Associate Economist
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, El Paso Branch

Jesus Cañas is an associate economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas in El Paso. Cañas has contributed to the writing and production of several Federal Reserve Bank publications such as Business Frontier, Crossroads, Vista, Houston Business, and Southwest Economy.

His research at the Fed focuses on issues pertaining to the Mexican economy, the maquiladora industry, and the U.S.–Mexico border economy. Cañas, in collaboration with Keith Phillips, senior economist at the San Antonio Branch, developed a set of coincident economic indexes for Texas–Mexico border metropolitan areas (El Paso, Brownsville, Laredo and McAllen), which they use to analyze business conditions in those regions.

Cañas holds a BA in economics and finance and MS in economics from the University of Texas at El Paso.