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Randall S. Kroszner

Randall S. Kroszner

· Norman R. Bobins Professor of Economics

University of Chicago · Macroeconomics

Active 1987–2017

h-index37
Citations5.6k
Papers299
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About

Randall S. Kroszner is the Norman R. Bobins Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He has served as Deputy Dean for Executive Programs and has been a faculty member at Booth since 1990. His research interests include regulation of financial institutions, international financial crises, the Great Depression, monetary economics, corporate governance, debt restructuring, bankruptcy, and political economy. Kroszner previously served as a Governor of the Federal Reserve System from 2006 to 2009, where he chaired committees on Supervision and Regulation of Banking Institutions and Consumer and Community Affairs. In this capacity, he played a leading role in developing responses to the financial crisis and initiatives to improve consumer protection and disclosure, including rules related to home mortgages and credit cards. He represented the Federal Reserve on international forums such as the Financial Stability Forum and the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, and was involved in policy formulation on a wide range of economic issues during his tenure on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers from 2001 to 2003. Kroszner has held various academic and policy positions, including director of the George J. Stigler Center, editor of the Journal of Law & Economics, and research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has been a visiting scholar at several institutions worldwide and has received numerous honors, including…

Research topics

  • Business
  • Economics
  • Financial system
  • Finance
  • Political science

Selected publications

  • Regulation and Deregulation of the U.S. Banking Industry: Causes, Consequences, and Implications for the Future

    NBER Chapters · 2014-01-01 · 54 citations

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  • A Review of Bank Funding Cost Differentials

    Journal of Financial Services Research · 2016-06-01 · 50 citations

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  • The Economic Nature of the Firm

    RePEc: Research Papers in Economics · 2009-01-01 · 41 citations

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    This book brings together classic writings on the economic nature and organization of firms, including works by Ronald Coase, Oliver Williamson, and Michael Jensen and William Meckling, as well as more recent contributions by Paul Milgrom, Bengt Holmstrom, John Roberts, Oliver Hart, Luigi Zingales, and others. Part I explores the general theme of the firm's nature and place in the market economy; Part II addresses the question of which transactions are integrated under a firm's roof and what lim…

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  • Reforming U.S. Financial Markets

    The MIT Press eBooks · 2011-01-01 · 26 citations

    book1st authorCorresponding

    Two top economists outline distinctive approaches to post-crisis financial reform.Over the last few years, the financial sector has experienced its worst crisis since the 1930s. The collapse of major firms, the decline in asset values, the interruption of credit flows, the loss of confidence in firms and credit market instruments, the intervention by governments and central banks: all were extraordinary in scale and scope. In this book, leading economists Randall Kroszner and Robert Shiller disc…

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  • Hitting Stride: The 2nd Americas Alternative Finance Industry Report

    SSRN Electronic Journal · 2017-01-01 · 9 citations

    articleOpen access
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Education

  • B.A., Economics

    University of Chicago

    1985

  • M.A., Public Policy

    University of Chicago

    1987

  • Ph.D., Economics

    University of Chicago

    1990

Awards & honors

  • Brattle Prize for best corporate finance paper in the Journa…

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