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