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Paul E. Soto

Senior Economist Industrial Output Section Research and Statistics
202-912-4685
[email protected]

Education

  • Ph.D., Economics, University Pompeu Fabra, 2018
  • M.Sc., Economics, Barcelona School of Economics, 2013
  • B.A., Applied Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, 2011
Current Research Topics
  • Banking, Financial Economics, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning
  • Senior Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

    2022 - present
  • Senior Financial Economist

    Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

    2021 - 2022
  • Financial Economist

    Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

    2018 - 2021
  • Measurement and Effects of Supply Chain Bottlenecks Using Natural Language Processing
    Paul E. Soto
    FEDS Notes (2023)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/2380-7172.3257
  • Capital controls, domestic macroprudential policy and the bank lending channel of monetary policy
    Andrea Fabiani, Martha López Piñeros, José-Luis Peydró, and Paul E. Soto
    Journal of International Economics (2022)
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2022.103677
  • Capital Controls, Corporate Debt and Real Effects
    Andrea Fabiani, Martha López Piñeros, José-Luis Peydró, and Paul E. Soto
    Economics Working Papers (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) (2021)
  • Breaking the Word Bank: Measurement and Effects of Bank Level Uncertainty
    Paul E. Soto
    Journal of Financial Services Research (2021)
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s10693-020-00338-5
  • Stressed Banks? Evidence from the Largest-Ever Supervisory Review
    Puriya Abbassi, Rajkamal Iyer, José-Luis Peydró, and Paul E. Soto
    FDIC Quarterly (2020)
Awards
  • 2021

    University of Maryland, College Park

    Distinguished Teaching Award

  • 2021

    Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

    Individual STAR Award

  • 2020

    Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

    Mission Award

  • 2020

    University of Maryland, College Park

    Distinguished Teaching Award

  • 2020

    Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

    Individual STAR Award

  • 2019

    Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

    Individual STAR Award

Referee
  • IMF Economic Review
  • Financial Management
  • Journal of Financial Services Research
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Last Update: March 8, 2023