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.

Recent Blog Posts by David E. Altig

• Labor Force Participation and the Unemployment Threshold May 15th, 2013
• Will the Next Exit from Monetary Stimulus Really Be Different from the Last? March 13th, 2013
• Nominal GDP Targeting: Still a Skeptic December 31st, 2012
• (Fiscal) Cliff Notes November 14th, 2012
• The (Maybe Not So) Simple Arithmetic of Unemployment and Labor Force Participation October 12th, 2012
• Divergent Jobs Reports: Will the Real State of the Labor Market Please Stand Up? October 11th, 2012
• Supporting Price Stability October 10th, 2012
• Scientists? Engineers? How about Gardeners? September 27th, 2012
• The Cost-Benefit Challenge for the Fed August 27th, 2012
• The (Unfortunately?) Consistent Record of the Recovery August 20th, 2012
• The Skills Gap: Still Trying to Separate Myth from Fact June 8th, 2012
• What Is Shadow Banking? June 1st, 2012
• The Three Faces of Postcrisis Monetary Policy May 24th, 2012
• Is Inflation Targeting Really Dead? May 17th, 2012
• A Take on Labor Force Participation and the Unemployment Rate May 10th, 2012
• 2% Inflation Target: Symmetric Goals, Asymmetric Risks May 4th, 2012
• Is the Composition of Job Growth Behind Slow Income Growth? April 15th, 2012
• The Structure of the Structural Unemployment Question April 9th, 2012
• Why We Debate March 26th, 2012
• Unconventional Policy or Unconventional Circumstances? March 18th, 2012
• How Are We Doing? February 17th, 2012
• Reading the Bump in Inventories February 12th, 2012
• Uncertainty About Uncertainty December 22nd, 2011
• Maybe This Time Was at Least a Little Different? December 18th, 2011
• Is the Growth Tide Turning? October 24th, 2011
• State and Local Fiscal Fortunes: Follow the Money (Collected) October 18th, 2011
• Another Cut at the Postrecession Job Picture September 9th, 2011
• Lots of Ground to Cover: An Update August 28th, 2011
• Is the Economy Hitting Stall Speed? August 2nd, 2011
• Lots of Ground to Cover July 29th, 2011
• One More Sign of Struggles on the Job Creation Front July 14th, 2011
• Is the Employment Report a Game Changer? July 11th, 2011
• Core Cuts Both Ways June 14th, 2011
• US: Just How Out of Line Are House Prices? May 16th, 2011
• Another Step to Enhance Fed Transparency – And No Better Time Than Now March 27th, 2011
• The Unemployment Puzzle – Or at Least One of Them March 23rd, 2011
• Global Inflation and the Fed: One More Time February 25th, 2011
• China’s Inflation Dilemma February 20th, 2011
• The Inflation Disconnect February 13th, 2011
• John Taylor and Fed Reform: Is Change Required? February 3rd, 2011
• The Pluses and Minuses of Reluctant Consumers January 12th, 2011
• Looking Back, Looking Forward January 5th, 2011
• An Inflation (or Lack Thereof) Chart Show December 23rd, 2010
• What Might Monetary Policy Success Look Like? December 6th, 2010
• Just How Does Policy Work? November 22nd, 2010
• What Does “Structural” Mean? October 5th, 2010
• Some Observations Regarding Interest on Reserves August 2nd, 2010
• A Curious Unemployment Picture Gets More Curious July 19th, 2010
• Return of the Swap Lines May 13th, 2010
• Breaking Up Big Banks: as Usual, Benefits Come with a Side of Costs April 8th, 2010
• Should the Fed Stay in Regulation? February 22nd, 2010
• The Punch Bowl, the Party, the Exit February 16th, 2010
• Competing Histories February 11th, 2010
• Change the Bathwater, Keep the Baby December 28th, 2009
• Another Rescue Plan Comes in Below the Original Price Tag December 9th, 2009
• The Growing Case for a Jobless Recovery October 23rd, 2009
• How Fast Can the Economy Grow? August 19th, 2009
• A Look at the Recovery July 29th, 2009
• Debt and money June 5th, 2009
• Abnormal consumer spending—not quite April 18th, 2009
• Déjà vu all over again April 16th, 2009
• Snapping ropes and breaking bricks April 1st, 2009
• Careful with that language March 25th, 2009
• Dueling forecasts March 9th, 2009
• The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in pictures February 19th, 2009
• How bad is the employment picture, really? February 14th, 2009
• Contraction, not tightening February 8th, 2009
• There is no accounting for priorities February 6th, 2009
• What, exactly, is the Fed trying to do? January 16th, 2009
• On expanding balance sheets and inflationary policy January 15th, 2009
• Will tax stimulus stimulate investment? January 8th, 2009
• Good news in income growth? January 7th, 2009
• Good news in income growth? December 31st, 2008
• Are modern recessions different? December 25th, 2008
• The recession in pictorial context December 7th, 2008
• Do you see what they see? December 6th, 2008
• How should we think about the monetary transmission mechanism? November 27th, 2008
• What do we know about infrastructure spending? November 19th, 2008
• More on the changing operational face of monetary policy November 16th, 2008
• The changing operational face of monetary policy November 15th, 2008