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Stéphane Verani

Education

  • Ph.D., Economics, University of California - Santa Barbara, 2011
  • B.Ec., Economics (First Class Honours), University of Western Australia, 2006
Current Research Topics
  • Non-bank financial intermediation
  • Insurance companies, Market liquidity
  • Principal Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

    2017 - present
  • Senior Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

    2015 - 2017
  • Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

    2011 - 2015
  • What’s Wrong with Annuity Markets?
    Stéphane Verani and Pei Cheng Yu
    Journal of the European Economic Association (2024)
    https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvae007
    See also » FRB Working Paper (2021)
  • Adverse Selection Dynamics in Privately Produced Safe Debt Markets
    Nathan Foley-Fisher, Gary Gorton, and Stéphane Verani
    American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (2024)
    https://doi.org/10.1257/mac.20210383
  • The Informational Centrality of Banks
    Nathan Foley-Fisher, Gary B. Gorton, and Stéphane Verani
    NBER Working Paper Series (2023)
    https://doi.org/10.3386/w32007
    See also » FRB Working Paper (2024)
  • Measuring Interest Rate Risk Management by Financial Institutions
    Celso Brunetti, Nathan Foley-Fisher, and Stéphane Verani
    Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2023)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2023.067
  • How Do U.S. Life Insurers Manage Liquidity in Times of Stress?
    Nathan Foley-Fisher, Nathan Heinrich, and Stéphane Verani
    FEDS Notes (2022)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/2380-7172.3161
  • Self-Fulfilling Runs: Evidence from the U.S. Life Insurance Industry
    Nathan Foley-Fisher, Borghan Narajabad, and Stéphane Verani
    Journal of Political Economy (2020)
    https://doi.org/10.1086/708817
  • Assessing the Size of the Risks Posed by Life Insurers' Nontraditional Liabilities
    Nathan Foley-Fisher, Borghan Narajabad, and Stephane Verani
    FEDS Notes (2019)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/2380-7172.2358
  • Over-the-Counter Market Liquidity and Securities Lending
    Nathan Foley-Fisher, Stefan Gissler, and Stéphane Verani
    Review of Economic Dynamics (2019)
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.red.2019.02.005
    See also » FRB Working Paper (2019)
  • Aggregate Consequences of Dynamic Credit Relationships
    Stéphane Verani
    Review of Economic Dynamics (2018)
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.red.2017.12.001
    See also » FRB Working Paper (2015)
  • Securities Lending as Wholesale Funding: Evidence from the U.S. Life Insurance Industry
    Nathan Foley-Fisher, Borghan Narajabad, and Stephane Verani
    NBER Working Paper Series (2016)
    https://doi.org/10.3386/w22774
    See also » FRB Working Paper (2016)
  • Funding Agreement-Backed Securities in the Enhanced Financial Accounts
    Nathan C. Foley-Fisher, Ralf R. Meisenzahl, Borghan Narajabad, Maria G. Perozek, and Stephane H. Verani
    FEDS Notes (2016)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/2380-7172.1823
  • From Wall Street to Main Street: The Impact of the Financial Crisis on Consumer Credit Supply
    Rodney Ramcharan, Stephane Verani, and Skander J. Van den Heuvel
    Journal of Finance (2016)
    https://doi.org/10.1111/jofi.12209
    See also » FRB Working Paper (2012)
  • Financing Constraints, Firm Dynamics, and International Trade
    Till Gross and Stephane Verani
    Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2012)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2013.02
  • discussion

    January 2020

    European Winter Finance Conference 2020

    Do Municipal Bond Dealers Give their Customers `Fair and Reasonable' Pricing?

  • seminar

    October 2019

    UNSW Business School - Economics

    Who Limits Arbitarge?

  • conference

    June 2019

    Society for Economic Dynamics Meetings, St Louis

    Public and Private Longevity Insurance with Incomplete Markets

  • discussion

    May 2019

    Financial Intermediation Research Society 2019

    Financial Intermediation through Financial Disintermediation: Evidence from the ECB Corporate Sector Purchase Programme

  • conference

    May 2019

    Macro Finance Society Workshop

    Self-fulfilling Runs: Evidence from the US life insurance industry

  • discussion

    January 2019

    European Winter Finance Conference 2019

    How Risky is the US Corporate Sector?

