Alex Nikolsko-Rzhevskyy is a Professor of Economics in the College of Business at Lehigh University and a Research Development Advisor at the International Monetary Fund. He earned his doctorate in Economics from the University of Houston and a master's degree in Physics from Odesa National University in Ukraine. Nikolsko-Rzhevskyy's papers have been published in the Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, and International Journal of Forecasting. He has been the