Benjamin Keen University of Okalhoma ben.keen@ou.edu http://benjaminkeen.oucreate.com/ Biographical Sketch: Dr. Keen is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Oklahoma. His research involves building dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models to analyze the theoretical effects of macroeconomic issues such as price and wage setting, imperfect information on monetary policy, forward guidance, the zero lower bound on nominal interest rates, disaster shocks, and energy price shocks. Primary Research Focus : Monetary Theory, Macroeconomics, and Applied Times Series Econometrics JEL Areas : E3:Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles: General (includes Measurement and Data) E6:Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General