Michael Boldin

Senior Economic Analyst, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Michael Boldin is a senior economic analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia with broad experience using statistical software and building both large and small databases for economic, financial market and company-level research.

Dr. Boldin received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania. His fields of study where finance, monetary theory and industrial organization, and his dissertation was titled “Business Cycles and Stock Market Volatility: Theory and Evidence of Animal Spirits.”

From 2008 to 2013, Dr. Boldin was an assistant professor in the finance department of the Fox School of Business and Management at Temple University. Besides teaching courses in general finance, fixed income and financial modelling, he inaugurated and managed their capital markets room that gives students hands-on experience using econometric software, financial market tools such as Bloomberg and Capital-IQ, learn stock and bond trading practices, and run business scenarios.

From 2001 to 2008, Dr. Boldin was the director of research support services at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to that appointment he served as director of business cycle research at the Conference Board and as an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He has also taught at the University of Pennsylvania, New York University and Rutgers University.

Dr. Boldin is an expert in financial and economic data sources. His current research examines econometric methodologies for exploring business cycles and regional economies. He has published in the Journal of Banking and Finance, Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, Journal of Business and the Journal of Social and Economic Measurement. He has presented his work at various regional and national conferences, including the American Economic Association Meetings and the Financial Management Association Meetings.