Professional Experience

• • Section Chief

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

  • 2011 - present

• • Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

  • 2008 - 2010

• • Financial Economist

    Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

  • 2002 - 2008

• • Adjunct Faculty

    DePaul University, Kellstadt Graduate School of Business

  • 2006 - 2008

Publications

• Rice, Tara, and Philip E. Strahan (2010). "Does Credit Competition Affect Small-Firm Finance?" Journal of Finance, vol. 65, no. 3, pp. 861-889.
• Bech, Morten L., and Tara Rice (2009). "Profits and Balance Sheet Developments at U.S. Commercial Banks in 2008," Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol. 95, pp. A57-97.
• Rice, Tara N., and Philip E. Strahan (2008). "How Effective is Federal Legislation? Differential Interstate Branching Restrictions and Bank Lending," In Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference on Bank Structure and Regulation. Federal reserve bank of Chicago, pp. 205-221.
• Jankowski, Carrie, Richard D. Porter, and Tara Rice (2007). "Against the Tide--Currency use among Latin American Immigrants in Chicago," Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Economic Perspectives, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 2-21.
• Johnson, Christian A., and Tara Rice (2007). "Assessing a Decade of Interstate Bank Branching," Working Paper Series WP-07-03. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
• Ors, Evren, and Tara Rice (2007). "Bank Imputed Interest Rates: Unbiased Estimates of Offered Rates?" CEPR Discussion Papers 6036. Centre for Economic Policy Research.
• Ors, Evren, and Tara Rice (2006). "Bank Imputed Interest Rates: Unbiased Estimates of Offered Rates?" Working Paper Series WP-06-26. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
• DeYoung, Robert, and Tara Rice (2004). "How do Banks make Money? A Variety of Business Strategies," Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Economic Perspectives, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 52-67.
• DeYoung, Robert, and Tara Rice (2004). "How do Banks make Money? the Fallacies of Fee Income," Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Economic Perspectives, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 34-51.
• DeYoung, Robert, and Tara Rice (2004). "Noninterest Income and Financial Performance at U.S. Commercial Banks," Financial Review, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 101-127.
• Kane, Edward J., and Tara Rice (2001). "Bank Runs and Banking Policies: Lessons for African Policy Makers," Journal of African Economies, vol. 10, pp. 36-71.
• Barth, James R., Daniel E. Nolle, and Tara N. Rice (2000). "Commercial Banking Structure, Regulation and Performance: An International Comparison," in Papadimitriou, Dimitri,B. ed., Modernizing Financial Systems. New York: St. Martin's Press; London: Macmillan Press, pp. 119-251.

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