David Altig

Affiliation: Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Dr. David E. Altig is senior vice president and director of research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. In addition to advising the Bank president on Monetary policy and related matters, Dr. Altig oversees the Bank's research and public affairs departments. He also serves as a member of the Bank's management and discount committees.

Dr. Altig also serves as an adjunct professor of economics in the graduate school of business at the University of Chicago and the Chinese Executive MBA program sponsored by the University of Minnesota and Lingnan College of Sun Yat-Sen University.

Prior to joining the Atlanta Fed, Dr. Altig served as vice president and associate director of research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. He joined the Cleveland Fed in 1991 as an economist before being promoted in 1997. Before joining the Cleveland Fed, Dr. Altig was a faculty member in the department of business economics and public policy at Indiana University. He also has lectured at Ohio State University, Brown University, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland State University, Duke University, John Carroll University, Kent State University, and the University of Iowa.

Dr. Altig's research is widely published and primarily focused on monetary and fiscal policy issues. His articles have appeared in a variety of journals including the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, the American Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, and the Journal of Monetary Economics. He has also served as editor for several conference volumes on a wide range of macroeconomic and monetary-economic topics.

Dr. Altig was born in Springfield, Ill., on Aug. 10, 1956. He graduated from the University of Iowa with a bachelor's degree in business administration. He earned his master's and doctoral degrees in economics from Brown University.

He and his wife Pam have four children and three grandchildren.

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David Altig's Latest Articles | 59

The Three Faces of Postcrisis Monetary Policy

May 24, 2012| 

The latest edition of the San Francisco Fed’s Economic Letter (written by Michael Bauer) has a nice review of the different channels through which the Fed’s... Read »

Is Inflation Targeting Really Dead?

May 18, 2012| 

Harvard’s Jeffrey Frankel (hat tip, Mark Thoma) is the latest econ-blogger to cast an admiring gaze in the direction of nominal gross domestic product (GDP)... Read »

Historical Perspective on Monthly Job Growth, and Jobs Calculator Enhancements

May 9, 2012| 

By now, if you’ve been paying attention to the coverage following the April employment report, you know the following: The March to April decline in the unemployment... Read »

Is the Composition of Job Growth Behind Slow Income Growth?

Apr 14, 2012| 

Harold Meyerson, Washington Post opinion writer, channels a Bloomberg report (via The Big Picture), and thinks he finds a smoking gun: “Why is this recovery... Read »

The Structure of the Structural Unemployment Question

Apr 10, 2012| 

In the middle of its thorough analysis of U.S. labor markets, the New York Fed tucked in a direct look at whether persistently high unemployment can be plausibly... Read »

In the Interest of Precision

Jan 6, 2012| 

As you may have heard, the minutes of the December 13 meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) contained the news that, starting with this month’s... Read »

Uncertainty about Uncertainty

Dec 20, 2011| 

One of the hotly debated issues among those debating policy in the pages of various Fed publications (virtual and otherwise) is why job creation in the United States... Read »

Maybe This Time Was At Least A Little Different?

Dec 16, 2011| 

Earlier this week, Derek Thomson, a senior editor at The Atlantic, began his article “The Graph That Proves Economic Forecasters Are Almost Always Wrong”... Read »

The Ongoing Lender of Last Resort Debate

Dec 2, 2011| 

Two days do not a policy success make, and it is a fool’s game to tie the merits of a policy action to a short-term stock market cycle. But at first blush... Read »

The Postrecession Job Picture

Sep 9, 2011| 

There is not much to be said about the August employment report released last Friday—or not much good, anyway. The ongoing updates at Calculated Risk provide a... Read »

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