Julie Smith

Julie K. Smith is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Lafayette College, where she has been teaching since 2005. She specializes in macroeconomic courses with a focus on monetary policy and applied microeconomics in health and labor fields.

• Teaches courses: Money & Banking, Intermediate Macroeconomics, Money/Financial Intermediation, Macroeconometrics, Advanced Monetary Policy
• Affiliated with H.O. Stekler Research Program on Forecasting (George Washington University)
• Active participant in Financial Times/IGM US Macroeconomist Survey and Shadow Open Market Participant Survey

Her research has been published in journals such as Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of Macroeconomics, and Health Economics. She serves as associate editor of Eastern Economic Journal and provides economic commentary for Marketplace (American Public Media). Smith also helped organize the College Fed Challenge competition for the Philadelphia Federal Reserve District.