Charles Calomiris
Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions
Curriculum Director
BA, Yale, 1979; PhD, Stanford, 1985
Year joined: 1996
E-mail: cc374@columbia.edu
Journal articles
"Stock returns' sensitivities to crisis shocks: Evidence from developed and emerging markets"
Journal of International Money and Finance
(2012)
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"An Incentive-Robust Programme for Financial Reform"
The Manchester School
(2011)
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"Comment on "Implementing a Macroprudential Framework: Blending Boldness and Realism" (by Claudio Borio)"
Capitalism and Society
(2011)
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"Incentive-Robust Financial Reform"
The Cato Journal
(2011)
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"Profiting from government stakes in a command economy: Evidence from Chinese asset sales"
Journal of Financial Economics
(2010)
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"Banking Crises Yesterday and Today"
Financial History Review
(2010)
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"Reassessing the Fed's Regulatory Role"
The Cato Journal
(2010)
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"The Political Lessons of Depression-Era Banking Reform"
Oxford Review of Economic Policy
(2010)
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"Financial Innovation, Regulation, and Reform"
The Cato Journal
(2009)
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"Preserving Slave Families for Profit: Traders' Incentives and Pricing in the New Orleans Slave Market"
The Journal of Economic History
(2009)
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"Relationship Banking and the Pricing of Financial Services"
Journal of Financial Services Research
(2009)
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"Resolving the puzzle of the underissuance of national bank notes"
Explorations in Economic History
(2008)
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"Venture Capital as Human Resource Management"
Journal of Economics and Business
(2008)
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"Banker Fees and Acquisition Premia for Targets in Cash Tender Offers: Challenges to the Popular Wisdom on Banker Conflicts"
Journal of Empirical Legal Studies
(2007)
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"Devaluation with contract redenomination in Argentina"
Annals of Finance
(2007)
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"The Regulatory Record of the Greenspan Fed"
The American Economic Review
(2006)
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"Credit Card Securitization and Regulatory Arbitrage"
Journal of Financial Services Research
(2004)
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"Bank Capital and Portfolio Management: The 1930s, "Capital Crunch," and Scramble to Shed Risk"
Journal of Business
(2004)
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"Fundamentals, Panics, and Bank Distress During the Depression"
American Economic Review
(2003)
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"Consequences of Bank Distress during the Great Depression"
The American Economic Review
(2003)
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"Tax Policy, Internal Finance, and Investment: Evidence from the Undistributed Profits Tax of 1936-1937"
Journal of Business
(1995)
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"Financial Factors in the Great Depression"
The Journal of Economic Perspectives
(1993)
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"The Role of Demandable Debt in Structuring Optimal Banking Arrangements"
The American Economic Review
(1991)
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Working papers
"Why and How to Design a Contingent Convertible Debt Requirement"
(2012)
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"Did Doubling Reserve Requirements Cause the Recession of 1937–1938? A Microeconomic Approach"
Working Paper 2011–002A
(2011)
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"Underwriting Costs of Seasoned Equity Offerings: Cross-Sectional Determinants and Technological Change, 1980–2008"
Working paper
(2010)
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"Beyond Basel and the Dodd-Frank Bill"
(2010)
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"Luke's Oikonomia: The Anthropology of Salvation"
Working paper
(2010)
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"The (Mythical?) Housing Wealth Effect"
Working Paper 15075
(2009)
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"The Foreclosure-House Price Nexus: Lessons from the 2007–2008 Housing Turmoil"
Working Paper No. 14294
(2008)
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"Activity-Based Valuation of Bank Holding Companies"
Working Paper No. 12918
(2007)
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"Monopoly-Creating Bank Consolidation? The Merger of Fleet and BankBoston"
Working Paper No. 11351
(2005)
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"The Technical Challenge to Accurately Valuing Employee Stock Options"
Working Paper
(2005)
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"What's Wrong with Expensing Employee Stock Options?"
AEI Studies on Financial Market Deregulation
(2005)
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"The Political Economy of Bank Entry Restrictions: Theory and Evidence from the U.S. in the 1920s"
Working Paper
(2004)
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"Options Pricing and Accounting Practice"
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
(2004)
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"Government Credit Policy and Industrial Performance: Japanese Machine Tool Producers, 1963–91"
Policy Research Working Paper 1434
(1995)
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Books
Encyclopedia of Financial Globalization
(2012)
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Fragile Banks, Durable Bargains: Why Banking Is All About Politics and Always Has Been
(2012)
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Sustaining India's Growth Miracle
(2008)
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Emerging Financial Markets
(2000)
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Chapters
"Identifying the Right Mix of Capital and Cash Requirements in Prudential Regulation"
Strengthening the Liquidity of the Financial System
(2012)
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"Financial Crisis in the US and Beyond"
World in Crisis: Insights from Six Shadow Financial Regulatory Committees From Around the World
(2011)
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"Banking Crises and the Rules of the Game"
Monetary and Banking History: Essays in Honour of Forrest Capie
(2011)
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"Origins of the Subprime Crisis"
The International Financial Crisis: Have the Rules of Finance Changed?
(2011)
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"Volatile Times and Persistent Conceptual Errors: U.S. Monetary Policy, 1914–1951"
The Origins, History and Future of the Federal Reserve
(2011)
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"Exiting the Euro Crisis"
Life in the Eurozone, with and without Sovereign Default
(2011)
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"Prudential Bank Regulation: What's Broke and How to Fix It"
Reacting to the Spending Spree: Policy Change We Can Afford
(2009)
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"Fundamentals, Panics, and Bank Distress During the Depression"
Financial Crises
(2008)
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"The Subprime Turmoil: What's Old, What's New, and What's Next"
Maintaining Stability in a Changing Financial System
(2008)
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"Capital Flows, Financial Crises, and Public Policy"
Globalization: What's New?
(2005)
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"International Adjustment Under the Classical Gold Standard: Evidence for the U.S. and Britain, 1879-1914"
Modern Perspectives on the Gold Standard
(1996)
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Web-only articles
"The Economics of the Proposed Mortgage Servicer Settlement"
regulation2point0
(2011)
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"The Whys and Hows of CoCo Issuance"
Central Banking Journal
(2011)
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"A Contingent Capital Requirement for Banks"
e21
(2011)
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"Monetary Policy and the Behavior of Banks: Lessons from the 1930s for the 2010s"
Shadow Open Market Committee Symposium
(2011)
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"Are Delays in the Foreclosure Process Really a Good Thing?"
regulation2point0
(2011)
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"The Euro Is Dead"
Foreign Policy
(2011)
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"How Spain Can Avoid the Irish Error"
e21
(2010)
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"Real Prudential Regulatory Reform vs. Dodd-Frank"
Defining Ideas
(2010)
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"A Three-Part Program for Housing Finance Reform"
e21
(2010)
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"Time to Introduce Minimum Downpayments for Mortgages"
The Financial Times Economists' Forum
(2010)
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"Conflicts of Interest, Low-Quality Ratings, and Meaningful Reform of Credit and Corporate Governance Ratings"
e21
(2010)
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"Dueling Conflicts: Does Empowering Shareholders Always Increase Value? A Skeptical Perspective"
e21
(2010)
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"The Painful Arithmetic of Greek Debt Default"
e21
(2010)
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"The Volcker Rule: Unworkable and Unwise"
e21
(2010)
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"God's Household Economics"
Orthodoxy Today
(2010)
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"China's Financial Transition at a Crossroads"
The Chazen Web Journal of International Business
(2008)
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Magazine articles
"In Monetary Targeting, Two Tails Are Better Than One"
Bloomberg Businessweek
(2010)
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