Inside Central Bankers’ Calendars: How Do Fed Chairs Allocate Their Time? -- by Thomas Drechsel, Dali Tsakadze

We thank David Beckworth, Ellen Meade, Valerie Ramey, as well as conference participants at the Stanford Hoover Institution Monetary Policy Conference and the 2nd Kiel-CEPR Conference on Monetary Policy for insightful comments. Kartikeya Batra, Nicolas Berlinski, Antonio Maria, and Daniel Thomas provided excellent research assistance. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

• Data collected from Fed Chair calendars