Tom Phelan

Thomas Phelan is a research economist in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. His research focuses on macroeconomic theory, optimal contracting, and public economics.

Before joining the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Phelan was an instructor at the University of Minnesota, where he taught undergraduate courses in microeconomics and public economics, as well as a mathematics-refresher course for incoming graduate students. Earlier, he served as a research assistant at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and as a teaching assistant in the University of Minnesota’s economics department, supporting courses in Ph.D.-level microeconomics and principles of microeconomics.

Phelan earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Minnesota. He also holds a master of philosophy in mathematics and a bachelor’s in mathematics from the Australian National University.