Marianna Kudlyak is a macro-economist with the research focus on labor markets and consumer finance. She works as Research Advisor (Economist and Bank Officer) at the FRB San Francisco. She is also Research Fellow at IZA, Research Fellow at CEPR, and Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

Marianna has been with the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco since May 2016. Prior to joining the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Marianna worked as an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond since August 2008. She was also a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley, UT Austin, University of Montreal and the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis.

Marianna has conducted research on unemployment, non-employment, wages, online job search, mortgage default, young borrowers and inequality. Marianna and co-authors have developed the Hornstein-Kudlyak-Lange Non-Employment Index, an alternative measure of resource utilization in the labor market, which is updated monthly and posted publicly via the St. Louis FRED database. She has published numerous articles in academic journals and Federal Reserve publications. Marianna ranks in the Top 5 percent economists worldwide (Last 10 years of publications) by IDEAS/RePEc.

Marianna received a Ph.D. and M.A. in Economics from the University of Rochester. Her research advisor is Mark Bils.