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Padma Sharma
Economist

Email: padma.sharma[at]kc.frb.org
Address: Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
1 Memorial Drive
Kansas City, MO 64198

The views expressed herein are my own and do not represent the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City or the Federal Reserve System.

I am a Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. As an economist in the Research Department, I provide policy support by examining salient developments and risks in banking and financial markets. My research interests span the union of two fields - Econometrics and Financial Economics.

Curriculum Vitae: The latest version of my CV can be accessed here

Research Interests: Econometrics, Banking and Financial Institutions, and Computational Statistics

Research

An overview of my publications and research projects in progress.

Publications

“Loan Guarantees in a Crisis: An Antidote to a Credit Crunch? , Journal of Financial Stability, Journal of Financial Stability, Volume 72, 2024, p.101244.

Selection of random coefficients in ordered response models: a framework to detect heterogeneity in household surveys , Journal of Applied Statistics, Journal of Applied Statistics, Volume 51, 2024 - Issue 4, pp. 682-700.

Working Papers

Nonparametric Empirical Bayes Prediction in Mixed Models
with Trambak Banerjee
major revision at Management Science

Payments Crises and Consequences (NBER Working Paper 27733)
with Qian Chen, Christoffer Koch, and Gary Richardson
Revise and Resubmit at Journal of Financial Stability

Do financial regulators act in the public’s interest? A Bayesian latent class estimation framework for assessing regulatory responses to banking crises
with Trambak Banerjee
under review

Risk-shifting, Regulation and Government Assistance
with Trambak Banerjee

Work In Progress

Efficient Bayesian Estimation of the Mixed Logit Model with Ivan Jeliazkov and Kai Yoshioka

Detecting Structural Change in Time Varying Parameters of Panel Models with Trambak Banerjee

Policy

Government Assistance and Moral Hazard: Evidence from the Savings and Loan Crisis
Economic Review, Volume 107, Number 3 2022

Dampened Demand for Bank Loans Reflects Supply Bottlenecks, Not a Weakness in the Recovery
with Jacob Dice
Economic Bulletin, April 2022

PPP Raised Community Bank Revenue but Lowered Profitability”
with Blake Marsh
Economic Bulletin, December 2020

The Macroeconomic Fallout of Shutting Down the Banking System
with Christoffer Koch, Qian Chen and Gary Richardson
Economic Review, Volume 105, Number 2 2020