Fields of interest
Labor markets, employers' role in market outcomes, inequality, recessions' labor market impacts, wage flexibility

Erica Groshen is a vice president and the director of Regional Outreach. She leads and coordinates the Bank's regional initiatives. Ms. Groshen's research focuses on the effects of recessions on labor markets, wage rigidity and dispersion and the role of employers in the labor market. Prior to her current role she served as assistant vice president, editor of the Bank’s Economic Policy Review, head of domestic research and head of international research.

Before joining the Bank in 1994, Ms. Groshen was a visiting assistant professor of economics at Barnard College at Columbia University. She was also an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. Ms. Groshen earned a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University and a bachelor’s degree in economics and mathematics from University of Wisconsin-Madison.