Kris Mitchener

Kris James Mitchener is the Robert and Susan Finocchio Professor of Economics at Santa Clara University. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and the Centre for Competitive Advantage and the Global Economy (CAGE), and Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) and CESifo. Prior to his current position, he was professor of economics at the University of Warwick. In 2021-22, he was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Sciences, and from 2009-11, he was the W. Glenn Campbell and Rita-Ricardo Campbell Hoover National Fellow at Stanford University.

The project

Central Bank Losses and Lending of Last Resort: Evidence from the Banque de France in the 1930s.

Hosting institution: Paris-Jourdan sciences économiques (PJSE) | Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)

Selective bibliography

• In Defense of Public Debt, Oxford University Press, 2021
• “Sovereign Debt in the 21st Century.” Journal of Economic Literature (June 2023).
• “The Smoot Hawley Trade War.” Economic Journal (October 2022)
• “Bank Regulation, Network Topology, and Systemic Risk: Evidence from the Great Depression.” Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (August 2022)
• “Uncertainty and Hyperinflation: European Inflation Dynamics after World War I.” Economic Journal (January 2021).