Research
Interests
Real Estate Finance and Housing Economics
Applied Microeconomics
Finance (Consumption Portfolio Choice)
Real Estate Research Blog!
Chris Foote, Paul Willen, and I have decided to venture into the blogging world. The bi-weekly blog will be housed on the FRB Atlanta public website and will analyze topical academic research in the field of housing economics. For more information here is the link:
Journal Articles
"Price Discrimination and Business Cycle Risk" with Marco Cornia and Adam Hale Shapiro. 2011. Forthcoming Journal of Industrial Economics. "The Impact of Deregulation and Financial Innovation on Consumers: The Case of the Mortgage Market" with Harvey Rosen and Paul S. Willen. 2010. Journal of Finance, 65(1): 333--360.
"Reducing Foreclosures: No Easy Answers" with Chris Foote, Lorenz Goette, and Paul S. Willen. 2009. NBER Macroeconomics Annual, 24: 89--138.
“Subprime Mortgages, Foreclosures, and Urban Neighborhoods" with Paul S. Willen. 2009. The B.E. Journal in Economic Analysis and Policy, 9(3).
"Does Competition Reduce Price Dispersion? New Evidence from the Airline Industry" with Adam Hale Shapiro. 2009. Journal of Political Economy, 117(1): 1--37.
"Making Sense of the Subprime Crisis" with Andreas Lehnert, Shane M. Sherland, and Paul S. Willen. 2008. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Fall: 69--145.
"Negative Equity and Foreclosure: Theory and Evidence" with Chris Foote and Paul S. Willen. 2008. Journal of Urban Economics, 64(2): 234--245.
"Just the Facts: An Initial Analysis of Subprime's Role in the Housing Crisis" with Chris Foote, Lorenz Goette, and Paul S. Willen. 2008. Journal of Housing Economics, 17(4): 1--24.
Other Publications
"Why did so many people make so many ex-post bad decisions? The causes of the foreclosure crisis" (with Chris Foote and Paul Willen) 2012. Prepared for the conference, ``Rethinking Finance: New Perspectives on the Crisis," organized by Alan Blinder, Andrew Lo, and Robert Solow and sponsored by the Russell Sage and Century Foundations. "Reasonable people did disagree: Optimism and pessimism about the U.S. housing market before the crash" with Chris Foote and Paul Willen. 2010. Forthcoming in Reinventing the American Mortgage System: Rethink, Recover, Rebuild, coedited by Marvin Smith and Susan M. Wachter.
“The Economics of Foreclosure” 2010. New Palgrave Online Dictionary of Economics (2nd Edition), S. Durlauf and L. Blume (eds.). “Understanding the Foreclosure Crisis” with Stephen L. Ross and Paul S. Willen. 2010. Forthcoming in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (“Point/Counterpoint” section). "Mortgage Foreclosure Prevention Efforts" with Wenli Li. 2010. FRB Atlanta Economic Review, 95(2). ''Making Sense of the Subprime Crisis'' (with Kristopher Gerardi, Andreas Lehnert, and Paul Willen), in Robert W. Kolb, ed., Lessons from the Financial Crisis: Causes, Consequences, and Our Economic Future. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2010. Working Papers
"Do Borrower Rights Improve Borrower Outcomes? Evidence from the Foreclosure Process" with Lauren Lambie-Hanson and Paul Willen. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Working Paper 2011-16. (revision requested from Journal of Urban Economics)
"Why Don’t Lenders Renegotiate More Home Mortgages? Redefaults, Self-Cures and Securitization" with Manuel Adelino and Paul S. Willen. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Working Paper 2009-17. (revision requested from Journal of Monetary Economics)
"What Explains Differences in Foreclosure Rates? A Response to Piskorski, Seru, and Vig" with Manuel Adelino and Paul S. Willen. 2010. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Working Paper 2010-09. (revision requested from Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics) "The Effect of Social Entitlement Programs on Private Transfers: New Evidence of Crowding Out" with Yuping Tsai. 2010. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Working Paper 2010-15. (under review)
"Financial Literacy and Subprime Mortgage Delinquency: Evidence from a Survey Matched to Administrative Data" with Lorenz Goette and Stephan Meier. 2010. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Working Paper 2010-10.
"Decomposing the Foreclosure Crisis: House Price Depreciation versus Bad Underwriting" with Adam Hale Shapiro and Paul S. Willen. 2009. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Working Paper 2009-25.
"Subprime outcomes: Risky mortgages, homeownership experiences and foreclosures" with Adam Hale Shapiro and Paul S. Willen. 2007. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Working Paper, 07-15.
Work in Progress
"Foreclosure externalities: Some new evidence" (with Eric Rosenblatt, Paul Willen, and Vincent Yao)
"Mortgage Renegotiation and Asymmetric Information" (with Manuel Adelino and Paul Willen)
"Fannie Mae's and Freddie Mac's Affordable Housing Goals: Fuel for the Subprime Mortgage Crisis?" (with W. Scott Frame and Jim Wilcox) | Biographical Information
Kristopher S. Gerardi
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Financial Economist and Associate Policy Advisor
Office Address Research Department Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta 1000 Peachtree St., N.E. Atlanta, GA U.S.A. 30309 T: (404) 498-8561
Personal Information
Date of Birth: April 4, 1980
Place of Birth: Boston, MA
Citizenship: U.S.A.
Positions Held
1. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta: Financial Economist and Associate Policy Advisor, 2012 - 2. Associate Editor Journal of Monetary Economics 2010 - 3. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta: Research Economist and Assistant Policy Advisor, 2008 - 2011. 4. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston: Research Associate, 2005 - 2008. 5. Boston University Department of Economics: Teaching Assistant, 2002 - 2005. Education
1. Ph.D. in Economics (May 2008), Boston University. Advisor: Robert G. King
2. B.A. in Economics and Physics (May 2002), Hamilton College. Advisors: Gordon L. Jones (physics), Ann Owen (economics)
Recent Discussions
"Recourse and Residential Mortgage Default: Theory and Evidence from U.S. States," Andre C. Ghent and Marianna Kudlyak
University of Wisconsin-Madison and Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Housing-Labor-Macro-Urban Conference (9/25/2009)
"The Impact of Secondary Mortgage Market Activity on the Expansion of Subprime Credit," Taylor Nadauld and Shane Sherlund
FRB Atlanta Day Ahead Conference (1/2/2010)
"Mortgage Modification and Strategic Default: Evidence from a Legal Settlement with Countrywide," C. Mayer, T. Piskorski, E. Morrison, and A. Gupta, Conference on Household Heterogeneity and Household Finance, FRB Cleveland (9/9/2010)
"Real Estate Price Measurement and Stability Crises," Nancy Wallace, Workshop on Housing Markets, Monetary Policy and Financial Stability, Stockholm Sweden (11/8/2010)
Recent Presentations
American Council on Consumer Interests (ACCI) 2010 Annual Conference at FRB Atlanta. "Financial Literacy and Subprime Mortgage Delinquency: Evidence from a Survey Matched to Administrative Data" April 2010.
Seminar at the Sveriges/Riksbank in Stockholm Sweden, November 2010.
Presentation at the Housing/Urban/Labor Markets (HULM) Conference at FRB Atlanta. "Financial Literacy and Subprime Mortgage Delinquency: Evidence from a Survey Matched to Administrative Data" March 2011.
Presentation at The Irish Mortgage Market in Context Conference in Dublin, Ireland, October 2011
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