Lakshmi Balasubramanyan |
Research Economist
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Lakshmi Balasubramanyan is a research economist in the Supervision and Regulation Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. She is primarily interested in the industrial organization of banking, the impact of banking regulation, and applied financial economics.
Prior to joining the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland in 2011, Dr. Balasubramanyan taught finance at Indiana State University. She earned her undergraduate and master of social science degrees in economics from the National University of Singapore. She holds an MS in finance and a PhD in applied economics, both from the Pennsylvania State University.