Economists

R. Anton Braun is an economist emeritus of the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Before his retirement, he was a research economist and senior adviser on the macroeconomics and monetary policy team. His major fields of study are macroeconomic risks and the effects of monetary policy.

Prior to joining the Bank in 2010, Dr. Braun was a full professor at the University of Tokyo, where he worked from 2001 to 2010. His other previous appointments include associate professor at the International University of Japan in Niigata, Japan, from 1998 to 2000; senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis from 1992 to 1997; assistant professor at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville from 1989 to 1994; and research assistant at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1985 to 1988. Dr. Braun served as a visiting scholar at CREI Universitat Pompeu Fabra, in Barcelona, Spain, from 2008 to 2009, and at both the Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros and Universidad Carlos III, in Madrid, Spain, from 1996 to 1997.

Dr. Braun has published research in a variety of peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Monetary Economics,and the Japanese Economic Review. He is a director of the Atlanta Census Research Data Center and a referee for a number of journals, including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, and the European Economic Review, and for the National Science Foundation. He has been honored with a Ministry of Health, Welfare, Education and Sports grant (2003–10), Kikawada Foundation grant (2006–08), and Foundation for International Education grant (1999–2000).

Dr. Braun received a bachelor of science degree in economics from Indiana University at South Bend. He earned his master's degree and doctorate in economics from Carnegie-Mellon University.