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John Robertson

Affiliation: Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

John C. Robertson is a vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. He is the team leader for the macropolicy and applied microeconomic research group at the Atlanta Fed and is one of the Bank's senior monetary policy advisers.

Dr. Robertson joined the Atlanta Fed's research department in December 1997 from the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. His research has been published in many distinguished economics journals. He became an assistant vice president in 2000 and assumed his current position in December 2005.

A native of Dunedin, New Zealand, Dr. Robertson holds bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and earned his Ph.D. in economics from Virginia Tech in 1992 and is married with two children.

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John Robertson's Latest Articles | 16

In Search of an Agenda for Job Creation

Dec 21, 2011| 

In a macroblog post yesterday, Dave Altig, research director at that Atlanta Fed, discussed some recent research from the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland focused... Read »

The Earnings Impact of a Job Loss

Nov 22, 2011| 

Princeton University Professor Henry Farber recently spoke with the Atlanta Fed’s Center for Human Capital Studies. Farber discussed some of his current research,... Read »

Job Creation by Small Firms: Age Matters

Nov 18, 2011| 

Talking about the role of the average or typical small business in job creation is problematic. Discussing it is challenging because job creation is highly skewed... Read »

Bank Lending to Finance a Business Start-Up

Nov 10, 2011| 

On Wednesday and Thursday of this week I attended a conference titled “Small Business and Entrepreneurship during an Economic Recovery,” presented by... Read »

Fed Treasury Purchases: How Big is Big?

Sep 30, 2011| 

In his July 13 testimony to Congress, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke discussed the large-scale asset purchase program to buy $600 billion of longer-term Treasury... Read »

The Pull Between Spending and Saving

Sep 2, 2011| 

In a speech on Wednesday, Atlanta Fed President Dennis Lockhart talked about how the economic outlook is being shaped by the process of deleveraging (reducing debt... Read »

The New Firm Employment Puzzle

Aug 18, 2011| 

Last week, John Bussey of the Wall Street Journal identified some discouraging statistics from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics “Business Employment Dynamics”... Read »

A Disturbing Trend: No Growth in Total Business Establishments in U.S.

Mar 30, 2011| 

The last Atlanta Fed poll of small businesses in the Southeast suggested an uptick in confidence late last year. A similar upturn has been noted in the National... Read »

Another View of the Structural vs Cyclical Unemployment Question

Jun 11, 2010| 

One of the key functions of labor markets is matching firms looking for workers who have particular attributes (or skills) with individuals looking for work who... Read »

The Recovery: Job Rich or Job Poor?

Jun 3, 2010| 

Gross domestic product (GDP) is growing, supported by strong labor productivity numbers and modest employment growth. Even after today’s downward revision... Read »

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