I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at The Ohio State University. My research focuses on how financial regulations, markets, and contracts shape macroeconomic outcomes.
Email: dempsey [dot] 164 [at] osu [dot] edu
Office: 444 Arps Hall
A Quantitative Theory of the Credit Score
Econometrica, Vol. 91, No. 5 (September 2023), pp. 1803-1840
with Satyajit Chatterjee, Dean Corbae, and Jose-Victor Rios-Rull
Online Appendix Additional Materials NBER Working Paper
Capital Requirements with Non-Bank Finance
Review of Economic Studies (accepted January 2025)
ECB Working Paper Duke School of Law FinReg Blog Post winner, ECB Lamfalussy Fellowship
A Quantitative Analysis of Bank Lending Relationships
Journal of Financial Economics , Vol. 170 (August 2025)
with Miguel Faria-e-Castro Slides
Default Risk and Pricing in the U.S. Credit Card Market
JPE: Macro (accepted April 2025)
with Felicia Ionescu (original version: Borrowing Premia in Unsecured Credit Markets)
Credit Scores and Inequality Across the Life Cycle
prepared for 2025 NBER Macro Annual
with Satyajit Chatterjee, Dean Corbae, and Jose-Victor Rios-Rull
Saving for a Sunny Day: An Alternative Theory of Precautionary Savings
(June 2023, updated draft coming soon)
with Luigi-Maria Briglia, Satyajit Chatterjee, Dean Corbae, and Jose-Victor Rios-Rull
Financial Stability with Lending Relationships
(May 2024, very preliminary)
What are Bank Lending Standards?
(coming soon)
with David Glancy and Felicia Ionescu
Who are the Credit Revolvers? An Empirical and Theoretical Investigation
(coming soon)
with Felicia Ionescu and Gajendran Raveendranathan