Research Interests
national and regional economic conditions, developments, and trendsSelected Work
“Resilience of Nonprofits Serving or Led by People of Color During the COVID-19 Pandemic”
with Baorong Guo and Nishesh Chalise
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, April 23, 2025
“Sovereign Debt Restructuring and Credit Recovery”
Economia, Journal of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association, Vol. 1, No. 23, pp. 230-258
Related working paper (PDF)
“Sovereign Illiquidity and Recessions”
Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control, January 2021, Vol. 122, 104029
“Eighth District Firms Expect Slight Acceleration of Price Pressures in 2025”
with Charles S. Gascon
On the Economy, March 24, 2025
“U.S. Farmers Continue to Face Headwinds”
with Jack Fuller
On the Economy, January 16, 2025
“Survey Examines Health and Education Conditions in the Eighth District’s LMI Communities”
On the Economy, May 28, 2024
“Survey Shows Weakening Conditions for Economic Mobility”
On the Economy, March 21, 2024
“Demographic Disparities in COVID-19 Disruptions: What Has Shaped Them?”
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, Fourth Quarter 2023
“Nonprofits Serving and Led by People of Color Showed Pandemic Resiliency”
Economic Equity Insights, September 23, 2023
“The Role of Community-Based Organizations in Fostering Economic Equity”
On the Economy, March 9, 2023
“Lockdown Responses to COVID-19”
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, Second Quarter 2021
with Jeffrey P. Cohen
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper 2025-001A, January 2025
Violeta A. Gutkowski is an associate economist in the Research division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, which she re-joined in June 2024, after joining in 2019. In the intervening years, she worked on the St. Louis Fed’s Community Development team, where she conducted nationwide and District-wide surveys to assess conditions of low- to moderate-income communities and the organizations serving them.
Currently, she focuses on analyzing economic conditions in the Eighth Federal Reserve District and writing the Bank’s Beige Book report on economic conditions. She received her Ph.D. in economics from Brown University in 2019 and a master's degree in economics from Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Argentina, in 2011. She has published her research in peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control and Economia LACEA Journal; she has also written extensively for general audiences.