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Mark A. Calabria

Director of Financial Regulation Studies

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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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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

"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

"Nobel Laureate Diamond Is Unqualified for Fed," Bloomberg.com, November 21, 2010

"Happy Birthday, Bank Bailout!," Daily Caller, October 3, 2010

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Cato @ Liberty Blog Posts

"Europe Has Done Enough Harm to the IMF," May 19, 2011

"Is Housing Holding Back Inflation?," May 13, 2011

"Are Higher House Prices Better for the Real Estate Industry?," May 5, 2011

"Some Thoughts on Federal Rental Housing Assistance," May 4, 2011

"Can We Rely on Inflation Expectations?," May 3, 2011

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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]

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Speeches and Testimony

"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.

"Foreclosure Prevention: Is The Home Affordable Modification Program Preserving Homeownership?," March 25, 2010

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Multimedia

Media Highlights - TV Mark A. Calabria on American tax policies on Cavuto (May 19, 2011) [Media Highlights - TV, 02:37]

Media Highlights - TV Mark A. Calabria discusses QE2 on CNBC's The Call (May 18, 2011) [Media Highlights - TV, 05:30]

Media Highlights - TV Mark A. Calabria discusses inflation on FBN's Cavuto (May 13, 2011) [Media Highlights - TV, 02:57]

Media Highlights - Radio Mark Calabria discusses the CFPB on NPR's The Diane Rehm Show (May 5, 2011) [Media Highlights - Radio, 47:18]

Media Highlights - TV Mark Calabria on Barney Frank's bill on PBS's Nightly Business Report (May 3, 2011) [Media Highlights - TV, 02:57]

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