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Christine L. Dobridge

Education

  • Ph.D., Finance, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2015
  • M.A., Finance, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2015
  • M.A., Economics, New York University, 2009
  • B.A., Economics, Wellesley College, 2002
Current Research Topics
  • Corporate Taxation
  • Tax Planning
  • Principal Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

    2022 - present
  • Instructor, Research Methods

    American Economic Association Summer Program, Howard University

    2024
  • Senior Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

    2018 - present
  • Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

    2015 - 2018
  • U.S. Economist, Consultant

    Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.

    2009 - 2010
  • Deputy Assistant Secretary for Macroeconomic Analysis

    U.S. Department of the Treasury

    2008 - 2009
  • Senior Advisor, Office of Economic Policy

    U.S. Department of the Treasury

    2007 - 2008
  • U.S. Economist

    Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.

    2004 - 2007
  • Research Assistant

    Council of Economic Advisers

    2002 - 2004
  • Personal Tax Changes and Financial Well-being: Evidence from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
    Christine L. Dobridge, Joanne Hsu, and Mike Zabek
    Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2024)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2024.029
  • Heterogeneity in Corporate Tax Incidence by Worker Characteristics
    Patrick J. Kennedy, Christine L. Dobridge, Paul Landefeld, and Jacob Mortenson
    American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings (2024)
    https://doi.org/10.1257/pandp.20241095
  • The TCJA and Domestic Corporate Tax Rates
    Christine L. Dobridge, Patrick Kennedy, Paul Landefeld, and Jacob Mortenson
    Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2023)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2023.078
  • IPOs and Corporate Tax Planning
    Christine L. Dobridge, Rebecca Lester, and Andrew Whitten
    Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2022)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2021.058r1
  • The post-COVID stock listing boom
    Christine L. Dobridge, Rebecca John, and Berardino Palazzo
    FEDS Notes (2022)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/2380-7172.3125
  • The Secular Decline in Private Firm Leverage
    Christine L. Dobridge, Erik P. Gilje, and Andrew Whitten
    NBER Working Paper Series (2022)
    https://doi.org/10.3386/w30034
  • Corporate Taxes and the Earnings Distribution: Effects of the Domestic Production Activities Deduction
    Christine L. Dobridge, Paul Landefeld, and Jacob Mortenson
    Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2021)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2021.081
  • Tax Loss Carrybacks as Firm Fiscal Stimulus: A Tale of Two Recessions
    Christine Dobridge
    Accounting Review (2021)
    https://doi.org/10.2308/TAR-2019-0371
  • IPOs and Corporate Taxes
    Christine Dobridge, Rebecca Lester, and Andrew Whitten
    Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2021)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2021.058
  • High-Cost Credit and Consumption Smoothing
    Christine L. Dobridge
    Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (2018)
    https://doi.org/10.1111/jmcb.12465
  • For Better and for Worse? Effects of Access to High-Cost Consumer Credit
    Christine L. Dobridge
    Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2016)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2016.056
  • Fiscal Stimulus and Firms: A Tale of Two Recessions
    Christine L. Dobridge
    Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2016)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2016.013
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Last Update: August 12, 2024