Marketa Halova Wolfe
Professor
Email: mwolfe@skidmore.edu
Tel: 518-580-8374
Office location: Filene 221
Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
- Ph.D. in economics, Boston College, 2012
- M.A. in economics, Boston College, 2009
- M.B.A., Baylor University, 1998
- B.A. in sociology, Masaryk University, 1995
RESEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTS
- Macroeconomics and monetary economics
- International macroeconomics and finance
- Financial economics
- Energy economics and commodities
- Economics Instruction
COURSES
- Introduction to Macroeconomics (EC 103)
- Macroeconomic Theory (EC 235)
- Advanced Macroeconomic Theory and Policy (EC 335)
- Monetary Theory and Policy (EC 345)
- Economics of COVID-19 (EC 151, ID 251)
- Applied Econometrics (EC 339)
- Pre-Capstone Seminar in Economics (EC 374)
- Senior Seminar in Economics (EC 375)
- SSP100 Money Matters (First-Year Experience)
PUBLISHED PAPERS
- Halova, Marketa W., Alexander Kurov and Oleg Kucher (2014). Noisy Inventory Announcements and Energy Prices. Journal of Futures Markets, 34, 911-933.
- Wolfe, Marketa Halova and Robert Rosenman (2014). Bidirectional Causality in Oil and Gas Markets. Energy Economics, 42, 325-331.
- Strasser, Georg and Marketa Halova Wolfe (2014). Learning to Argue with Intermediate Macro Theory. The Journal of Economic Education, 45, 191-210.
- Baum, Christopher F., Alexander Kurov and Marketa Halova Wolfe (2015). What Do Chinese Macro Announcements Tell Us about the World Economy? Journal of International Money and Finance, 59, 100-122.
- Gu, Chen, Alexander Kurov and Marketa Halova Wolfe (2018). Relief Rallies after FOMC Announcements as a Resolution of Uncertainty. Journal of Empirical Finance, 49, 1-18 (Lead Article).
- Ge, Qi, Alexander Kurov and Marketa Halova Wolfe (2019). Do Investors Care about Presidential Company-Specific Tweets? Journal of Financial Research, Summer, 1-30 (Lead Article).
- Kurov, Alexander, Alessio Sancetta, Georg Strasser and Marketa Halova Wolfe (2019). Price Drift before U.S. Macroeconomic News: Private Information about Public Announcements? Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 54, 449-479. Previously, European Central Bank Working Paper No. 1901. Online Appendix.
- Basistha, Arabinda, Alexander Kurov and Marketa Halova Wolfe (2019). Volatility Forecasting: The Role of Internet Search Activity and Implied Volatility. Journal of Risk Model Validation, 14, 35-63.
- Wolfe, Marketa Halova (2020). Integrating Data Analysis into an Introductory Macroeconomics Course. International Review of Economics Education, 33, 100176.
- Kurov, Alexander, Marketa Halova Wolfe and Thomas Gilbert (2020) The Disappearing Pre-FOMC Announcement Drift. Finance Research Letters, 40, 101781.
- Kurov, Alexander, Alessio Sancetta and Marketa Halova Wolfe (2022). Drift Begone! Release Procedures and Preannouncement Price Drift. Journal of International Money and Finance, 128, 102718.
- Wolfe, Marketa Halova (2023) Incorporating Racial Justice Topics into an Econometrics Course. Eastern Economic Journal, 49, 319-323.
- Kucher, Oleg, Alexander Kurov, and Marketa Halova Wolfe (2023). A Shot in the Arm: The Effect of COVID-19 Vaccine News on Financial and Commodity
Markets. The Financial Review, 58(3), 575鈥�596. Online Appendix.
- Kurov, Alexander, Eric Olson and Marketa Halova Wolfe (2024). Have the Causal Effects between Equities, Oil Prices, and Monetary Policy Changed
Over Time? Forthcoming in Journal of Commodity Markets, 36, 100446.
Rotheim, Roy and Marketa Halova Wolfe (2026). Semester-Long Central Banking Project in Monetary Theory and Policy Course. Forthcoming in International Review of Economics Education.
MANUSCRIPT
- Multinational Production, Risk-Sharing, and Home Equity Bias (2018) with Fabio Ghironi. Technical Appendix.
PRIVATE SECTOR WORK EXPERIENCE
- Energy industry: ConocoPhillips (2001鈥�2007)
- Financial industry: JP Morgan Chase (2000鈥�2001)