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Paul E. Soto

Senior Economist Industrial Output Section Research and Statistics
202-912-4685
[email protected]

Education

  • Ph.D., Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018
  • M.Sc., Economics, Barcelona School of Economics, 2013
  • B.A., Applied Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, 2011
Current Research Topics
  • Banking, Financial Economics, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning
  • Senior Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

    2022 - present
  • Adjunct Professor

    University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business

    2019 - 2023
  • Senior Financial Economist

    Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

    2021 - 2022
  • Financial Economist

    Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

    2018 - 2021
  • Stressed Banks? Evidence from the Largest-Ever Supervisory Review
    Puriya Abbassi, Rajkamal Iyer, José-Luis Peydró, and Paul E. Soto
    Management Science (Forthcoming)
    See also » FRB Working Paper (2023)
  • Inside the Boardroom: Evidence from the Board Structure and Meeting Minutes of Community Banks
    Rosalind L. Bennett, Manju Puri, and Paul E. Soto
    Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2024)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2024.085
  • Trademarks in Banking
    Ryuichiro Izumi, Antonis Kotidis, and Paul E. Soto
    Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2024)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2024.044
  • Manufacturing Sentiment: Forecasting Industrial Production with Text Analysis
    Tomaz Cajner, Leland D. Crane, Christopher Kurz, Norman Morin, Paul E. Soto, and Betsy Vrankovich
    Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2024)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2024.026
  • Tracking Real Time Layoffs with SEC Filings: A Preliminary Investigation
    Leland D. Crane, Emily Green, Molly Harnish, Will McClennan, Paul E. Soto, Betsy Vrankovich, and Jacob Williams
    Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2024)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2024.020
  • Measurement and Effects of Supply Chain Bottlenecks Using Natural Language Processing
    Paul E. Soto
    FEDS Notes (2023)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/2380-7172.3257
  • Capital controls, domestic macroprudential policy and the bank lending channel of monetary policy
    Andrea Fabiani, Martha López Piñeros, José-Luis Peydró, and Paul E. Soto
    Journal of International Economics (2022)
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2022.103677
  • Capital Controls, Corporate Debt and Real Effects
    Andrea Fabiani, Martha López Piñeros, José-Luis Peydró, and Paul E. Soto
    Economics Working Papers (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) (2021)
  • Breaking the Word Bank: Measurement and Effects of Bank Level Uncertainty
    Paul E. Soto
    Journal of Financial Services Research (2021)
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s10693-020-00338-5
Awards
  • 2021

    University of Maryland, College Park

    Distinguished Teaching Award

  • 2021

    Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

    Individual STAR Award

  • 2020

    Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

    Mission Award

  • 2020

    University of Maryland, College Park

    Distinguished Teaching Award

  • 2020

    Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

    Individual STAR Award

  • 2019

    Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

    Individual STAR Award

Referee
  • Economic Letters
  • Financial Management
  • International Journal of Forecasting
  • IMF Economic Review
  • Journal of Corporate Finance
  • Journal of Econometrics
  • Journal of Financial Services Research
  • Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance
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Last Update: November 12, 2024