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Full-time Faculty
Tara M. Sinclair
Assistant Professor of Economics and International Affairs
Monroe 314
2115 G Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20052
Phone: (202) 994-7988
Fax: (202) 994-6147
E-mail: tsinc@gwu.edu
Homepage: http://home.gwu.edu/~tsinc
Education:
Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis
Expertise:
Macroeconomics, Econometrics
Background:
Tara Sinclair earned a B.A. in Foreign Languages from Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from Washington University in St. Louis. Before starting graduate school, she worked as a commercial real estate appraiser in Chicago. She was also a visiting scholar at the St. Louis Federal Reserve.
Her research interests focus on modeling, explaining, and forecasting business cycle fluctuations and economic growth for different countries. She has two forthcoming articles: "The Relationships between Permanent and Transitory Movements in U.S. Output and the Unemployment Rate," Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, and "Directional Forecasts of GDP and Inflation: A Joint Evaluation with an Application to Federal Reserve Predictions," with H.O. Stekler and Lindsay Kitzinger, Applied Economics. She contributes regularly to the Survey of Professional Forecasters and is also co-director of the GWU Research Program on Forecasting. She teaches undergraduate courses in macroeconomics and econometrics.
Courses Taught:
Econ 102 Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory
Econ 123 Introduction to Econometrics
Econ 379 Graduate Laboratory in Applied Econometrics - Macroeconomics
Last update: 3/16/2009