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Bernd Schlusche

Principal Economist Money Market Analysis Section Monetary Affairs
202-452-2591
bernd.schlusche@frb.gov

Education

  • Ph.D., Economics, University of Bonn
  • Principal Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

    2015 - present
  • Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

    2010 - 2015
  • Visiting Scholar

    University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business

    2008 - 2010
  • Visiting Scholar

    University of Pennsylvania, Department of Economics

    2007 - 2008
  • Kandrac, John, and Bernd Schlusche (forthcoming). "Quantitative Easing and Bank Risk Taking: Evidence from Lending," Journal of Money, Credit and Banking.
  • Kandrac, John, and Bernd Schlusche (forthcoming). "The Effect of Bank Supervision and Examination on Risk Taking: Evidence from a Natural Experiment," The Review of Financial Studies.
  • Anderson, Alyssa G., Wenxin Du, and Bernd Schlusche (2021). "Arbitrage Capital of Global Banks," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2021-032. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
  • Carlson, Mark, Stefania D'Amico, Cristina Fuentes-Albero, Bernd Schlusche, and Paul Wood (2020). "Issues in the Use of the Balance Sheet Tool," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2020-071. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
  • Scherbina, Anna, and Bernd Schlusche (2020). "Follow the Leader: Using the Stock Market to Uncover Information Flows Between Firms," Review of Finance, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 189-225.
  • Chung, Hess, Etienne Gagnon, Taisuke Nakata, Matthias Paustian, Bernd Schlusche, James Trevino, Diego Vilán, and Wei Zheng (2019). "Monetary Policy Options at the Effective Lower Bound: Assessing the Federal Reserve's Current Policy Toolkit," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2019-003. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
  • Chung, Hess, Cynthia Doniger, Cristina Fuentes-Albero, Bernd Schlusche, and Wei Zheng (2018). "Simulating the Macroeconomic Effects of Unconventional Monetary Policies," FEDS Notes 2018-07-20. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
  • Kandrac, John, and Bernd Schlusche (2017). "Quantitative Easing and Bank Risk Taking: Evidence from Lending," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2017-125. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
  • Kandrac, John, and Bernd Schlusche (2017). "The Effect of Bank Supervision on Risk Taking: Evidence from a Natural Experiment," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2017-079. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
  • Ferris, Erin E. Syron, Soo Jeong Kim, and Bernd Schlusche (2017). "Confidence Interval Projections of the Federal Reserve Balance Sheet and Income," FEDS Notes 2017-01-13. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
  • Kandrac, John and Bernd Schlusche (2015). "An Agency Problem in the MBS Market and the Solicited Refinancing Channel of Large-Scale Asset Purchases," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2015-027. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
  • Carpenter, Seth, Selva Demiralp, Bernd Schlusche, and Zeynep Senyuz (2014). "Measuring Stress in Money Markets: A Dynamic Factor Approach," Economics Letters, vol. 125, no. 1, pp. 101-106.
  • Judson, Ruth A., Bernd Schlusche, and Vivian Wong (2014). "Demand for M2 at the Zero Lower Bound: The Recent U.S. Experience," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2014-22. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
  • Scherbina, Anna, and Bernd Schlusche (2014). "Asset Price Bubbles: A Survey," Quantitative Finance, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 589-604.
  • Neuhierl, Andreas, Anna Scherbina, and Bernd Schlusche (2013). "Market Reaction to Corporate Press Releases," Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, vol. 48, no. 4, pp. 1207-1240.
  • Kandrac, John, and Bernd Schlusche (2013). "Flow Effects of Large-Scale Asset Purchases," Economics Letters, vol. 121, no. 2, pp. 330-335.
  • Marquez, Jaime, Ari Morse, and Bernd Schlusche (2013). "The Federal Reserve's Balance Sheet and Overnight Interest Rates: Empirical Modeling of Exit Strategies," Journal of Banking & Finance, vol. 37, no. 12, pp. 5300-5315.
  • Scherbina, Anna, and Bernd Schlusche (2012). "Asset Bubbles: An Application to Residential Real Estate," European Financial Management, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 464-491.
  • Marquez, Jaime R., Ari Morse, and Bernd Schlusche (2012). "The Federal Reserve's Balance Sheet and Overnight Interest Rates," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2012-66. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
  • Neuhierl, Andreas, and Bernd Schlusche (2011). "Data Snooping and Market-Timing Rule Performance," Journal of Financial Econometrics, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 550-581.
  • Schlusche, Bernd (2009). "Price Formation in Spot and Futures Markets: Exchange Traded Funds Vs. Index Futures," Journal of Derivatives, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 26-40.
Awards
  • 2010

    Institute for Quantitative Investment Research

    Inquire UK Research Grant

Conference Organization

  • November 12-13, 2015 | Washington, D.C.

    Monetary Policy Implementation and Transmission in the Post-Crisis Period

    Organizer and Session Chair

Referee
  • Journal of Money, Credit and Banking
  • European Economic Review
  • Journal of Applied Econometrics
  • Macroeconomic Dynamics
  • Journal of Futures Markets
  • International Review of Economics and Finance
Professional Affiliation
  • American Finance Association
  • European Finance Association
Last update: July 27, 2021