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Robert Triest, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, is a Senior Economist and Policy Advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Prior to joining the Boston Fed in 1995, Triest was a member of the economics faculties at the University of California, Davis and at Johns Hopkins University. He has also taught as a visiting professor at MIT, and is a visiting scholar at the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. Triests research has focused on topics in public sector economics and labor economics. He is a coauthor of Job Creation, Job Destruction and International Competition (with Michael Klein and Scott Schuh), and is a coeditor of The Macroeconomics of Fiscal Policy (with Richard Kopcke and Geoffrey Tootell), and Seismic Shifts: The Economic Impact of Demographic Change (with Jane Little). Triest earned a PhD in economics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.