Someone else is going to be studying what's going on with financial markets. Somebody else is going to be studying what's going on with labor markets. So it takes all of us –one person is going to work on what's going on with consumption. Whereas I think of what we do here as a team sport, and that has led to I have different relationships with my colleagues, and I appreciate my colleagues in different ways. So when you're a professor, you are working on your research, and you're teaching your students, and you might have coauthors, and there's certainly other people who are doing the same things as you, but it's kind of an individual sport. I would say that one of the things that really struck me when I made that transition from academia into the Fed was how different it was to work collaboratively to produce policy analysis and thinking around economics. Paulson: You know, there are some parallels. Do you see any parallels in your current role to teaching students? You came to the Chicago Fed as an economist in 2001 after serving as an assistant professor of finance at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. We appreciate you sharing that information. And so you really get to see we're producing the content and then we're sharing the content, and really trying to help people understand what the Federal Reserve does, what the Chicago Fed does, make sure that folks who are interested in understanding what's going in the economy have good evidence-based materials to help them understand what's going on.Ĭaceres-Santamaria: Great. So all of our speeches, all of our external website, our publications, our social media presence and so on. So one of the things that I'm responsible for is the external communications component of the Chicago Fed. In addition to the research piece, we're also focused on telling our story externally. We conduct research in a wide array of economic questions ranging from community development all the way to what's going on in the stock market. I think of us as kind of like the research and development arm of the Chicago Fed. one of the main things that we do is prepare Charlie Evans for his role at the Federal Open Market Committee. And so we have responsibility for understanding economic and financial events and regional developments. So I lead a group of about 150 people and 10 teams. Paulson: So thanks for that question, yeah. You also oversee the department that provides analytics support for monetary policy making and conducts research on banking and financial markets, macroeconomics, microeconomics, and regional economics. I'm so excited to talk to you today.Ĭaceres-Santamaria: As we mentioned, you are the director of the Chicago Fed where you lead the research and policy analysis work. Her research has been published in leading scholarly journals, including “The Journal of Political Economy,” “Review of Economics and Statistics,” and “Review of Financial Studies.” And she is a Board member of the American Economic Association's Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession.Īnna, we are so glad to have you on the Women in Economics Podcast series from the St. Her research investigates how households and firms adapt to incomplete financial markets and how households' financial decision making is influenced by exposure to institutions and economic events, including financial crisis. Anna is an expert on financial markets and institutions with particular expertise in the insurance industry. In this episode, we hear from Anna Paulson, executive vice president and director of research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. I'm Andrea Caceres-Santamaria, your host. Louis Fed's Women in Economics Podcast Series where we interview women who are making their mark in the field of economics. Andrea Caceres-Santamaria: Welcome to the St.
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