Meet the Economists

Diana A. Iercosan
Principal Economist
Trading and Capital Markets Section
Supervision and Regulation
202-912-4648
diana.a.iercosan@frb.gov
diana.a.iercosan@frb.gov
Education
- Ph.D., Economics, University of Maryland, 2011
- B.A., Economics and Mathematics, Occidental College, 2006
Current Research Topics
- Evolution of trading activities post GFC
Economist
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
2011 - present
- Falato, Antonio, Diana Iercosan, and Filip Zikes (2021). "Banks as Regulated Traders," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2019-005r1. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
- Abboud, Alice, Chris Anderson, Aaron Game, Diana Iercosan, Hulusi Inanoglu, and David Lynch (2021). "Banks' Backtesting Exceptions during the COVID-19 Crash: Causes and Consequences," FEDS Notes 2021-07-08. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
- Abboud, Alice, Elizabeth Duncan, Akos Horvath, Diana Iercosan, Bert Loudis, Francis Martinez, Timothy Mooney, Ben Ranish, Ke Wang, Missaka Warusawitharana, and Carlo Wix (2021). "COVID-19 as a Stress Test: Assessing the Bank Regulatory Framework," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2021-024. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
- Iercosan, Diana, Ashish Kumbhat, Michael Ng, and Jason Wu (2017). "Trading Activities at Systemically Important Banks, Part 1: Recent Trends in Trading Performance," FEDS Notes 2017-07-10. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
- Iercosan, Diana, Ashish Kumbhat, Michael Ng, and Jason Wu (2017). "Trading Activities at Systemically Important Banks, Part 2: What Happened during Recent Risk Events?" FEDS Notes 2017-07-10. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
- Iercosan, Diana, Ashish Kumbhat, Michael Ng, and Jason Wu (2017). "Trading Activities at Systemically Important Banks, Part 3: What Drives Trading Performance?" FEDS Notes 2017-07-10. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
- Iercosan, Diana (2011). "Discrete Choice Under Spatial Dependence and a Model of Patent Renewal," Ph.D. dissertation, University of Maryland.
Last update:
September 7, 2021