Yelena Takhtamanova joined the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco in 2005. As an economist, her research, analysis, and outreach activities support both the Economic Research and Public Information Departments.

Yelena's current research focuses on topics in macroeconomics, monetary economics and international economics. Her recent research projects address exchange rate pass-through to inflation, inflation-output tradeoff (the Phillips curve), the link between household wealth and consumption (wealth effect), and the differential effect of monetary policy on male and female employment. The abstracts of her research papers are available on the Bank's website (http://www.frbsf.org/).

Yelena holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Johns Hopkins University. Prior to joining the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, she has been an assistant professor at the California State University, Sacramento. She also lectured on macroeconomics and international monetary economics at the Johns Hopkins University.