Alexander Bick

Alexander Bick is a senior economic policy advisor in the Research Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. He is a macroeconomist with research interests in labor markets and economic growth.

His current work focuses on two areas: within- and cross-country differences in hours worked and the role of public policy, and recent labor market trends, including remote work and the adoption of generative AI.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, he co-led a high-frequency online labor market survey with the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas to provide real-time estimates of the state of the labor market. 

Bick’s research has been published in top economics journals, including American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, and Quarterly Journal of Economics. His work has also been featured in media outlets such as Bloomberg, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.

Prior to joining the St. Louis Fed, he held academic positions at Goethe University and Arizona State University and spent a sabbatical in 2019 as a research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Bick earned his Ph.D. in economics from Goethe University Frankfurt.