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Mark A. Calabria
Director of Financial Regulation Studies
Mark A. Calabria, is director of financial regulation studies at the Cato Institute. Before joining Cato in 2009, he spent six years as a member of the senior professional staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. In that position, Calabria handled issues related to housing, mortgage finance, economics, banking and insurance for Ranking Member Richard Shelby (R-AL). Prior to his service on Capitol Hill, Calabria served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Regulatory Affairs at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and also held a variety of positions at Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies, the National Association of Home Builders and the National Association of Realtors. Calabria has also been a Research Associate with the U.S. Census Bureau's Center for Economic Studies. He has extensive experience evaluating the impacts of legislative and regulatory proposals on financial and real estate markets, with particular emphasis on how policy changes in Washington affect low and moderate income households. He holds a doctorate in economics from George Mason University.
Media Contact: 202-789-5200
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E-Mail: mcalabria@cato.org
Books and Book Chapters
"Rules, Not Resources," Open Forum: Voices and Opinions from Leaders in Policy, the Field, and Academia (2012).
Cato Studies
"Regulation, Market Structure, and Role of the Credit Rating Agencies," by Emily McClintock Ekins and Mark A. Calabria, Policy Analysis no. 704, August 1, 2012.
"Fixing Mortgage Finance: What to Do with the Federal Housing Administration?," Briefing Paper no. 123, February 6, 2012.
"Fannie, Freddie, and the Subprime Mortgage Market," Briefing Paper no. 120, March 7, 2011.
Articles and Newsletters
"Supply: A Tale of Two Bubbles," Cato Journal, vol. 31 no. 3, Fall 2011.
"Economic Contractions in the United States: A Failure of Government," Cato Journal, Vol. 30, No. 2, Spring/Summer 2010.
"Would Consolidating Regulators Avoid the Next Crisis?," Lombard Street vol. 1 issue 16, November 16, 2009.
"Did Deregulation Cause the Financial Crisis?," Cato Policy Report, July/August 2009.
Opinion and Commentary
"In Obama's Second Term, What Will Happen to the Housing Market?," AOL News, November 7, 2012
"The CFPB: Problem Or Solution?," Mortgage Orb, August 17, 2012
"Dodd-Frank's Small-Business Lending Time Bomb," Washington Times, August 2, 2012
"Cheaper Credit Will Not Fix the Housing Market," US News and World Report, July 20, 2012
"Ohio Merits a Seat on the Fed," Cleveland Plain Dealer, June 2, 2012
Cato @ Liberty Blog Posts
"It Is The Same Banks that Repeatedly Get in Trouble," December 10, 2012
"What Filibuster 'Reform' Is Really About," November 27, 2012
"Getting Our Money Back from Fannie and Freddie," November 20, 2012
"Receivership Does NOT End GSEs," November 14, 2012
"Liability Is 'Wrong' Solution for Rating Agencies," November 13, 2012
Events
"Is the Federal Housing Administration the Next Bailout?," December 13, 2012 [Policy Forum]
"Why Some Firms Thrive While Others Fail: Governance and Management Lessons from the Crisis," October 18, 2012 [Book Forum]
"Europe's Crisis and the Welfare State: Lessons for the United States," October 10, 2012 [Conference]
"Should Investment Advisers Be Regulated, and If So, How?," September 25, 2012 [Policy Forum]
"Bringing Private Capital Back into Our Mortgage Market," July 26, 2012 [Policy Forum]
Speeches and Testimony
"Sarbanes-Oxley: 10 Years Later," Remarks at the COMMIT Forum, New York, NY. October 3, 2012.
"On "Strengthening the Housing Market and Minimizing Losses to Taxpayers," Congressional Testimony, March 15, 2012.
"On the Private Mortgage Market Investment Act, Part 2," Congressional Testimony, December 7, 2011.
"The Obama Administration's Response to the Housing Crisis," Congressional Testimony, October 6, 2011.
"Audit the Fed: Dodd-Frank, QE3, and Federal Reserve Transparency," Congressional Testimony, October 4, 2011.
Multimedia
Mark A. Calabria discusses the fiscal cliff on FBN's The Willis Report (November 30, 2012) [Media Highlights - TV, 07:12]
Mark Calabria discusses why cheap loans won't fix the housing market on The Blaze's Wilkow! (November 28, 2012) [Media Highlights - TV, 09:38]
Romney and the Mortgage Interest Deduction (November 2, 2012) [Daily Podcast, 06:34]
Mark A. Calabria discusses the Fed meeting on FBN's After the Bell (October 24, 2012) [Media Highlights - TV, 05:12]
Mark A. Calabria on why housing isn't part of the presidential debates on PBS (October 24, 2012) [Media Highlights - TV, 10:52]
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