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 | 79

Labor Market: Muddy Waters Continue to Run Deep

Apr 5, 2013| 

Earlier this week, Atlanta Fed President Dennis Lockhart gave a speech in Birmingham, Alabama, focused on labor markets, risks to the outlook, and current monetary... Read »

The Same-Old, Same-Old Labor Market

Mar 28, 2013| 

In his March 24 Wall Street Journal piece on declining government payrolls, Sudeep Reddy offers up a key observation: The cuts in the public-sector workforce—at... Read »

Will the Next Exit from Monetary Stimulus Really Be Different from the Last?

Mar 8, 2013| 

Suppose you run a manufacturing business—let’s say, for example, widgets. Your customers are loyal and steady, but you are never completely certain when... Read »

What the Dual Mandate Looks Like

Mar 1, 2013| 

Sometimes simple, direct points are the most powerful. For me, the simplest and most direct points in Chairman Bernanke’s Senate testimony this week were contained... Read »

Half-Full Glasses

Feb 1, 2013| 

Just in case you were inclined to drop the “dismal” from the “dismal science,” Northwestern University professor Robert Gordon has been doing... Read »

What the FOMC Said: More Clarification

Jan 2, 2013| 

UC San Diego professor Jim Hamilton is in my opinion one of the blogosphere’s best commentators on Fed policy, and his most recent post at Econbrowser has... Read »

Nominal GDP Targeting: Still a Skeptic

Dec 28, 2012| 

In a few days the clock will run out on another year of disappointing economic growth in the United States and, generally speaking, in the world. It is inevitable... Read »

Try, Try Again

Dec 21, 2012| 

As a regular, satisfied customer of The Wall Street Journal‘s “Heard on the Street” feature, I was a bit distressed to read this, from an item... Read »

Getting the Questions Right

Nov 9, 2012| 

Among the plethora of post-election exit-poll results, the CNBC website highlights a particularly interesting response, linked from the mega-blog Instapundit with... Read »

Reading Labor Markets

Nov 5, 2012| 

When the September employment report was released on October 5, the top-line payroll employment gain for the month, as reported in the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’... Read »

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