Meet the Researchers
Sam Hempel
Senior Economist
Short-Term Funding Markets Section
Research and Statistics
Education
- Ph.D., Finance, Cornell University, 2020
- M.A., Economics, University of Georgia, 2016
- A.B., Economics, University of Georgia, 2016
- B.S., Statistics, University of Georgia, 2015
Current Research Topics
- Short-Term Funding Markets, Asset Management, Digital Assets
Senior Economist
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
2023 - presentEconomist
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
2022 - 2023Researcher
Office of Financial Research - U.S. Department of the Treasury
2020 - 2022
- Firms’ financing choice between short-term and long-term debts: Are they substitutes?
Sam Hempel, Yi Li, and Sean Tibay
FEDS Notes (2024)
https://doi.org/10.17016/2380-7172.3438 - Money Market Fund Repo and the ON RRP Facility
Samuel J. Hempel, Calvin Isley, R. Jay Kahn, and Patrick E. McCabe
FEDS Notes (2023)
https://doi.org/10.17016/2380-7172.3412 - Why Is So Much Repo Not Centrally Cleared?
Samuel J. Hempel, R. Jay Kahn, Robert Mann, and Mark Paddrik
OFR Brief Series (2023) - OFR’s Pilot Provides Unique Window Into the Non-centrally Cleared Bilateral Repo Market
Samuel J. Hempel, R. Jay Kahn, Robert Mann, and Mark Paddrik
OFR Blog (2022) - Non-centrally Cleared Bilateral Repo
Samuel J. Hempel, R. Jay Kahn, Vy Nguyen, and Sharon Y. Ross
OFR Blog (2022) - Financial Intermediary Funding Constraints and Segmented Markets
Samuel J. Hempel, Dasol Kim, and Russ Wermers
OFR working paper (2022) - Negative Rates in Bilateral Repo Markets
Samuel J. Hempel and R. Jay Kahn
OFR Brief Series (2021)
conference
2024University of Georgia Godfrey Conference
Conference Organization
May 2023 | Washington, DC
6th Fed-Maryland Short-Term Funding Markets Conference
Co-Organizer
August 2024 | Washington, DC
2024 Summer Workshop on Money, Banking, Payments, and Finance
Co-Organizer
June 2024 | Washington, DC
7th Fed-Maryland Short-Term Funding Markets Conference
Co-Organizer
Last Update:
August 2, 2024