Academic and Policy Journals

TBA Trading and Liquidity in the Agency MBS Market
With Joshua Wright
Federal Reserve Bank of New York Economic Policy Review, Forthcoming, 2013
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Barriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence From India
With Shawn Cole, Xavier Giné, Jeremy Tobacman, Petia Topalova and Robert Townsend
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 5(1), 104-135, 2013
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A Structural View of U.S. Bank Holding Companies
With Dafna Avraham and Patricia Selvaggi
Federal Reserve Bank of New York Economic Policy Review, Volume 18, Number 2, July 2012
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Liberty Street Economics Blog Post ››
Technical Appendix ››

Credit Ratings and Security Prices in the Subprime MBS Market
With Adam Ashcraft, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham and Peter Hull
American Economic Review (Papers and Proceedings), 101(3), 115-19, 2011
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Why Is the Market Share of Adjustable-Rate Mortgages So Low?
With Emanuel Moench and Diego Aragon
Federal Reserve Bank of New York Current Issues in Economics and Finance, Volume 16, Number 8, December 2010
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Liberty Street Economics Blog Post  ››

Patterns of Rainfall Insurance Participation in Rural India
With Xavier Giné and Robert Townsend
World Bank Economic Review, 22, 539-66, 2008
Published version (subscription required)  
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How and Why Do Small Firms Manage Interest Rate Risk?
Journal of Financial Economics, 87, 446-470. 2008
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Statistical Analysis of Rainfall Insurance Payouts in Southern India
With Xavier Giné and Robert Townsend
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 89, 1248-54, 2007
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Labor Market Adjustment: Evidence on Interstate Labor Mobility
With Guy Debelle
Australian Economic Review, 32, 249-263, 1999
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Is the Phillips Curve A Curve? Some Evidence and Implications for Australia
With Guy Debelle
Economic Record, 74, 384-98, 1998
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Book Chapters

A Private Lender Cooperative Model for Residential Mortgage Finance in The American Mortgage System: Crisis and Reform
With Toni Dechario, Patricia Mosser, Joseph Tracy and Joshua Wright
S. Wachter and M. Smith (eds.), University of Pennsylvania Press, Forthcoming
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Microinsurance: A Case Study of the Indian Rainfall Index Insurance Market in Handbook of the Indian Economy
With Xavier Giné, Lev Menand and Robert Townsend
Chetan Ghate (ed.), Oxford University Press, Forthcoming
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Rainfall Insurance in Semi-Arid India: Contract Design, Household Participation and Future Prospects in Weather Risk Management
With Xavier Giné and Robert Townsend
K. Tang (ed.), RiskBooks, London, UK, 2010

The Macroeconomics of Australian Unemployment in Unemployment and the Australian Labour Market
With Guy Debelle
J. Borland and G. Debelle (eds.), Reserve Bank of Australia, 1998

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