Robert Triest is a vice president and economist in the research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, where he leads the macroeconomic applications section. He is also a visiting scholar at the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. Before joining the Bank, he was an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins University and an associate professor at the University of California at Davis.

Triest’s research on topics in public finance and labor economics has been published in various professional journals, including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Perspectives, and the Review of Economics and Statistics, as well as in Boston Fed publications. He is currently working on projects related to gross flows in the labor market, and to the interaction of housing, savings, and portfolio choices.

Triest earned his bachelor’s degree from Vassar College and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin.