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 | 57

Economic Recovery: Lots of Ground to Cover

Jul 28, 2011| 

In my last post I noted that the pace of the recovery, now two years old, is in broad terms similar to that of the first two years of the previous two recoveries.... Read »

Core Cuts Both Ways

Jun 13, 2011| 

With the six-month average of annualized headline inflation running just over 5 percent, this Wednesday’s consumer price index (CPI) report looms a little... Read »

“Secret Loans” That Were Not So Secret

May 28, 2011| 

I confess to be more than a little surprised when yesterday’s morning reading turned up the following headline, from Bloomberg’s Bob Ivry: “Fed... Read »

The Long and Short (runs) of Tax Reform

May 19, 2011| 

In an earlier part of my career, I spent a fair amount of time thinking about fiscal policy issues. The evolution of my responsibilities eventually moved my attentions... Read »

Is Housing Hurting the Recovery?

May 11, 2011| 

Though the week is only half over, I’m going to nominate Stan Humphries and Zillow as bearers of the week’s most distressing economic news: “Home... Read »

Is Offshoring Behind U.S. Employment’s Current Problems?

May 4, 2011| 1

In a week loaded with important economic news, no piece of data will garner more justifiable attention than Friday’s April employment report. The importance... Read »

Can Keynesians Be Anti-Keynesian?

Apr 18, 2011| 

Follow any policy debate, and you are sure to find a list of economists who support or inspire those on both sides of the issue. In The Economist, we find some... Read »

How Has the Financial System Changed? (And What To Do About It)

Apr 13, 2011| 

The subject of this post’s title was, in essence, the centerpiece of the most recent edition of the Atlanta Fed’s annual Financial Markets Conference,... Read »

Monetary Policy Exit: Is A Bad Bank the Solution?

Apr 8, 2011| 

It is not difficult to find people who espouse the following belief: “One of the Fed’s recent errors was increasing the money supply by buying more than... Read »

Another Step to Enhance Fed Transparency–and No Better Time Than Now

Mar 25, 2011| 

As most of you probably know, the Federal Reserve announced yesterday that: “Chairman Ben S. Bernanke will hold press briefings four times per year to present... Read »

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