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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 | 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 »

Employment, Effort, Hours, and Fiscal Uncertainty

Feb 6, 2013| 

How much is fiscal uncertainty holding back hiring? The answer seems to depend on whom you ask. Early in January, the Atlanta Fed spoke to 670 businesses in the... Read »

Fed Purchases of Government Debt: Flow-Share vs Stock-Share

Jun 11, 2012| 

In last Friday’s entry to his Economics One blog, Stanford Professor John Taylor reiterated an observation he made a week earlier in a June 1 Wall Street Journal... Read »

The Skills Gap: Still Trying to Separate Myth from Fact

Jun 8, 2012| 

Peter Capelli has looked at the skills gap explanation for labor market weakness and sees more myth than fact: “Indeed, some of the most puzzling stories to... Read »

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 »

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