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202-736-1971
Song.Han@frb.gov
Song.Han@frb.gov
Education
- Ph.D., Money and Banking, Finance, University of Chicago, 1998
- B.A., Economics, People's University of China, 1990
Current Research Topics
- Issues on the Over-the-Counter Financial Markets
Fields of Interest
Professional Experience
Economist
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
- 2001 - present
Visiting Assistant Professor
University of Rochester
- 2000 - 2001
Publications
- Han, Song (2011). "Creditor Learning and Discrimination in Lending," Journal of Financial Services Research, vol. 40, no. 1-2, pp. 1-27.
- Han, Song, and Geng Li (2011). "Household Borrowing After Personal Bankruptcy," Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, vol. 43, no. 2-3, pp. 491-517.
- Han, Song, Benjamin J. Keys, and Geng Li (2011). "Credit Supply to Personal Bankruptcy Filers," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2011-29. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
- Han, Song, and Dan Li (2010). "The Fragiligy of Discretionary Liquidity Provision: Lessons from the Collapse of the Auction Rate Securities Market," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2010-50. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
- Han, Song, and Casey B. Mulligan (2008). "Inflation and the Size of Government," Economic Review, vol. 90, no. 3, pp. 245-267.
- Han, Song, and Hao Zhou (2008). "Effects of Liquidity on the Nondefault Component of Corporate Yield Spreads: Evidence from Intraday Transactions Data," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2008-40. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
- Han, Song, and Wenli Li (2007). "Fresh Start Or Head Start? the Effect of Filing for Personal Bankruptcy on Work Effort," Journal of Financial Services Research, vol. 31, no. 2-3, pp. 123-152.
- Covitz, Daniel M., Song Han, and Beth Anne Wilson (2006). "Are Longer Bankruptcies really More Costly?" Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2006-27. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
- Covitz, Daniel, and Song Han (2005). "An Empirical Analysis of Bond Recovery Rates: Exploring a Structural View of Default," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2005-10. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
- Han, Song (2004). "Discrimination in Lending: Theory and Evidence," Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 5-46.
- Han, Song, and Casey B. Mulligan (2001). "Human Capital, Heterogeneity and Estimated Degrees of Intergenerational Mobility," Economic Journal, vol. 111, no. 470, pp. 207-243.
- Han, Song (1998). "Credit Risk, Discrimination, and Regulation in Credit Markets," Ph.D dissertation, University of Chicago.
Presentations
conference
September 23, 2011
Consumer Credit and Payment Conference, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Credit Supply to Personal Bankruptcy Filers
seminar
May 26, 2011
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
Credit Supply to Personal Bankruptcy Filers
conference
May 6, 2011
Annual Bank Structure and Competition Conference, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Credit Supply to Personal Bankruptcy Filers
conference
July 7, 2011
China International Conference in Finance
Institutional Herding in the Corporate Bond Market
seminar
March 2010
Municipal Bond Rulemaking Board
The Fragility of Discretionary Liquidity Support
conference
July 2009
NBER Summer Institute
Household Borrowing after Filing for Personal Bankruptcy
conference
July 11, 2009
Financial Crisis Conference, Yale University
Discussing "Why Did Auctions Fail?" by McDonnell and Saretto
conference
June, 2009
Mitsui Finance Symposium, University of Michigan
The Fragility of Discretionary Liquidity Support
conference
May 10, 2008
The 11th Annual Wharton/Oliver Wyman Risk Roundable
Market Works: Lessons from the Auction Rate Municipal Bond Market (Invited Talk)
conference
March 2008
The Risk Management Conference at Mont Tremblant
The Effect of Liquidity on the Non-Default Component of Corporate Bond Yield Spreads
conference
May 2008
HEC Conference on Credit and Operational Risk
The Effect of Liquidity on the Non-Default Component of Corporate Bond Yield Spreads
seminar
November 2007
Bank for International Settlement
The Effect of Liquidity on the Non-Default Component of Corporate Bond Yield Spreads
Other Activities
Awards
2001
Royal Economic Society
The Economic Journal Best Paper Prize
Conference Organization
March 22-23, 2007 Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Credit Risk and Credit Derivatives
Co-organizer
Referee
- The American Economic Review
- Journal of European Economic Association
- Journal of Financial Services Research
- Journal of Money, Credit and Banking
- Journal of Political Economy
- National Science Foundation
Last update:
July 16, 2012