Economists

Tyler Atkinson

Senior Business Economist
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Tyler Atkinson is a senior business economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.

Atkinson, who joined the Bank in 2010, analyzes U.S. economic growth, inflation, labor market trends and the role of monetary policy. His research interests include economic forecasting and the macroeconomic effects of the zero lower bound on interest rates.

He earned an MS in economics from Boston College and a BS in economics from Texas A&M University.

Publications

“Venture Capital Restrained After Sarbanes–Oxley,” with John V. Duca, Economics Letters, vol. 175, February 2019, pp. 84–7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2018.12.018.
See also: Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Working Paper no. 1707, August 2017.

Working Papers

“The Zero Lower Bound and Estimation Accuracy,” with Alexander W. Richter and Nathaniel Throckmorton, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Working Paper no. 1804, May 2018, revised February 2019.

Dallas Fed Publications

"America’s Missing Workers Are Primarily Middle Educated," with Alan Armen, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Economic Letter, vol. 12, no. 4, March 2017.
"Is Rising Unemployment an Early Warning of State-Level Recession?" with Alan Armen, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Economic Letter, vol. 11, no. 8, July 2016.
"Assessing the Costs and Consequences of the 2007–09 Financial Crisis and Its Aftermath," with David Luttrell and Harvey Rosenblum, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Economic Letter, vol. 8, no. 7, September 2013.
"How Bad Was It? The Costs and Consequences of the 2007–09 Financial Crisis," with David Luttrell and Harvey Rosenblum, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Staff Papers, no. 20, July 2013.
"High Unemployment Points to Below-Target (But Still Stable) Inflation," with Evan F. Koenig, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Economic Letter, vol. 7, no. 12, October 2012.
"Inflation, Slack, and Fed Credibility," with Evan F. Koenig, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Staff Papers, no. 16, January 2012.
"Gauging the Odds of a Double-Dip Recession Amid Signals and Slowdowns," with Harvey Rosenblum, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Economic Letter, vol. 5, no. 12, December 2010.