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Banking Supervision and Regulation Staff | Quantitative Risk Management Section
photograph of Francisco B. Covas
Francisco B. Covas
Economist
Quantitative Risk Management Section
Division of Banking Supervision and Regulation

Contact Information
202-452-3497
francisco.b.covas@frb.gov

Fields of Interest
Macroeconomics
Econometrics and Statistics
Risk Management

Education
Ph.D., Economics, University California, San Diego, 2004
B.A., Economics, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 1997

Professional Experience
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 2007-present
Senior Analyst, Bank of Canada, 2004-2007

Selected Publications

  • ''The Cyclical Behavior of Debt and Equity Finance'' (with Wouter J. Den Haan), American Economic Review (forthcoming) (2009).
  • ''Uninsured Idiosyncratic Production Risk with Borrowing Constraints ,'' Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, vol. 30 (November 2006), pp. 2167-90.

Last update: January 26, 2010