Professional Experience

• • Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

  • 2010 - present

Publications

• Berrospide, Jose M., Ralf Meisenzahl, and Briana D. Sullivan (2012). "Credit Line use and Availability in the Financial Crisis: The Importance of Hedging," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2012-27. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
• Meisenzahl, Ralf R., and Joel Mokyr (2012). "The Rate and Direction of Invention in the British Industrial Revolution: Incentives and Institutions," in Lerner, Josh, Scott Stern eds., The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited, Chapter 9. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 443-479.
• Edge, Rochelle M., and Ralf R. Meisenzahl (2011). "The Unreliability of Credit-to-GDP Ratio Gaps in Real Time: Implications for Countercyclical Capital Buffers," International Journal of Central Banking, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 261-298.
• Meisenzahl, Ralf R., and Joel Mokyr (2011). "The Rate and Direction of Invention in the British Industrial Revolution: Incentives and Institutions," NBER Working Paper 16993. National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
• Meisenzahl, Ralf R. (2011). "Verifying the State of Financing Constraints: Evidence from U.S. Business Credit Contracts," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2011-04. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
• Meisenzahl, Ralf R., Bent Nowack, Michael Reinhard, Hans-Guenther Vieweg, and Alfons Weichenrieder (2003). Financial markets, corporate governance and information technologies. Muenchen: ifo Beitraege zur Wirtschaftsforschung.

Presentations

• conference

  October 2012

  Financial Management Association Meeting

  Credit Line Use and Availability in the Financial Crisis: The Importance of Hedging

• conference

  August 2012

  European Meeting of the Econometric Society

  Credit Line Use and Availability in the Financial Crisis: The Importance of Hedging

• seminar

  August 2012

  Bank for International Settlements

  Credit Line Use and Availability in the Financial Crisis: The Importance of Hedging

• conference

  August 2012

  European Economic Associating Meeting

  Verifying the State of Financing Constraints: Evidence from U.S. Business Credit Contracts

• conference

  June2012

  Society of Computational Economics Meeting

  Verifying the State of Financing Constraints: Evidence from U.S. Business Credit Contracts

• seminar

  June 2012

  European Central Bank

  Credit Line Use and Availability in the Financial Crisis: The Importance of Hedging

• conference

  March 2012

  Royal Economic Society Meeting

  Verifying the State of Financing Constraints: Evidence from U.S. Business Credit Contracts

• seminar

  March 2012

  University of Exeter - Business School

  Verifying the State of Financing Constraints: Evidence from U.S. Business Credit Contracts

• seminar

  March 2012

  Royal Holloway University of London

  Verifying the State of Financing Constraints: Evidence from U.S. Business Credit Contracts

• conference

  January 2012

  American Economic Association Meeting

  Verifying the State of Financing Constraints: Evidence from U.S. Business Credit Contracts

• conference

  January 2012

  Federal Reserve "Day Ahead" Conference on Financial Markets and Inistuitions

  The Unreliability of Credit-to-GDP Ratio Gaps in Real-Time: Implications for Countercyclical Capital Buffers

• conference

  October 2011

  Financial Management Association Meeting

  Verifying the State of Financing Constraints: Evidence from U.S. Business Credit Contracts

• conference

  June 2011

  Financial Intermediation Research Society Meeting

  Verifying the State of Financing Constraints: Evidence from U.S. Business Credit Contracts

• seminar

  June 2011

  Reserve Bank of Australia

  The Unreliability of Credit-to-GDP Ratio Gaps in Real-Time: Implications for Countercyclical Capital Buffers

• seminar

  June 2011

  Reserve Bank of New Zealand

  The Unreliability of Credit-to-GDP Ratio Gaps in Real-Time: Implications for Countercyclical Capital Buffers

• conference

  June 2011

  Conference in Honor of Joel Mokyr

  How Britain Lost Its Competitive Edge: Competence in the Second Industrial Revolution

• seminar

  April 2011

  University of Luxembourg

  The Rate and Direction of Invention in the British Industrial Revolution: Incentives and Institutions

• seminar

  April 2011

  University of Mainz

  Verifying the State of Financing Constraints: Evidence from U.S. Business Credit Contracts

• conference

  April 2011

  Royal Economic Society Meeting

  Can Financing Constraints Explain the Evolution of the Firm Size Distribution: New Evidence from U.S. Small Businesses

• conference

  May 2011

  RTF Workshop at Bank of Mexico

  The Unreliability of Credit-to-GDP Ratio Gaps in Real-Time: Implications for Countercyclical Capital Buffers

• conference

  October 2010

  NBER Conference, "The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity: A New Agenda"

  The Rate and Direction of Invention in the British Industrial Revolution: Incentives and Institutions

• discussion

  October 2011

  Financial Management Association Meeting

  Discussion of "Equity Short Interest and the Cost of Corporate Debt" by Ertuk and Nejadmaleyeri

• discussion

  October 2011

  Financial Management Association Meeting

  Discussion of "Financial Shocks and Firm Performance: Evidence from Systemic Banking Crises" by Aivazian, Rahaman, and Sun

• discussion

  June 2011

  Financial Intermediation Research Society Meeting

  Discussion of "Capital Structure and the Redeployability of Tangible Assets" by Campello and Giambona

• discussion

  October 2010

  Financial Management Association Meeting

  Discussion of "Returns to Retail Banking and Payments" by Hasan, Schmiedel, and Song

Other Activities