R. Anton Braun
Research Economist and Senior Adviser Emeritus
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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.
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Biography
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.
Published Work
Federal Reserve work covering the latest six years.
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Publications
2017
R. Anton Braun, Karen A. Kopecky, and Tatyana Koreshkova. "Old, Frail, and Uninsured: Accounting
for Features of the U.S. Long-term Care Insurance Market." Working Paper 2017-3c
. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. March 2017 (Revised August 2018).
2016
R. Anton Braun and Tomoyuki Nakajima. "Uninsured Risk, Stagnation, and Fiscal Policy." Working Paper 2016-4a. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. (Revised) March 2016
2014
R. Anton Braun and Douglas H. Joines. "The Implications of a Graying Japan for Government Policy." Working Paper 2014-18. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. December 2014.
2013
R. Anton Braun, Lena Mareen Körber, and Yuichiro Waki. "Small and Orthodox Fiscal Multipliers at the Zero Lower Bound" Working Paper. December 2013.
R. Anton Braun, Karen A. Kopecky, and Tatyana Koreshkova. "Old, Sick, Alone, and Poor: A Welfare Analysis of Old-Age Social Insurance Programs." Working Paper 2013-2. (Revised) February 2015.
2012
R. Anton Braun, Lena Mareen Körber, and Yuichiro Waki. "Some Unpleasant Properties of Log-Linearized Solutions When the Nominal Rate Is Zero." Working Paper 2012-5b. (Revised) September 2012.
R. Anton Braun and Tomoyuki Nakajima. "Making the Case for a Low Intertemporal Elasticity of Substitution." Working Paper 2012-1. January 2012.
2011
R. Anton Braun and Tomoyuki Nakajima. "Why Prices Don't Respond Sooner to a Prospective Sovereign Debt Crisis." Working Paper 2011-13. November 2011.
R. Anton Braun and Tomoyuki Nakajima. "Uninsured Countercyclical Risk: An Aggregation Result and Application to Optimal Monetary Policy." Working Paper 2011-4. March 2011.
Videos
2016
Toni Braun and Karen Kopecky. "The Graying of the American Economy." ECONversations. 2016 May.
2015
Toni Braun. "Getting Personal with Inflation and the Cost of Living." ECONversations. 2015 October.
Podcast Episodes
2017
R. Anton Braun and Karen Kopecky. "An Eye on the Future: A Discussion about the Long-term Care Insurance Market." June 22, 2017.
2016
R. Anton Braun. "The Graying of the Japanese Economy." March 21, 2016.