  • seminar

    October 2018

    Australian National University

    Over-the-Counter Market Liquidity and Securities Lending

  • discussion

    September 2018

    Federal Reserve System Banking Conference 2018

    Capital Constraints and Risk Shifting: An Instrumental Approach

  • seminar

    May 2018

    University of Technology Sydney

    Lending to Invest

  • seminar

    May 2018

    University of Sydney

    Self-fulfilling Runs: Evidence from the US life insurance industry

  • seminar

    May 2018

    Australian National University

    Self-fulfilling Runs: Evidence from the US life insurance industry

  • seminar

    May 2018

    University of Melbourne

    Self-fulfilling Runs: Evidence from the US life insurance industry

  • seminar

    May 2018

    Deakin University

    Self-fulfilling Runs: Evidence from the US life insurance industry

  • conference

    April 2018

    RED Fragmented Financial markets Conference

    Over-the-Counter Market Liquidity and Securities Lending

  • seminar

    May 2018

    Monash Business School

    Lending to Invest

  • seminar

    April 2018

    Reserve Bank of Australia

    Lending to Invest

  • seminar

    April 2018

    University of Western Australia

    Lending to Invest

  • seminar

    May 2018

    UNSW Business School - Finance

    Lending to Invest

  • seminar

    June 2018

    UNSW Business School - Economics

    Self-fulfilling Runs: Evidence from the US life insurance industry

  • conference

    August 2017

    American Risk and Insurance Association Meeting

    Over-the-Counter Market Liquidity and Securities Lending

  • conference

    March 2017

    Cass Business School Workshop on Corporate Debt Markets

    Security Lending as Wholesale Funding: Evidence from the US life insurance industry

  • seminar

    March 2017

    Norges Bank

    Over-the-Counter Market Liquidity and Securities Lending

  • seminar

    March 2017

    BI Norwegian Business School

    Over-the-Counter Market Liquidity and Securities Lending

  • conference

    January 2017

    American Finance Association, Chicago

    Security Lending as Wholesale Funding: Evidence from the US life insurance industry

  • conference

    July 2016

    CEPR ESSFM Corporate Finance

    Self-fulfilling Runs: Evidence from the US life insurance industry

  • conference

    July 2016

    NBER SI Corporate Finance

    Self-fulfilling Runs: Evidence from the US life insurance industry

  • conference

    July 2016

    Society for Economic Dynamics Meetings, Toulouse

    Aggregate Consequences of Dynamic Credit Relationships

  • seminar

    June 2016

    UC Santa Barbara

    Security Lending as Wholesale Funding: Evidence from the US life insurance industry

  • conference

    June 2016

    LBS Summer Finance Symposium

    Security Lending as Wholesale Funding: Evidence from the US life insurance industry

  • discussion

    May 2016

    Univ of Connecticut's Risk Management Conference

    Lender of Last Resort versus Buyer of Last Resort: The Impact of the European Central Bank Actions on the Bank-Sovereign Nexus

  • seminar

    January 2016

    Swiss National Bank

    Self-fulfilling Runs: Evidence from the US life insurance industry

  • conference

    January 2016

    European Winter Finance Conference

    Self-fulfilling Runs: Evidence from the US life insurance industry

  • seminar

    October 2015

    Atlanta Fed

    Self-fulfilling Runs: Evidence from the US life insurance industry

  • conference

    October 2015

    Becker-Friedman Institute Conference on Financial Regulation, U Chicago

    Self-fulfilling Runs: Evidence from the US life insurance industry

  • seminar

    July 2015

    FDIC

    Self-fulfilling Runs: Evidence from the US life insurance industry

  • conference

    June 2015

    Western Finance Association, Seattle

    Self-fulfilling Runs: Evidence from the US life insurance industry

  • conference

    May 2015

    LAEF Conference on Macroeconomics and Business Cycles, Santa Barbara

    Self-fulfilling Runs: Evidence from the US life insurance industry

  • seminar

    March 2015

    UC Santa Barbara

    Self-fulfilling Runs: Evidence from the US life insurance industry

  • discussion

    January 2015

    Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association, Boston

    Did Saving Wall Street Really Save Main Street? The Real Effects of TARP on Local Business Conditions

