Elizabeth Kepner
Business Economist
About
Elizabeth Kepner is a business economist in the economic research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. She monitors regional economic conditions through District-wide roundtables, and contributes to and edits the Seventh District's Beige Book submission. She is a contributing author to the Bank's Chicago Fed Insights and Fed Letter series. She also contributes to the AgLetter – the Chicago Fed's quarterly agricultural publication.
Kepner has an M.A. in Public Policy from the University of Chicago's Harris School and a B.S. in Quantitative Economics & Econometrics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Bank Publications
AgLetter
David Oppedahl, Elizabeth Kepner | 2025 | No. 2008 | May
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David Oppedahl, Elizabeth Kepner | 2025 | No. 2007 | February
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David Oppedahl, Elizabeth Kepner | 2024 | No. 2006 | November
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David Oppedahl, Elizabeth Kepner | 2024 | No. 2005 | August
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David Oppedahl, Elizabeth Kepner | 2024 | No. 2003 | February
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Chicago Fed Insights
Elizabeth Kepner, Thomas Walstrum | 2025 | June
Elizabeth Kepner, Thomas Walstrum | 2025 | February
Elizabeth Kepner, Thomas Walstrum | 2024 | August
Kristin Butcher, Elizabeth Kepner, Kelli Marquardt, Brianna Smith | 2024 | June
Maude Toussaint-Comeau, Rick Mattoon, Elizabeth Kepner | 2024 | February
Elizabeth Kepner, Thomas Walstrum | 2024 | February
Elizabeth Kepner | 2023 | May
Elizabeth Kepner | 2023 | May
Elizabeth Kepner, Leslie McGranahan | 2022 | March
Chicago Fed Letter
Levi Bognar, Jason Faberman, Elizabeth Kepner, Emma LaGuardia | 2023 | No. 491 | December
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Elizabeth Kepner, Rick Mattoon | 2023 | No. 489 | November
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Michigan Economy Blog
Elizabeth Kepner, Rick Mattoon | 2021 | August
What Does Detroit’s 2019 Per Capita Income Growth Tell Us About the City’s Pre-Pandemic Renaissance?
Scott A. Brave, Ross Cole, Elizabeth Kepner, Leslie McGranahan, Paul Traub | 2021 | May
Midwest Economy Blog
Elizabeth Kepner, Thomas Walstrum | 2023 | August
Elizabeth Kepner, Thomas Walstrum | 2023 | February
Martin Lavelle, Elizabeth Kepner | 2022 | July
