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Benjamin Chabot

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About

Benjamin Chabot was an economist and senior policy advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

Bank Publications

Chicago Fed Letter

Is There a Trade-Off Between Low Bond Risk Premiums and Financial Stability?
Benjamin Chabot | 2014 | No. 325 | August Download
Detroit’s Bankruptcy: The Uncharted Waters of Chapter 9
Gene Amromin, Benjamin Chabot | 2013 | No. 316 | November Download

Economic Perspectives

The Overnight Money Market
Benjamin Chabot, Stefania D’Amico | 2015 | Vol. 39 | 3rd Quarter
A History of Large-Scale Asset Purchases before the Federal Reserve
Benjamin Chabot, Gabe Herman | 2013 | Vol. 37 | 4th Quarter Download

Working papers

Working Papers

The Federal Reserve’s Evolving Monetary Policy Implementation Framework: 1914-1923
Benjamin Chabot | 2017 | No. 2017-01 Download
Backtesting Systemic Risk Measures During Historical Bank Runs
Christian Brownlees, Benjamin Chabot, Eric Ghysels, Christopher Kurz | 2015 | No. 2015-09 | December Download

Momentum Trading, Return Chasing and Predictable Crashes

Benjamin Chabot, Eric Ghysels, Ravi Jagannathan | 2014 | No. 2014-27 | December Download
Bank Panics, Government Guarantees and the Long-Run Size of the Financial Sector: Evidence from Free-Banking America
Benjamin Chabot, Charles C. Moul | 2013 | No. 2013-03 | May Download
Institutions, the Cost of Capital, and Long-Run Economic Growth: Evidence from the 19th Century Capital Market
Ron Alquist, Benjamin Chabot | 2012 | No. 2012-17 | November Download
The Cost of Banking Panics in an Age before “Too Big to Fail”
Benjamin Chabot | 2011 | No. 2011-15 | November Download
Did Adhering to the Gold Standard Reduce the Cost of Capital?
Ron Alquist, Benjamin Chabot | 2010 | No. 2010-13 | January Download

Selected External Publications

Acceptances in Academic Journals and Books

Chabot, Benjamin, and Veronica Santarosa, 2017, “Don’t cry for Argentina (or other sovereign borrowers): Lessons from a previous era of sovereign debt contract enforcement,” Capital Markets Law Journal, Vol. 12, No. 1, January, pp. 9–37. 20170101060000

Presentations and Other Resources

Supplemental Figures to Publications

Chicago Fed Letter, No. 325

Appendix

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