Charles W. Calomiris
Professor Emeritus, Financial Institutions, Columbia Business School; Professor Emeritus, International and Public Affairs, Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs; and Chief Economist, Mina Analytics
Professor Charles W. Calomiris is Henry Kaufman Professor Emeritus of Financial Institutions in the Finance Department at Columbia Business School, Professor Emeritus of International and Public Affairs at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs, and Chief Economist of Mina Analytics. He recently served as Chief Economist and Senior Deputy Comptroller at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Professor Calomiris is a member of the Financial Economists Roundtable and the Shadow Open Market Committee, and is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He was a Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he co-directed the Initiative on Regulation and the Rule of Law for many years. He was a member of the Advisory Scientific Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board, and has been a visiting scholar or consultant to many central banks and regulatory agencies. Professor Calomiris received a BA in economics from Yale and a PhD in economics from Stanford University.
He is the author of hundreds of academic articles and books. His recent writings include studies using textual analysis to measure the consequences of risk for international equity markets, foreign exchange markets, regulatory costs, and monetary policy actions, studies of the consequences for investment and growth of capital inflows into emerging economies, and studies of the origins of banking crises and the role of government policies in magnifying or mitigating systemic risk, including his recent books, Fragile By Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit (with Stephen Haber), Princeton, 2014, and Reforming Financial Regulation After Dodd-Frank, Manhattan Institute, 2017, and two edited volumes, Rules for the Lender of Last Resort, Journal of Financial Intermediation, 2016, and Assessing Banking Regulation During the Obama Era, Journal of Financial Intermediation, 2018. He currently is working on a book entitled Useless History and the Future of Banking.
Professor Emeritus, Financial Institutions, Columbia Business School; Professor Emeritus, International and Public Affairs, Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs; and Chief Economist, Mina Analytics
Professor Charles W. Calomiris is Henry Kaufman Professor Emeritus of Financial Institutions in the Finance Department at Columbia Business School, Professor Emeritus of International and Public Affairs at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs, and Chief Economist of Mina Analytics. He recently served as Chief Economist and Senior Deputy Comptroller at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Professor Calomiris is a member of the Financial Economists Roundtable and the Shadow Open Market Committee, and is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He was a Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he co-directed the Initiative on Regulation and the Rule of Law for many years. He was a member of the Advisory Scientific Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board, and has been a visiting scholar or consultant to many central banks and regulatory agencies. Professor Calomiris received a BA in economics from Yale and a PhD in economics from Stanford University.
He is the author of hundreds of academic articles and books. His recent writings include studies using textual analysis to measure the consequences of risk for international equity markets, foreign exchange markets, regulatory costs, and monetary policy actions, studies of the consequences for investment and growth of capital inflows into emerging economies, and studies of the origins of banking crises and the role of government policies in magnifying or mitigating systemic risk, including his recent books, Fragile By Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit (with Stephen Haber), Princeton, 2014, and Reforming Financial Regulation After Dodd-Frank, Manhattan Institute, 2017, and two edited volumes, Rules for the Lender of Last Resort, Journal of Financial Intermediation, 2016, and Assessing Banking Regulation During the Obama Era, Journal of Financial Intermediation, 2018. He currently is working on a book entitled Useless History and the Future of Banking.