Slavik Sheremirov is an Economist in the Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. He holds B.A. from Odessa National Mechnikov University (Odessa, Ukraine), M.A. from EERC/Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Kyiv, Ukraine), and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. His research is primarily focused on macroeconomic issues, especially pricing and effectiveness of monetary and fiscal policy. He is also broadly interested in international economics (in particular, exchange-rate