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Patrick de Fontnouvelle
Vice President
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Education | Work experience | Publications | Public service
Primary fields of research
Financial economics and risk analysis
 

Biography
Patrick de Fontnouvelle is a Vice President in the Supervision and Regulation Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.  As head of the Department's Quantitative Analysis Unit, Mr. de Fontnouvelle focuses on internal risk modeling and capital allocation at large banking organizations.  Mr. de Fontnouvelle's current research focuses on quantifying financial institutions' operational risk, and on the interplay between operational risk and reputational risk. 

Prior to joining the Bank, he served as a financial economist at the Securities and Exchange Commission.  He has also taught economics at Iowa State University. 

Mr. de Fontnouvelle received his B.A. in mathematics from Princeton University, and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin. 


 

Education

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1995

B.A., Princeton University, 1987

Work experience

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Vice President, 2005-
Assistant Vice President, 2004-2005
Senior Economist, 2002–2004

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Financial Economist, 1999-2002

General Electric

Financial Economist, Corporate Research and Development, 1997-1999

Iowa State University

Assistant Professor of Economics, 1995-1997

Publications

Books

“Implications of Alternative Operational Risk Modelling Techniques,” with J. Jordan and E. Rosengren, in M. Carey and R. Stulz, eds., The Risks of Financial Institutions, NBER/University of Chicago Press, 2006.

“Searching for Sources of ARCH Behavior: Testing the Mixture of Distributions Model,” in P. Rothman, ed., Nonlinear Time Series Analysis of Economic and Financial Data, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999.

Journals

“Capital and Risk: New Evidence on Implications of Large Operational Losses,” with Virginia DeJesus-Rueff, John Jordan, and Eric Rosengren. Forthcoming in Journal of Money, Credit and Banking.

“How New Entry in Options Markets Affected Market Making and Trading Costs” with Raymond P.H. Fishe and Jeffrey H. Harris. Journal of Investment Management. vol. 3, no. 2 (Second Quarter 2005): 24-40.

“The Behavior of Bid-Ask Spreads and Volume in Options Markets During the Listings Competition in 1999,” with Raymond P.H. Fishe, and Jeffrey H. Harris. Journal of Finance. vol. 58 no. 6 (December 2003): 2437-2464.

“Transaction Costs and the Present-Value Puzzle of Farmland Prices,” with Sergio Lence. Southern Economic Journal. (2002).

“Information Dynamics in Financial Markets.” Macroeconomic Dynamics. (2001).

“Expectational Stability in Monetary Economies,” with William Brock. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. (2000).

Working papers

Capital and Risk: New Evidence on Implications of Large Operational Losses,” with Virginia DeJesus-Rueff, John Jordan, and Eric Rosengren. FRB Boston Series, paper no. 03-5 (2003).

Measuring Reputational Risk: The Market Reaction to Operational Loss Announcements,” with Jason Perry.

Public service

Referee: Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Risk, Journal of Banking and Finance

 

 

 
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