Bio

Karlyn Mitchell completed her PhD in economics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1982. She worked as a research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City doing policy research and writing articles prior to joining the faculty at NC State in 1985. Mitchell has taught courses in corporate finance, entrepreneurial finance and financial markets. She has also served as a visiting professor at the University of British Columbia, Canada, and as a lecturer at Skema Business School.

Mitchell’s research interests lie at the intersection of economics and finance. They include monetary policy, banking, business lending, trade credit, corporate borrowing and economic expectations. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking and Journal of Banking and Finance.

Area(s) of Expertise

Monetary policy, banking, business lending, trade credit, corporate borrowing and economic expectations

Publications

• The trade credit channel and monetary policy transmission: Empirical evidence from U.S. panel data , The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance (2020)
• HOW DID UNCONVENTIONAL MONETARY POLICY AFFECT ECONOMIC FORECASTS? , Contemporary Economic Policy (2019)
• Direct Evidence on Sticky Information from the Revision Behavior of Professional Forecasters , Southern Economic Journal (2017)
• Bank dependency and banker directors , Managerial Finance (2015)
• Do Wall Street economists believe in Okun’s Law and the Taylor Rule? , Journal of Economics and Finance (2009)
• Economic Forecasters and Okun’s Law , Journal of Musashi University (2009)
• Lending technologies, lending specialization, and minority access to small-business loans , Small Business Economics (2009)
• Professional forecasts of interest rates and exchange rates: Evidence from the Wall Street Journal’s panel of economists , Journal of Macroeconomics (2007)
• Can Business Economists Predict Interest Rate or Exchange Rate Movements? , Corporate Finance Review (2006)
• Availability of Financing to Small Firms Using the Survey of Small Business Finances , (2005)

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