Economist
Research Department
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
1 Memorial Drive
Kansas City, MO 64198
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Curriculum Vitae

Andrew Foerster is an Economist in the Economic Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, a position he has held since July 2011. Prior to joining the department, Mr. Foerster received a Ph.D. and M.A. in economics from Duke University. He also holds a M.S. in Mathematical Sciences from Virginia Commonwealth University and a B.A. in economics from Davidson College. Mr. Foerster worked as an Assistant Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond from 2004-2006. His main areas of research are macroeconomics, econometrics and computational economics.

• "Sectoral versus Aggregate Shocks: A Structural Factor Analysis of Industrial Production" with Pierre-Daniel Sarte and Mark Watson, Journal of Political Economy 119, February 2011.

• "Estimating VAR's Sampled at Mixed or Irregular Spaced Frequencies: A Bayesian Approach"
  with Ching Wai (Jeremy) Chiu, Bjørn Eraker, Tae Bong Kim and Hernán D. Seoane, RWP 11-11
• "Financial Crises, Unconventional Monetary Policy Exit Strategies, and Agents' Expectations"
  RWP 11-04