Blake Marsh is a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. He joined the Banking Research department in July 2016. His research areas are commercial bank regulation and financial intermediation. His current research examines commercial real estate lending, syndicated corporate lending, and financial innovation. Mr. Marsh holds a B.A. in economics from The George Washington University and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from American University. He previously held positions at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and in the mortgage industry.
Professional Journals and Books
- "Loan Guarantees in a Crisis: An Antidote to a Credit Crunch?" with Padma Sharma, 2024, Journal of Financial Stability, forthcoming.
- "Supervisory Stringency, Payout Restrictions, and Bank Equity Prices", 2023. Journal of Banking & Finance, forthcoming.
- "The U.S. syndicated loan market: Matching Data" with Gregory J. Cohen, Jacob Dice, Melanie Friedrichs, Kamran Gupta, William Hayes, Isabel Kitschelt, Seung Jung Lee, Nathan Mislang, Maya Shaton, Martin Sicilian and Chris Webster, 2021. Journal of Financial Research, 44, 695-723. External Linkhttps://doi.org/10.1111/jfir.12261
- "Assessing Targeted Macroprudential Financial Regulation: The Case of the 2006 Commercial Real Estate Guidance for Banks" with William F. Bassett, 2017. Journal of Financial Stability, 30, pp. 209-228.
Economic Review Articles
- The Implications of Unrealized Losses for Banks
with Brendan Laliberte, Volume 108, No. 2 - How Did Banks and Investors Respond to the 2020 Stress Test Results?
Volume 107, No. 1 - Corporate Leverage and Investment
with David Rodziewicz and Karna Chelluri, Volume 105, No. 1 - Bank Financial Restatements and Market Discipline
with Raluca A. Roman, Second Quarter 2018 - Do Adverse Oil Price Shocks Change Loan Contract Terms for Energy Firms?
with Rajdeep Sengupta and David Rodziewicz, Fourth Quarter 2017 - Banking on Distributed Ledger Technology: Can It Help Banks Address Financial Inclusion?
with Jesse Leigh Maniff, Third Quarter 2017
Research Working Papers
- Examining the Financial Accelerator: Bank Responses to the 2014 Oil Price Shock
with Rajdeep Sengupta and David Rodziewicz, RWP 24-14 - Supervisory Stringency, Payout Restrictions, and Bank Equity Prices
RWP 22-01 - Loan Guarantees in a Crisis: An Antidote to a Credit Crunch
with Padma Sharma, RWP 21-03 - What Did Policy Interventions Fix in the Municipal Bond Market - Liquidity or Credit?
with Huixin Bi, RWP 20-19 - The U.S. Syndicated Loan Market: Matching Data
with Gregory J. Cohen , Melanie Friedrichs, Kamran Gupta, William Hayes, Seung Jung Lee, Nathan Mislang, Maya Shaton, and Martin Sicilian, RWP 18-09 - Competition and Bank Fragility
with Rajdeep Sengupta, RWP 17-06
Economic Bulletin
- Why Are Multifamily Property Prices Falling?
with Matt Hanauer and Nicholas Sly, September 2024 - Are Firms Hoarding Cash Post-Pandemic?
with Karlye Dilts Stedman and Phillip An, June 2024 - Banks’ Commercial Real Estate Risks Are Uneven
with Jordan Pandolfo, April 2024 - Bank Deposit Rates Haven’t Kept Pace with Yields on Other Investments, but Depositors Are Staying Anyway
with Padma Sharma and Chris Acker, February 2024 - Corporate Interest Expenses Are Expected to Increase Further
with Huixin Bi and Phillip An, February 2024 - Community Bank Funding Is Getting Costlier and Riskier
with Brendan Laliberte and Padma Sharma, December 2023 - Pushing the Limit: Last-Minute Debt Limit Resolutions Have Increased Market Volatility and Uncertainty
with Stefan Jacewitz and Nicholas Sly, February 2023 - Is Bank Capital Regulation Driving Continued Use of the Overnight Reverse Repurchase (ON RRP) Facility?
with Rajdeep Sengupta, December 2022 - PPP Raised Community Bank Revenue but Lowered Profitability
with Padma Sharma, December 2020 - Understanding the Recent Rise in Municipal Bond Yields
with Huixin Bi, Jacob Dice, and Chaitri Gulati, May 2020 - How Have Banks Responded to Declining Reserve Balances?
with Rajdeep Sengupta, August 2019 - What's Driving Leveraged Loan Spreads?
with Seung Jung Lee, February 2019 - Trends in the Labor Share Post-2000
with Didem Tuzemen and Thao Tran, December 2018