R. Andrew Bauer (Andy) is vice president and regional executive for the Baltimore branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. Bauer serves as the lead external facing officer for the Richmond Fed in Maryland, the Greater Washington metropolitan area, and West Virginia.
Through interactions with business, financial, academic, community, and state and local government contacts, Bauer gathers economic intelligence to inform the Bank's assessment of the economy and its monetary policy deliberations. He also works with community leaders and partners with regional organizations to share research perspectives in areas of expertise related to the Bank's mission, including advancing the Bank's community development goal of promoting investment in low- and moderate-income communities.
Bauer engages with the public in order to build a common understanding of the Federal Reserve's mission and gain regional input into the Federal Reserve's policy development processes. He also regularly speaks about national and regional economic conditions and Federal Reserve policy to business, professional and trade associations, community groups, and the media.
Prior to becoming regional executive, Bauer worked as a senior regional economist at the Richmond Fed. In that capacity, he was responsible for monitoring and analyzing macroeconomic and regional economic conditions and spoke regularly about the economy and monetary policy. Before joining the Richmond Fed in 2006, he worked as an economic analyst in the macroeconomic policy group in the Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
Bauer serves on the board of the Maryland Council of Economic Education, is an instructor at the Maryland Banking Association's Banking School and is a former affiliate assistant professor at Loyola University.
Bauer earned his doctorate in economics from Emory University in 2007 and a bachelor's degree from American University in 1994.
In this special edition of the Regional View, Bauer — along with Matt Martin and Renee Haltom — discusses the economic impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak.
Bauer reviewed local and national economic conditions in Garrett County, Md.
Bauer reviewed economic conditions in the Washington, D.C., metro region.
Bauer reviewed economic conditions in Northern Virginia and the D.C. metro area at a meeting in Leesburg, Va.
Andy Bauer discussed the national economy at a conference in Fairmont, W.Va.
Bauer offered his outlook on the economy at a meeting in Arlington, Va.
Bauer reviewed economic conditions in the D.C. metro area at a meeting in Leesburg, Va.
Bauer reviewed economic conditions in Maryland and the nation at a meeting in Silver Springs, Md.
Bauer reviewed economic conditions at a meeting of CFOs in Columbia, Md.
Bauer discussed the national economy at a conference in Morgantown, W.Va.
Bauer reviewed national economic conditions at a meeting in Hughesville, Md.
Bauer reviewed economic conditions in the U.S. and Maryland at a forum in Baltimore, Md.
Bauer provided his view of the national economy at a conference in Charleston. W.Va.
Bauer provided an overview of economic conditions at a meeting in Silver Spring, Md.
Bauer discussed energy markets at a meeting in Baltimore, Md.
"Transparency, Expectations, and Forecasts" (with Robert A. Eisenbeis, Daniel F. Waggoner, and Tao Zha). Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Economic Review 91, no. 1 (1st Quarter 2006): 1-25.
"Smoothing the Shocks of a Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Model" (with Nicholas Haltom and Juan F. Rubio-Ramirez). Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Economic Review 90, no. 2 (2nd Quarter 2005): 35-47.
"Decomposing Inflation" (with Nicholas Haltom and William Peterman). Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Economic Review 89, no. 1 (1st Quarter 2004): 39-51.
"Forecast Evaluation with Cross-Sectional Data: The Blue Chip Surveys" (with Robert A. Eisenbeis, Daniel F. Waggoner, and Tao Zha). Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Economic Review 88, no. 2 (2nd Quarter 2003): 17-31.
