Alexander Bick

Alexander Bick is an economic policy advisor in the Research division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, which he joined in June 2022. He is a macroeconomist with interests in labor economics, economic growth, and development. His current research focuses on two broad topics: first, within- and cross-country differences in how much people work and how this decision is affected by public policies; second, trends in working from home in the U.S. and the consequences for job and geographic mobility. During the first two years of the pandemic, he ran a high-frequency online survey in collaboration with the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas to provide real-time estimates of the state of the labor market.

Bick holds a master’s degree and doctorate in economics from Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. His research has been published in leading general interest journals in economics such as the American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, and Quarterly Journal of Economics. His research has been covered by national and international media outlets such as the Associated Press, Bloomberg, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. After finishing his dissertation in 2009, Bick stayed for three years as an assistant professor at Goethe University. From 2012-2022, he was an assistant and associate professor of economics at Arizona State University, where he taught in the M.B.A. and Ph.D. programs. He spent his sabbatical in the fall of 2019 as a research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.