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Senior Economist Household and Business Spending Section Research and Statistics

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Senior Economist
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
2023 - present
Economist
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
2022 - 2023
Economist
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
2020 - 2022

Bank Information Production Over the Business Cycle
Cooper Howes and Gregory Weitzner
Review of Economic Studies (Forthcoming)
https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdaf107
Financial Constraints, Sectoral Heterogeneity, and the Cyclicality of Investment
Cooper Howes
Review of Economics and Statistics (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01351
Why does structural change accelerate in recessions? The credit reallocation channel
Cooper Howes
Journal of Financial Economics (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2021.07.009

Last Update: January 26, 2026

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