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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

The Federal Reserve, the central bank of the United States, provides the nation with a safe, flexible, and stable monetary and financial system.

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Samuel K. Hughes

Economist Real Estate Finance Section Research and Statistics

[email protected]

Education

Ph.D., Applied Economics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2023
B.A., Economics and Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2013

Current Research Topics

Rental housing, rent growth
Commercial real estate, mortgage finance

Economist
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
2025 - present
Researcher
Office of Financial Research, U.S. Treasury Department
2023 - 2025
Data Research Analyst
Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley
2015 - 2017
Analyst
Analysis Group
2013 - 2015

Rising Property Insurance Costs and Pass-Through to Rents for Apartment Buildings
Samuel K. Hughes and Raven Molloy
FEDS Notes (2025)
https://doi.org/10.17016/2380-7172.3922
No News is Bad News: Monitoring, Risk, and Stale Financial Performance in Commercial Real Estate
Samuel K. Hughes and Joseph B. Nichols
Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2025)
https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2025.032

Last Update: November 21, 2025