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
Econometrica, Vol. 91, No. 5 (September 2023), pp. 1803-1840
with Satyajit Chatterjee, Dean Corbae, and Jose-Victor Rios-Rull
Journal Link Online Appendix Additional Materials NBER Working Paper
Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 93, Iss. 3 (May 2026), pp. 1635-1670
Journal Link Working Paper (with Appendices)
ECB Working Paper Duke School of Law FinReg Blog Post winner, ECB Lamfalussy Fellowship
Journal of Financial Economics , Vol. 170 (August 2025)
Journal Link Slides Working Paper (with Appendices)
JPE: Macro (forthcoming)
with Felicia Ionescu
Journal Link Working Paper (with Appendices)
prepared for 2025 NBER Macro Annual
with Satyajit Chatterjee, Dean Corbae, and Jose-Victor Rios-Rull
(June 2023, updated draft coming soon)
with Luigi-Maria Briglia, Satyajit Chatterjee, Dean Corbae, and Jose-Victor Rios-Rull
(Spring 2023, updated draft focused on macro effects coming soon)
with Felicia Ionescu
(May 2024, very preliminary)
Bank Credit Supply: Measurement and Implications
with David Glancy and Felicia Ionescu
Who are the Credit Revolvers? An Empirical and Theoretical Investigation
with Felicia Ionescu and Gajendran Raveendranathan