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Yale - Project on Financial Stability

Research Associate

Cases:

• 1970 Commercial Paper Liquidity Crisis (Penn Central) - lots of archival research including microfilm at the library, communication with history department at the BoG and FRBNY.

• UK Special Liquidity Scheme - updated a previous version of this case for the Summer 2019 YPFS conference.

• 1987 Stock Market Crash - take a news article and FOIA published email exchange between the BoG and the PBOC and turn it into a case describing the Fed’s actions and planned actions.

• 1990’s Finland Arsenal (Asset Management Company) - I worked extensively with folks in the Finnish government who provided me with critical primary source documents.

• 1990’s Finland Capital Injection (in progress)

• 1990’s Sweden Capital Injection (in progress)

• Emergency Assistance to GMAC

• Restructuring of General Motors

• Market Liquidity case series project manager

Other:

• YPFS Systemic Risk Blog - scoured over 40 central banking and international regulators websites and collected relevant materials to be posted to the daily blog. Created the twitter account (@YPFSatYale) and took it from 0 to 1000 followers.

• Interviewed Paul Volcker - I researched his life and put together an executive summary of his personal and professional life. I organized suggested questions from Rosalind Wiggins and Andrew Metrick and accompanied them to the interview. I then edited the transcript and wrote the Lessons Learned document.

• Interviewed Ray Dalio - I read his two books and wrote all of the questions that were asked during the interview. I drafted the Lessons Learned document based on the transcript and worked with Dalio and his team to make sure it reflected his views accurately.

• Successfully acquired over 125 documents from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve via FOIA filings

• Fact Checked a half dozen chapters of “First Responders: Inside the US Strategy for Fighting the 2007-2009 Global Financial Crisis”. Assisted project manager Deborah McClellan in providing general information about the editors Bernanke, Geithner, Paulson.

• Gave a lecture with Christian McNamara to a Yale class on Fact Checking

• Helped design the system the team uses for writing the cases and preparing them for fact checks. Also assisted in the design of the team’s tracking spreadsheet.

COVID-19 work

• Designed intervention-tracker

• 41 Blog posts between March and August 2020

The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Statistical Reports Analyst - National Information Center:

• FR-Y6 coordinator

• FR-2420 coordinator (early morning, training, new team)

• Coordinated with bank examiner on CIBC purchase of Private Bank

• Two Front Page Data articles - deposit interest rates responsiveness to Fed Funds, branch closures in the midwest

• Presented at two NIC system trainings

• latino support volunteer group VP

• Money Museum tour guide

Rotational Analyst:

• Reserve Administration team

• Payment System Risk team (day-to-day borrowing limits)

• Monetary and Call Report team (FR-2900 deposit report)

Intern: NIC team

Brigham Young University - Idaho

Economics TA (Money and Banking, Financial Analytics)

Statistics TA (video tutorials, presented at conference)

Math Tutor (2 years tutor, 1 year supervisor)