Anna Paulson (economist)

For the Swedish football player, see Anna Paulson (footballer).

Anna Paulson
Alma mater	Carleton College (BA) University of Chicago (PhD)
Scientific career
Fields	Real estate economics, financial economics
Institutions	Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Kellogg School of Management
Website	https://www.chicagofed.org/Home/people/p/paulson-anna

Anna Louise Paulson is an American economist who is Executive Vice President and Director of Research of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. She is a member of the American Economic Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession and a past board member of the Western Economic Association International.

Her research focuses on how households and firms cope with risk and incomplete financial markets, and how their financial decision-making is influenced by economic events.

Selected works

• Paulson, Anna L., and Robert Townsend. "Entrepreneurship and financial constraints in Thailand." Journal of Corporate Finance 10, no. 2 (2004): 229–262.
• Cole, Shawn, Anna Paulson, and Gauri Kartini Shastry. "Smart money? The effect of education on financial outcomes." The Review of Financial Studies 27, no. 7 (2014): 2022–2051.
• Paulson, Anna L., Robert M. Townsend, and Alexander Karaivanov. "Distinguishing limited liability from moral hazard in a model of entrepreneurship." Journal of political Economy 114, no. 1 (2006): 100–144.
• Cole, Shawn, Anna Paulson, and Gauri Kartini Shastry. "High school curriculum and financial outcomes: The impact of mandated personal finance and mathematics courses." Journal of Human Resources 51, no. 3 (2016): 656–698.
• Osili, Una Okonkwo, and Anna L. Paulson. "Institutions and financial development: Evidence from international migrants in the United States." The Review of Economics and Statistics 90, no. 3 (2008): 498–517.