Economist
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
1 Memorial Drive
Kansas City, MO 64198
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Curriculum Vitae

Nada Mora is an Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. She joined the Bank in May 2009. Her research currently focuses on asymmetric information in the syndicated loan market. She has also studied the effect of bank credit on real estate prices, the implications of dollarization on bank lending and firms access to finance, and the role of sovereign credit ratings. She received her Ph.D. in economics from MIT in 2003, was an assistant professor at the American University of Beirut, and was an economist at the Bank of England.

• "Shocks to Bank Capital: Evidence from UK Banks At Home and Away" with Andrew Logan, Applied Economics, forthcoming.
• "Funding Liquidity Risk in a Quantitative Model of Systemic Stability" with David Aikman, Piergiorgio Alessandri, Bruno Eklund, Prasanna Gai, Sujit Kapadia, Elizabeth Martin, Gabriel Sterne, and Matthew Willison, Central Bank of Chile Book Series on Central Banking, Analysis, and Economic Policies, Volume XV, forthcoming.
• "Towards a Framework for Quantifying Systemic Stability"
  with Piergiorgio Alessandri, Prasanna Gai, Sujit Kapadia, and Claus Puhr, International Journal of Central Banking, Volume 5,3, September 2009.
• "The Effect of Bank Credit on Asset Prices: Evidence from the Japanese Real Estate Boom during the 1980s"
  Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, Volume 40, 1, February 2008
• "Sovereign Credit Ratings: Guilty beyond Reasonable Doubt?"
  Journal of Banking and Finance, Volume 30, Issue 7, July 2006, pages 2041 ? 2062
• "What Moves Capital to Transition Economies?"
  with Pietro Garibaldi, Ratna Sahay and Jeromin Zettelmeyer. IMF Staff Papers, Vol. 48, Special Transition Issue, 2002

• "What Determines Creditor Recovery Rates?"
  Second Quarter 2012
• "Can Banks Provide Liquidity in a Financial Crisis?"
  Third Quarter 2010

• "Are Banks Passive Liquidity Backstops? Deposit Rates and Flows during the 2007-2009 Crisis
  with Viral V. Acharya, RWP 11-06
• "Lender Exposure and Effort in the Syndicated Loan Market"
  RWP 10-12

• "Financial Crisis Recovery & Solutions"
  June 7, 2010.