Professional Experience

• • Senior Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

  • 2011 - present

• • Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

  • 2001 - 2011

• • Adjunct Professor

    Georgetown University

  • 2006 - 2010

Publications

• Carlson, Mark, Kris James Mitchener, and Gary Richardson (2011). "Arresting Banking Panics: Federal Reserve Liquidity Provision and the Forgotten Panic of 1929," Journal of Political Economy, vol. 119, no. 5, pp. 889-924.
• Carlson, Mark, Kurt F. Lewis, and William R. Nelson (2012). "Using Policy Intervention to Identify Financial Stress," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2012-02. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
• Carlson, Mark, and Jonathan D. Rose (2011). "Credit Availability and the Collapse of the Banking Sector in the 1930s," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2011-38. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
• Carlson, Mark A., Thomas B. King, and Kurt F. Lewis (2011). "Distress in the Financial Sector and Economic Activity," The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. Article 35.
• Carlson, Mark, Hui Shan, and Missaka Warusawitharana (2011). "Capital Ratios and Bank Lending: A Matched Bank Approach," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2011-34. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
• Carlson, Mark (2010). "Alternatives for Distressed Banks during the Great Depression," Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, vol. 42, no. 2-3, pp. 421-441.
• Carlson, Mark, and Kris James Mitchener (2010). "Branch Banking as a Device for Discipline: Competition and Bank Survivorship during the Great Depression," Journal of Political Economy, vol. 117, no. 2, pp. 165-210.
• Carlson, Mark, Kris James Mitchener, and Gary Richardson (2010). "Arresting Banking Panics: Fed Liquidity Provision and the Forgotten Panic of 1929," NBER Working Papers 16460. National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
• Carlson, Mark, and Jason Steinman (2008). "Market Conditions and Hedge Fund Survival," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2008-28. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
• Carlson, Mark (2007). "A Brief History of the 1987 Stock Market Crash: With a Discussion of the Federal Reserve Response," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2007-13. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
• Carlson, Mark, and Gretchen C. Weinbach (2007). "Profits and Balance Sheet Developments at U.S. Commercial Banks in 2006," Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol. 93, pp. A37-71.
• Carlson, Mark, and Galina B. Hale (2006). "Rating Agencies and Sovereign Debt Rollover," B.E. Journals in Macroeconomics: Topics in Macroeconomics, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 1-30.
• Carlson, Mark, and Kris James Mitchener (2006). "Branch Banking, Bank Competition, and Financial Stability," Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, vol. 38, no. 5, pp. 1293-1328.
• Carlson, Mark (2005). "Causes of Bank Suspensions in the Panic of 1893," Explorations in Economic History, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 56-80.
• Carlson, Mark (2004). "Are Branch Banks Better Survivors? Evidence from the Depression Era," Economic inquiry, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 111-126.
• Carlson, Mark, and Roberto Perli (2004). "Profits and Balance Sheet Developments at U.S. Commercial Banks in 2003," Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol. 90, no. 2, pp. 162-191.
• Basset, William F., and Mark Carlson (2002). "Profits and Balance Sheet Developments at U.S. Commercial Banks in 2001," Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol. 88, no. 6, pp. 259-288.
• Carlson, Mark, and Leonardo Hernandez (2002). "Determinants and Repercussions of the Composition of Capital Inflows," International Finance Discussion Papers 717. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).

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