  • conference

    October 2014

    Meeting of the System Committee on Financial Structure and Regulation, Houston

    Liquidity Creation and Runs in the U.S. Life Insurance Industry

  • conference

    May 2014

    LAEF Conference on Macroeconomics and Business Cycles, Santa Barbara

    Aggregate Consequences of Firm's Financing Constraints

  • seminar

    March 2014

    Georgia State University

    Aggregate Consequences of Dynamic Credit Relationships

  • conference

    January 2014

    Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association, Philadelphia

    From Wall Street to Main Street: The Impact of the Financial Crisis on Consumer Credit Supply

  • conference

    November 2013

    Midwest Macro Meeting, Minnesota

    Aggregate Consequences of Dynamic Credit Relationships

  • discussion

    June 2013

    Bank regulation and liquidity risk in a global financial system workshop / Oesterreichische Nationalbank & Basel Committee, Vienna

    Bank ratings: what determines their quality?

  • conference

    January 2013

    Federal Reserve's “Day Ahead” Conference on Financial Markets and Institutions, San Diego

    From Wall Street to Main Street: The Impact of the Financial Crisis on Consumer Credit Supply

  • conference

    June 2012

    International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance, Prague

    Aggregate Consequences of Firm's Financing Constraints

  • conference

    June 2012

    Society for Economic Dynamics Meetings, Cyprus

    Financing Constraints, Firm Dynamics, and International Trade

  • seminar

    May 2012

    UC Santa Barbara

    Financing Constraints, Firm Dynamics, and International Trade

  • conference

    March 2012

    Royal Economic Society Meeting, Cambridge UK

    Financing Constraints, Firm Dynamics, and International Trade

  • seminar

    February 2011

    Florida State University

    Aggregate Consequences of Firm's Financing Constraints

  • seminar

    February 2011

    University of New SouthWales

    Aggregate Consequences of Firm's Financing Constraints

  • seminar

    February 2011

    Fundacao Getulio Vargas

    Aggregate Consequences of Firm's Financing Constraints

  • seminar

    January 2011

    University du Quebec a Montreal

    Aggregate Consequences of Firm's Financing Constraints

  • seminar

    August 2010

    University of California, Davis

    Financing Constraints, Firm Dynamics, and International Trade

  • seminar

    June 2010

    The Australian National University

    Financing Constraints, Firm Dynamics, and International Trade

  • seminar

    June 2010

    University of Melbourne

    Financing Constraints, Firm Dynamics, and International Trade

  • conference

    June 2010

    Workshop on Macroeconomic Dynamics, Sydney

    Aggregate Consequences of Firm's Financing Constraints

  • conference

    February 2010

    LAEF Conference on Firm Financing, Dynamics and Growth, Santa Barbara

    Aggregate Consequences of Firm's Financing Constraints

Conference Organization
  • 2022-2023 | US

    Short-Term Funding Markets Conference (co-sponsored by the Federal Reserve Board and the Center for Financial Policy

    Program committee

  • 2019-2024 | France

    European Winter Finance Conference

    Program committee

  • 2019-2020 | US

    Financial Management Association Annual Meeting

    Program committee

  • 2019 | Germany

    ECB-BoE-Board Conference on Gender and Career Progression

    Program committee

Referee
  • International Economic Review
  • Review of Economic Dynamics
  • Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
  • Journal of Banking and Finance
  • Journal of Money, Credit and Banking
  • Journal of Financial Stability
  • International Finance
Professional Affiliation
  • Macro Finance Society
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Last Update: October 15, 2024