Valerie Ramey is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy and Research. She currently serves on the Panel of Economic Advisers for the Congressional Budget Office and is chair of the NBER Business Cycle Dating Committee. She has published numerous scholarly and policy-relevant articles on macroeconomic topics such as the sources of business cycles, the effects of monetary and fiscal policy, and the impact of volatility on growth. Her recent work has studied the size of government spending multipliers and has estimated the projected effects of climate change on economic growth. Her work has been featured in major media, such as the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.