adobe PDF file format (339 KB)

    2014-13
    Hedging and Pricing in Imperfect Markets under Non-Convexity
    Hirbod Assa and Nikolay Gospodinov
    August 2014
    Abstract | Full text Adobe PDF file format (279 KB)

    2014-12
    Spurious Inference in Unidentified Asset-Pricing Models
    Nikolay Gospodinov, Raymond Kan, and Cesare Robotti
    August 2014
    Abstract | Full text Adobe PDF file format (499 KB)

    2014-11
    Minimum Distance Estimation of Dynamic Models with Errors-In-Variables
    Nikolay Gospodinov, Ivana Komunjer, and Serena Ng
    August 2014
    Abstract | Full text Adobe PDF file format (494 KB)

    2013-12
    Monetary Policy Surprises, Positions of Traders, and Changes in Commodity Futures Prices
    Nikolay Gospodinov and Ibrahim Jamali
    November 2013
    Abstract | Full text Adobe PDF file format (728 KB)

    2013-11
    Minimum Distance Estimation of Possibly Non-Invertible Moving Average Models
    Nikolay Gospodinov and Serena Ng
    November 2013
    Abstract | Full text Adobe PDF file format (665 KB)

    2013-9
    Misspecification-Robust Inference in Linear Asset Pricing Models with Irrelevant Risk Factors
    Nikolay Gospodinov, Raymond Kan, and Cesare Robotti
    October 2013
    Abstract | Full text Adobe PDF file format (667 KB)

    2013-8
    A Staggered Pricing Approach to Modeling Speculative Storage: Implications for Commodity Price Dynamics
    Hirbod Assa, Amal Dabbous, and Nikolay Gospodinov
    September 2013
    Abstract | Full text Adobe PDF file format (353 KB)

    2013-5
    A Moment-Matching Method for Approximating Vector Autoregressive Processes by Finite-State Markov Chains
    Hirbod Assa, Amal Dabbous, and Nikolay Gospodinov
    September 2013
    Abstract | Full text Adobe PDF file format (6.48 MB) | Appendix Adobe PDF file format (154 KB)

    Staff ReportsOff-site link

    Federal Reserve Bank of New York
    № 884
    Deconstructing the Yield Curve
    Richard Crump and Nikolay Gospodinov
    April 2019
    Abstract | Full text Adobe PDF file format

  • Other Fed Work

    Blog Posts

    2021

    Nikolay Gospodinov. "Is There a Global Factor in U.S. Bond Yields?." Policy Hub: Macroblog. May 3, 2021.

    Richard K. Crump, Nikolay Gospodinov, and Desi Volker. "The Persistent Compression of the Breakeven Inflation CurveOff-site link," Liberty Street Economics. March 22, 2021.

    2016

    Nikolay Gospodinov, Paula Tkac, and Bin Wei. "Are Long-Term Inflation Expectations Declining? Not So Fast, Says Atlanta Fed," macroblog. January 15, 2016.

    Articles

    2019

    Nikolay Gospodinov and Ibrahim Jamali. "Carry Factors: Characteristics and Informational Content." Notes from the Vault (2019 March).

    2018

    Nikolay Gospodinov. "Good Models, Bad Models." Notes from the Vault (2018 January).

    2017

    Nikolay Gospodinov. "Risk-On/Risk-Off in the Long Run." Notes from the Vault (2017 November).

  • Publications

    Selected Recent Articles

    "On the Factor Structure of Bond Returns" (with R. K. Crump), forthcoming in Econometrica.

    "Capital Share Risk in U.S. Asset Pricing: A Reappraisal" (with C. Robotti), Journal of Finance, Replications and Comments (2021).

    "Common Pricing across Asset Classes: Empirical Evidence Revisited" (with C. Robotti), Journal of Financial Economics 140, no. 1 (2021): 292–324.

    "Generalized Aggregation of Misspecified Models: With an Application to Asset Pricing" (with E. Maasoumi), Journal of Econometrics 222, no. 1 (2021): 451–467.

    "Too Good to be True? Fallacies in Evaluating Risk Factor Models" (with R. Kan and C. Robotti), Journal of Financial Economics 132, no. 2 (2019): 451–471.

    "Spurious Inference in Reduced-Rank Asset-Pricing Models" (with R. Kan and C. Robotti), Econometrica 85, no. 5 (2017): 1613–1628.

    "Simulated Minimum Distance Estimation of Dynamic Models with Errors-In-Variables" (with I. Komunjer and S. Ng), Journal of Econometrics 200, no. 2 (2017): 181–193.

    "Misspecification-Robust Inference in Linear Asset-Pricing Models with Irrelevant Risk Factors" (with R. Kan and C. Robotti). Review of Financial Studies 27, no. 7 (2014): 2139–70.

    "A Moment-Matching Method for Approximating Vector Autoregressive Processes by Finite-State Markov Chains" (with D. Lkhagvasuren). Journal of Applied Econometrics 29, no. 5 (2014): 843–59.

    "Commodity Prices, Convenience Yields, and Inflation" (with S. Ng). Review of Economics and Statistics 95, no. 1 (2013): 206–19.

    "Chi-Squared Tests for Evaluation and Comparison of Asset Pricing Models" (with R. Kan and C. Robotti). Journal of Econometrics 173, no. 1 (2013): 108–25.

    "Local GMM Estimation of Time Series Models with Conditional Moment Restrictions" (with T. Otsu). Journal of Econometrics 170, no. 2 (2012): 476–90.

    "Specification Testing in Models with Many Instruments" (with S. Anatolyev). Econometric Theory 27, no. 2 (2011): 427–41.

    "Inference in Nearly Nonstationary SVAR Models with Long-Run Identifying Restrictions," Journal of Business and Economic Statistics 28, no. 1 (2010): 1–12.

    Books

    Methods for Estimation and Inference in Modern Econometrics (with S. Anatolyev). Chapman and Hall/CRC Press, 2011.