David Beckworth

Mercatus Center at George Mason University

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David is a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and director of the Mercatus Center’s monetary policy program. His primary research focuses on the targets, tools, operating system, and governance of the Federal Reserve, and has included work on the US Treasury market, the safe asset shortage, and dollar dominance. Formerly an international economist at the US Department of the Treasury, he earned his PhD in economics from the University of Georgia.