Anna Paulson

Anna Paulson

Vice President and Director of Financial Research

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Anna Paulson is a vice president and director of financial research in the economic research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Previously, she served as vice president in the financial markets group.

 

Prior to her appointment in 2009 to the financial markets group, she was a senior financial economist in the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Paulson's research focuses on how households cope with risk and incomplete financial markets. Her current research includes studies of the relationship between institutions and financial development and the dynamics of entrepreneurship.

 

Paulson's research has been published in scholarly journals, including the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economics and Statistics and the Journal of Corporate Finance. Before joining the Fed in November 2001, Paulson was an assistant professor in the finance department at the Kellogg School of Management.

 

She received a B.A. from Carleton College and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago.

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Academic Publications

“Immigrants’ Access to Financial Services and Asset Accumulation,” with Una Okonkwo Osili, in Insufficient Funds: Savings, Assets, Credit and Banking Among Low-Income Households, Barr, Michael and Rebecca Blank editors. New York: Russell Sage Foundation Press, 2009.

 

“What Can We Learn about Financial Access from U.S. Immigrants? The Role of Country of Origin Institutions and Immigrant Beliefs” with Una Okonkwo Osili, World Bank Economic Review, 2008, 22: 431-455.

 

“Institutions and Financial Development: Evidence from International Migrants in the United States” with Una Okonkwo Osili, Review of Economics and Statistics, Volume 90. Number 3, August 2008.

 

“The Financial Assimilation of an Immigrant Group in the U.S.: Evidence on the Use of Checking and Savings Accounts, Credit Cards and Currency Exchanges,” with Sherrie Rhine, Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Vol 29 June 2008: 264 – 278.

 

Review of “Insurance Against Poverty” edited by Stefan Dercon, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Volume 55, Number 3, April 2007.

 

“Distinguishing Limited Liability from Moral Hazard in a Model of Entrepreneurship,” with Robert Townsend and Alexander Karaivanov, Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 114 (1) February 2006, 100-144.

 

“Regulatory Incentives and Consolidation: The Case of Commercial Bank Mergers and the Community Reinvestment Act” with Raphael Bostic, Hamid Mehran and Marc Saidenberg, Advances in Economic Analysis and Policy: Vol 5: No. 1, Article 2, 2005.

 

“Entrepreneurship and Financial Constraints in Thailand” with Robert Townsend, Journal of Corporate Finance, Volume 10, Issue 2 (March 2004), 229-326.

 

“A Reconsideration of the (In)Sensitivity of Tests of the Intertemporal Allocation of Consumption to Near Rational Alternatives,” with Edward L. Glaeser, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 21, 1997.

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