Remarks at the Harvard Law School's Symposium on Building the Financial System of the 21st Century, Armonk, New York.

Remarks at the Harvard Law School's Symposium on Building the Financial System of the 21st Century, Armonk, New York.

Remarks at the 2011 Bretton Woods Committee International Council Meeting, Washington, D.C.>

It has been 75 years since the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) was established and it is again serving as the primary backstop in the current housing market downturn, insuring roughly 39 percent of all new purchase loans. This countercyclical role for the FHA, with respect to the housing...

Shadow banks conduct credit intermediation without direct, explicit access to public sources of liquidity and credit guarantees. Shadow banks contributed to the credit boom in the early 2000s and collapsed during the financial crisis of 2007-09. We review the rapidly growing literature on shadow...

Remarks at the Economic Club of New York, New York City.

It has been 75 years since the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) was established and it is again serving as the primary backstop in the current housing market downturn, insuring roughly 39 percent of all new purchase loans. This countercyclical role for the FHA, with respect to the housing...