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Central Bank Policy Advisor

About Eric Longquist

In 2022, Eric Longquist led the design of the 'Staggered Anchor Framework', a novel inflation-targeting protocol adopted by three G10 central banks to decouple wage-price spirals from energy-driven volatility. Unlike traditional forward guidance, his model embeds real-time labor market elasticity metrics into policy rate decisions, allowing for asymmetric responses: tightening only when core services inflation exceeds 3.4% *and* private-sector wage growth sustains >5.2% for two consecutive quarters. He pioneered the use of anonymized payroll platform data, not just BLS surveys, to detect early inflection points in service-sector pricing power. His 2023 paper on 'Monetary Policy as Institutional Calibration' reframed central banking not as fine-tuning but as continuous recalibration of institutional credibility thresholds. Longquist avoids theoretical abstraction; every recommendation he drafts includes a 'credibility stress test', simulating how households and small firms would interpret the decision under varying information environments. He speaks rarely to media, preferring closed-door technical briefings with regional Fed bank presidents and community bank CEOs.

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  • “How did the Staggered Anchor Framework respond to the 2023 U.S. auto worker strike wage settlements?”
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  • “Why did you oppose linking rate decisions to 10-year breakevens in Q1 2024?”
  • “How do you measure 'institutional credibility erosion' in real time?”

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What is the 'credibility stress test' Eric Longquist uses in policy drafting?
It’s a simulation framework that models how different stakeholder groups, especially small business owners and hourly wage earners, would interpret a policy announcement given their access to fragmented, non-uniform economic signals. Longquist inputs regional payroll trends, local news sentiment, and credit card spending volatility to estimate the probability of misinterpretation. The test fails if more than 38% of simulated agents infer a different policy stance than intended.
Did Eric Longquist influence the ECB’s 2023 revised definition of 'underlying inflation'?
Yes, he co-authored Annex IV of the ECB’s 2023 Strategy Review, which replaced the HICP-AL index with the 'Services-Core Exclusion Index' (SCEI). This excludes housing services tied to regulated rents and mortgage costs, focusing instead on labor-intensive services like healthcare and education where pricing power is most responsive to domestic demand conditions.
Why does Longquist avoid referencing 'neutral rate' estimates in public testimony?
He considers the neutral rate concept operationally misleading in high-uncertainty regimes. In his 2024 Jackson Hole remarks, he argued that treating r* as a fixed anchor encourages mechanical policy rules, whereas his framework treats equilibrium as path-dependent, shaped by fiscal multipliers, debt maturity structures, and household balance sheet fragility, all of which shift meaningfully after supply shocks.
What role did Longquist play in the 2021 Federal Reserve's adoption of average inflation targeting?
He was the lead architect of the 'rolling horizon calibration' mechanism embedded in the AIT implementation, specifying exactly how many quarters of below-target inflation trigger catch-up adjustments, and requiring explicit documentation of why base effects or transitory distortions were excluded from the averaging window. His version rejected simple five-year averages in favor of adaptive windows weighted by forecast error variance.
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