Anna Louise Paulson is an American economist who is Executive Vice President and Director of Research of the

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (informally the Chicago Fed) is one of twelve regional Reserve Banks that, along with the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, make up the United States' central bank. The Chicago Reserve Bank serves the Sevent ...

. She is a member of the American Economic Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession and a past board member of the Western Economic Association International. Her research focuses on how households and firms cope with risk and incomplete financial markets, and how their financial decision-making is influenced by economic events.

Selected works

* Paulson, Anna L., and Robert Townsend. "Entrepreneurship and financial constraints in Thailand." ''Journal of Corporate Finance'' 10, no. 2 (2004): 229–262. * Cole, Shawn, Anna Paulson, and Gauri Kartini Shastry. "Smart money? The effect of education on financial outcomes." ''The Review of Financial Studies'' 27, no. 7 (2014): 2022–2051. * Paulson, Anna L., Robert M. Townsend, and Alexander Karaivanov. "Distinguishing limited liability from moral hazard in a model of entrepreneurship." ''Journal of political Economy'' 114, no. 1 (2006): 100–144. * Cole, Shawn, Anna Paulson, and Gauri Kartini Shastry. "High school curriculum and financial outcomes: The impact of mandated personal finance and mathematics courses." ''Journal of Human Resources'' 51, no. 3 (2016): 656–698. * Osili, Una Okonkwo, and Anna L. Paulson. "Institutions and financial development: Evidence from international migrants in the United States." ''The Review of Economics and Statistics'' 90, no. 3 (2008): 498–517.

References

21st-century American economists American women economists Living people University of Chicago alumni Carleton College alumni Financial economists Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women {{US-economist-stub