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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
"Supply: A Tale of Two Bubbles," Cato Journal, vol. 31 no. 3, Fall 2011.
"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
"Obama's Unwelcome Mat," New York Daily News, January 26, 2012
"Fannie And Freddie Need to Go," TownHall.com, January 1, 2012
"Dodd-Frank Law: Regulations Won't Fix What's Wrong," philly.com, December 6, 2011
"More Ratings, Not Fewer," The New York Times (Online), November 3, 2011
"Fed Created a Recipe for Disaster in Housing Market," US News and World Report, October 21, 2011
Cato @ Liberty Blog Posts
"Was Obama Even Paying Attention during His Time in the Senate?," January 25, 2012
"Sorry EPI, It's Credit, Not Race, that Drives Mortgage Pricing," January 20, 2012
"FHA and the Foreclosures of Tomorrow," January 19, 2012
"It Was the Republican Banker on the Fed Board Raising Concern about Housing," January 18, 2012
"If the 'Volcker Rule' Is So Great, Why Exempt Treasuries and Agencies?," January 17, 2012
Events
"Capital Inadequacies: The Dismal Failure of the Basel Bank Capital Standards," November 17, 2011 [Capitol Hill Briefing]
"29th Annual Monetary Conference," November 16, 2011 [Conference]
"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]
Speeches and Testimony
"On the Private Mortgage Market Investment Act, Part 2," Congressional Testimony, December 7, 2011.
"The Obama Administration's Response to the Housing Crisis," Congressional Testimony, October 6, 2011.
"Audit the Fed: Dodd-Frank, QE3, and Federal Reserve Transparency," Congressional Testimony, October 4, 2011.
"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.
Multimedia
Mark Calabria: 'Our mortgage market pretty much sucks.' (January 31, 2012) [Cato Video, 17:01]
Mark Calabria discusses the state of the housing market on WOR's John Gambling Show (January 27, 2012) [Media Highlights - Radio, 07:28]
Mark A. Calabria discusses the Fed on Bloomberg's Street Smarts with Carol Massar (January 27, 2012) [Media Highlights - TV, 08:31]
The Libertarian State of the Union with Michael D. Tanner, Daniel J. Mitchell and Ilya Shapiro (January 24, 2012) [Events, 49:10]
Fed Urges More Housing Intervention (January 19, 2012) [Daily Podcast, 07:12]
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