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Maria A. Arias

FRED Data Champion

Maria A Arias is a Manager and Business Owner of the FRED Data Desk team in the Research Division, where she oversees the development of the data update pipeline and the collection, processing, and publication of data found in FRED. She also helps lead FRED workshops for new and existing audiences to market new features and help users make the most of FRED. Maria previously worked on the FRED team as a Sr. Data Engineer and Product Owner of the Data Desk. Prior to joining the FRED team, she was a Senior Research Associate, working alongside economists to analyze datasets on topics from regional employment to national growth. She has published research on metro area economic activity, as well as poverty and middle-income traps.

Selected Presentations

Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Expenditure Surveys (CES) Workshop webinar: Storytelling with FRED® Graphs: CES Data at Your Fingertips. June 2023.

Association for University Business and Economic Research (AUBER) Fall 2022 Conference: Storytelling with FRED Data, A Mini Workshop. October 2022.

C2ER 59^th Annual Conference & LMI Institute Annual Forum. Storytelling with FRED: Creating and Sharing Customizable Dashboards. June 5, 2019. 

The Ninth Annual AEA Conference on Teaching and Research in Economic Education (CTREE). FRED in the Intermediate and Advanced Classroom. May 2019

Women in Economics Symposium. Women in Economics Rock! FRED Workshop. February 2019

Association for University Business and Economic Research (AUBER) 2018 Fall Conference: FRED tools to access, analyze, and download data. October, 2018

The Eighth Annual AEA Conference on Teaching and Research in Economic Education (CTREE). FRED in the Classroom. May 2018

Selected Publications

Maria A. Arias, Charles S. Gascon, and David E Rapach. “Metro Business Cycles,” Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, 94(C), 90-108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2016.05.005

Also available as Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper 2014-046C. https://doi.org/10.20955/wp.2014.046 

Maria A. Arias and Yi Wen, “Relative Income Traps,” Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, First Quarter 2016, pp. 41-60. https://doi.org/10.20955/r.2016.41-60

Professional Memberships, Awards, Service

National Association of Business Economists (NABE), Member