Bernardo C. Morais

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Principal Economist Emerging Market Economies Section International Finance

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Ph.D., Economics, Anderson School of Management, University of California - Los Angeles, 2011
M.A., Economics, UCLA, 2007
B.A., Business Administration, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2003

Economist
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
2012 - 2015
Senior Economist
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
2015 - 2018
Principal Economist
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
2018 - present

Agarwal, Sumit, Ricardo Correa, Bernardo Morais, Jessica Roldán, and Claudia Ruiz-Ortega (2020). "Owe a Bank Millions, the Bank Has a Problem: Credit Concentration in Bad Times," International Finance Discussion Papers 1288. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
Morais, Bernardo, José-Luis Peydró, Jessica Roldán-Peña, and Claudia Ruiz (2019). "The International Bank Lending Channel of Monetary Policy Rates and QE: Credit Supply, Reach-for-Yield, and Real Effects," Journal of Finance, vol. 74, no. 1, pp. 55-90.
Agarwal, Sumit, Bernardo Morais, Claudia Ruiz, and Jian Zhang (2016). "The Political Economy of Bank Lending: Evidence from an Emerging Market," Policy Research Working Paper Series 7577. The World Bank.
Morais, Bernardo, Jose-Luis Peydro, and Claudia Ruiz (2015). "The International Bank Lending Channel of Monetary Policy Rates and QE: Credit Supply, Reach-for-Yield, and Real Effects." International Finance Discussion Papers 1137. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
Morais, Bernardo (2015). "Risk, Financial Development and Firm Dynamics," International Finance Discussion Papers 1134. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
Morais, Bernardo, Jose-Luis Peydro, and Claudia Ruiz Ortega (2015). "The International Bank Lending Channel of Monetary Policy Rates and Quantitative Easing: Credit Supply, Reach-for-Yield, and Real Effects," Policy Research Working Paper Series 7216. The World Bank.

Last Update: August 2, 2024

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