About

Brigitte Roth Tran is a Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Dr. Roth Tran’s research uses large datasets to examine a wide range of microeconomic and financial questions for households, firms, and the economy. Her work has shown that financial markets price in significant uncertainty for firms in the paths of hurricanes, that individual store losses due to unfavorable weather conditions on one day are large and not simply made up over time, that the 2011-2018 decline in demand for coal negatively affect household finances in Appalachia, and that U.S. natural disasters tend to boost local area incomes over the longer run in directly affected counties. Her work has been published in peer reviewed journals like the American Economic Review: Insights, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, and Management Science and been highlighted in media outlets like the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, the Economist, and Forbes.

Prior to her current role, Dr. Roth Tran forecast residential and nonresidential investment at Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, D.C.. She earned her B.S. in economics at Caltech and PhD in economics at UC San Diego, where she took courses at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography as an NSF IGERT Fellow. Prior to pursuing her Ph.D., Dr. Roth Tran worked in the private and nonprofit sectors.

Note: All views expressed on this site are those of Brigitte Roth Tran and do not reflect the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, the Federal Reserve System or its staff.