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Mark A. Calabria
Director of Financial Regulation Studies
Mark A. Calabria, is director of financial regulation studies at the Cato Institute. Before joining Cato in 2009, he spent six years as a member of the senior professional staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. In that position, Calabria handled issues related to housing, mortgage finance, economics, banking and insurance for Ranking Member Richard Shelby (R-AL). Prior to his service on Capitol Hill, Calabria served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Regulatory Affairs at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and also held a variety of positions at Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies, the National Association of Home Builders and the National Association of Realtors. Calabria has also been a Research Associate with the U.S. Census Bureau's Center for Economic Studies. He has extensive experience evaluating the impacts of legislative and regulatory proposals on financial and real estate markets, with particular emphasis on how policy changes in Washington affect low and moderate income households. He holds a doctorate in economics from George Mason University.
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E-Mail: mcalabria@cato.org
Cato Studies
"Fannie, Freddie, and the Subprime Mortgage Market," Briefing Paper no. 120, March 7, 2011.
Articles and Newsletters
"Economic Contractions in the United States: A Failure of Government," Cato Journal, Vol. 30, No. 2, Spring/Summer 2010.
"Would Consolidating Regulators Avoid the Next Crisis?," Lombard Street vol. 1 issue 16, November 16, 2009.
"Did Deregulation Cause the Financial Crisis?," Cato Policy Report, July/August 2009.
Opinion and Commentary
"Ditch the Double Standard for New Consumer Agency," Bloomberg Government, June 15, 2011
"Winners, Losers and Government," The New York Times (Online), June 2, 2011
"Housing Market Will Be Fine without 30-Year Fixed Loans," Investor's Business Daily, March 16, 2011
"The Debt Trap," The European, December 14, 2010
"There Is Nothing in QE2 Worth Conserving," National Review (Online), December 1, 2010
Cato @ Liberty Blog Posts
"Unhappy (belated) Birthday National Minimum Wage," June 27, 2011
"The Road to Greece Runs Through Basel," June 23, 2011
"Are We Building Enough Housing?," June 22, 2011
"Ricardo Paging Alan Blinder," June 21, 2011
"Perhaps Another Reason the White House Isn't Pushing Elizabeth Warren...," June 14, 2011
Events
"Is Dodd-Frank Constitutional?," February 15, 2011 [Policy Forum]
"Inflated: How Money and Debt Built the American Dream," February 8, 2011 [Book Forum]
"Banking and Insurance in the 112th Congress," December 7, 2010 [Policy Forum]
"28th Annual Monetary Conference," November 18, 2010 [Conference]
"Alchemists of Loss: How Modern Finance and Government Intervention Crashed the Financial System," November 16, 2010 [Book Forum]
Speeches and Testimony
"The Future Role of FHA, RHS, and GNMA in the Single- and Multi-family Mortgage Markets," Congressional Testimony, May 25, 2011.
"The State of the Housing Market," Congressional Testimony, March 9, 2011.
"Legislative Proposals to End Taxpayer Funding for Ineffective Foreclosure Mitigation Programs," March 2, 2011.
"GSE Reform: Immediate Steps to Protect Taxpayers and End the Bailout," February 9, 2011
"Parallel Monetary Mistakes in Japan and America," January 28, 2011.
Multimedia
Uncle Sam and Big Business: Enemies or Allies? And What Does that Mean for Young People? with Tim Carney, Rosario Palmieri and Tyson Slocum (June 24, 2011) [Events, 01:19:19]
Mark A. Calabria discusses Dodd-Frank and housing issues on AFR's Crane Durham's Nothing But Truth (June 14, 2011) [Media Highlights - Radio, 12:34]
Mark A. Calabria discusses credit card swipe fees on KOMO's Newsline AM with Ken Schram (June 13, 2011) [Media Highlights - Radio, 04:57]
Mark A. Calabria on the delaying of Dodd-Frank on the Kudlow Report (June 7, 2011) [Media Highlights - TV, 04:09]
Diamond Down, Fed in Flux (June 6, 2011) [Daily Podcast, 07:29]
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