Email address: garyr@uci.edu · Home page: http://orion.oac.uci.edu/~garyr/welcome.html
NBER: https://www.nber.org/people/gary_richardson · RePEc: http://authors.repec.org/pro/pri185/
EDUCATION
Doctoral Studies
University of California at Berkeley, Ph.D. in Economics, 1999
Dissertation Title: “Social Change and Industrial Expansion Before the Industrial Revolution”
Advisors: Barry Eichengreen, Brad Delong, Matthew Rabin
Undergraduate Studies
University of Chicago, B.A. in Political Science, June 1988
EXPERIENCE
Current Positions
Visiting professor , Institute of Economics, School of Social Science, Tsinghua University August 2023 to August 2024
Professor, Department of Economics, University of California at Irvine, July 2012 to present
Faculty Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2009 to present
Previous Academic Positions
Historian of the Federal Reserve System, July 2012 to July 2016
Economist, Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, July 2014 to July 2016
Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2006 to October 2009
Frederic Bastiat Professor of Economics, George Mason University, Fall 2007 to Spring 2008
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of California at Irvine, July 2006 to June 2012
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of California at Irvine, 1999 to 2006
Lecturer, UC Berkeley, Department of Demography, Spring 1999
Lecturer, UC San Diego, Department of Economics, Spring 1998
Lecturer, UC Berkeley, Department of Economics, Summer 1995
Previous Professional Positions
Writer and Researcher, Citizens for a Sound Economy, 1989 to 1992
Columbia First Federal Savings and Loan, Assistant Office Manager, 1988 to 1989
University Students Federal Credit Union, President and Manager, 1987 to 1988
JOURNAL ARTICLES(IN THE PAST FIVE YEARS)
(1)Christopher Koch, Gary Richardson, and Patrick Van Horn. “Countercyclical Capital Buffers: A Cautionary Tale.” Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking. Forthcoming.
(2)Haelim Anderson, Gary Richardson, and Brian Yang. “Deposit Insurance and Depositor Monitoring: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Creation of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.” Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking. Forthcoming.
(3)Cohen, Jon, Kinda Hachem, and Gary Richardson. “Relationship Lending and the Great Depression.” Review of Economics and Statistics. Forthcoming.
(4)Kris James Mitchener and Gary Richardson, "Network Contagion and Interbank Amplification during the Great Depression," Journal of Political Economy 127, no. 2 (April 2019): 465-507. (Lead article) https://doi.org/10.1086/701034
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS, ENCYCLOPEDIAS, CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, AND OTHER VOLUMES(IN THE PAST FIVE YEARS)
Chen, Qian, Christoffer Koch, Gary Richardson, and Padma Sharma. "The Macroeconomic Fallout of Shutting Down the Banking System." Economic Review 105, no. 2 (2020): 5-19
BOOK REVIEWS(IN THE PAST FIVE YEARS))
(1）Review of Silber, William L. The Story of Silver: How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World, Princeton University Press, 2019. Published in Regulation, Cato Institute, Vol. 41, No.2, Summer 2019. Republished by Economic History Review Network, September 2019. Republished by Economic History Review Network, February 2020.
(2）Review of Sebastian Edwards, American Default: The Untold Story of FDR, the Supreme Court, and the Battle over Gold. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. xxxiii + 252 pp. $30 (cloth), ISBN: 978-0-691-16188-4. Published in Regulation, Cato Institute, Vol. 44, Fall 2018. Republished by Economic History Review Network, February 2019.
(3）Review of Michael D. Bordo, Øyvind Eitrheim, Marc Flandreau and Jan F. Qvigstad, editors, Central Banks at a Crossroads: What Can We Learn from History? New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xix + 697 pages. $155 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-107-14966-3. Review published by Economic History Review Network, July 2018. http://eh.net/book_reviews/central-banks-at-a-crossroads-what-can-we-learn-from-history/
WORKING PAPERS
(1) “Payments Crises and Consequences” With Qian Chen, Chris Koch, and Padma Sharma. NBER Working Paper w27733. August 2020
(2) “Contagion of Fear.” With Kris Mitchener. NBER Working Paper 26859. March 2020.
(3)“Countercyclical Capital Buffers: A Cautionary Tale.” With Chris Koch and Patrick Van Horn. February 2020.
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2022 Nation Science Foundation, Research Grant FAIN # 2049401, Co-PI with PI Katherine Eriksson and Collaborative PI Arthi Vellore, start date 3/1/2021, end date 2/29/2024. “Collaborative Research: The Macroeconomy, Labor Markets, and Economic Mobility from the Civil War to Today: New High-Frequency Data on Local Economic Shocks.” $375,000 (via NBER for Richardson and Erikssson).
2021 Russell Sage Foundation, Co-PI with Katherine Eriksson and Arthi Vellore, start date ***, end date ***. “Explaining Black Socioeconomic Mobility After the Great Depression.” $122,045.
Nation Science Foundation, Research Grant FAIN # 2049401, Co-PI with PI Katherine Eriksson and Collaborative PI Arthi Vellore, start date 3/1/2021, end date 2/29/2024. “Collaborative Research: The Macroeconomy, Labor Markets, and Economic Mobility from the Civil War to Today: New High-Frequency Data on Local Economic Shocks.” $375,000 (via NBER for Richardson and Erikssson).
2013 National Science Foundation, Research Grant (Co-PI with Nina Bandlj, Julia Eayacher, and Jim Weatherall), $250,000 total for the years 2013-14, 2014-15.
2012 Chancellor’s Research Fellowship, for years 2012-13, 2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-26, 2016-17. $25,000 per year, total $125,000.
2011 Department of Defense, Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) Grant, $148,982 (PI with PI Michael McBride and CO-PI’s Michelle Garfinkel, Stergios Skepardas, and Caesar Sereseres)
2006 Mextanexus, Spiritual Capital Research Grant, $150,000
National Science Foundation, Research Grant, $61,308
2005 Newkirk Center for Science and Society, Research Grant, $7,500
