Jane Ryngaert

Jane Ryngaert is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Notre Dame, affiliated with the Department of Economics. Her research focuses on macroeconomic expectations, particularly inflation expectations and their implications for monetary policy, labor markets, and consumer behavior. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin (2018), an M.S. from the same institution (2015), and a B.A. from the College of William and Mary (2013).

Her key research areas include understanding how inflation expectations are formed, how they respond to monetary policy interventions, and their effects on firm and consumer decision-making. Notable contributions address partisan divides in inflation expectations during the pandemic, the role of higher-order beliefs among managers, and the impact of inflation expectations on labor market dynamics such as job search behavior and wage adjustments. She employs novel survey methodologies and structural models to analyze these phenomena.

Ryngaert’s work has been published in top journals like the Quarterly Journal of Economics and Journal of Monetary Economics. Her teaching includes advanced macroeconomic theory and specialized courses on macroeconomic expectations. She actively contributes to the field through collaborative research with scholars like Olivier Coibion and Carola Binder, exploring topics such as information frictions among forecasters and the macroeconomic consequences of inflation disasters.