Alexander Tan is a research associate at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. Tan graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a bachelor’s degree in data science and economics. His research interests include inequality, political economy, labor economics, econometrics, and development economics.

As a first-year associate, Tan collaborates with several economists at the Richmond Fed. He is supporting Huberto Ennis, Santiago Pinto, and Horacio Sapriza in their joint investigation of bank lending standards. He is also assisting Pinto and Sapriza with their work on the predictive power of consumer sentiment for U.S. consumption growth, as well as supporting these economists with their separate research projects on municipal bond issuance costs for education, policing efficacy and crime reporting, and lending to address capital and liquidity shortfalls.