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Karen Kopecky

Economic and Policy Advisor and Director
Areas of Expertise macroeconomics, inequality, health, public finance, household and family economics
Department Program on Economic Inclusion
Education
  • BA,
  • Education,
  • State University of New York at Buffalo,
  • 2001
  • BS,
  • Economics and Mathematics,
  • State University of New York at Buffalo,
  • 2001
  • MA,
  • Economics,
  • University of Rochester,
  • 2003
  • PhD,
  • Economics,
  • University of Rochester,
  • 2007

Karen Kopecky is an economic and policy advisory and director in the Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. Her primary field of study is macroeconomics, with interests in inequality, public finance, insurance markets, retirement, health, and computational methods for macroeconomic modeling.

Prior to joining the Bank in 2023, Dr. Kopecky was a research economist and advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. She also spent four years as an assistant professor of economics at the University of Western Ontario.

Dr. Kopecky has a BA in economics and a BS in mathematics from the State University of New York at Buffalo and earned both her MA and PhD in economics from the University of Rochester.