Contact Information
202-736-1971
song.han@frb.gov

Fields of Interest
Asset Pricing
Corporate Finance
Financial Markets

Education
Ph.D., Money and Banking, Finance, University of Chicago, 1998
B.A., Economics, The People's University of China, 1990

Professional Experience
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 2001-present
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Rochester, 2000-2001

Selected Publications

• ''Fresh Start or Head Start? The Effect of Filing for Personal Bankruptcy on Work Effort'' (with Wenli Li), Journal of Financial Services Research (forthcoming 2006).
• Are Longer Bankruptcies Really More Costly? (with Daniel M. Covitz and Beth Anne Wilson), Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2006-27. Washington: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 2006.
• An Empirical Analysis of Bond Recovery Rates: Exploring A Structural View of Default (with Daniel M. Covitz), Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2005-10. Washington: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 2005.
• ''Discrimination in Lending: Theory and Evidence,'' Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, vol. 29 (July 2004), pp. 5-46.
• On the Economics of Discrimination in Credit Markets, Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2002-2. Washington: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 2002.
• Inflation and the Size of Government (with Casey B. Mulligan), Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2002-1. Washington: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 2002.
• ''Human Capital, Heterogeneity and Estimated Degrees of Intergenerational Mobility'' (with Casey B. Mulligan), Economic Journal, vol. 111 (April 2001), pp. 207-243.