Vice President and Economist and Section Head for Consumer Finance
Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Satyajit Chatterjee is Vice President and Economist and Section Head for Consumer Finance in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. He joined the Bank in 1991 and has held his current position since August 2017. Prior to joining the Bank he was faculty at the University of Iowa. He has held visiting faculty positions at the Wharton School and the University of Texas at Austin and is a visiting fellow at Drexel University’s School of Economics.
Chatterjee has written on a wide range of macroeconomic topics, including business cycles, business formation, regional and urban economic growth, consumer debt and bankruptcy, the mortgage crisis, sovereign debt crises and political economics
His research has appeared in leading economic journals, including the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Journal of Political Economy, and the Review of Economic Studies. He is the co-founder and co-organizer of the Philadelphia Workshop on Macroeconomics and Economic Policy and a co-organizer of the Conference on Macroeconomics across Time and Space. He served as an associate editor of Macroeconomic Dynamics.
Chatterjee holds bachelor’s degree from the University of Delhi, India, master’s degrees from the Delhi School of Economics and the University of Rochester and a Ph.D. from the University of Rochester.