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U.S. financial history, economics of banking and financial institutions, cryptoassets, financial stabilitySelected Work
“Can a Bank Run Be Stopped? Government Guarantees and the Run on Continental Illinois”
with Mark A. Carlson
Bank for International Settlements Working Papers, June 2024.
“Housing in American Economic History”
with Daniel Fetter and Kenneth A. Snowden
in Oxford Handbook of American Economic History, 2018
“Housing and Mortgage Markets in Historical Perspective”
in Price Fishback, Kenneth Snowden, and Eugene White, ed., The Prolonged Resolution of Troubled Real Estate Lenders during the 1930s
National Bureau of Economic Research Series and University Of Chicago Press, 2014
Well Worth Saving: How the New Deal Safeguarded Home Ownership
with Price Fishback and Kenneth A. Snowden
National Bureau of Economic Research Series on Long-Term Factors in Economic Development, 2013
“Statistics on Federal Reserve System Employment, 1915 to 2022”
with Genevieve Podleski and Jona Whipple
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Synopses, 2023, No. 16
“Understanding the Speed and Size of Bank Runs in Historical Comparison”
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Synopses, 2023, No. 12
Jonathan Rose is the historian of the Federal Reserve System, hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis since November 2022. In that role, he bridges the past and the present for policymakers, researchers, students, educators, and the general public. Part of his responsibilities are creating and vetting content for the Federal Reserve History website.
Rose is also senior economist and economic advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. In that role, he is responsible for providing knowledge leadership, executing economic analysis of financial conditions, and conducting academic-style research relevant to the Federal Reserve’s mission. Rose’s research focuses on the economic history of the United States, including topics in the Great Depression, the residential mortgage market, and the Federal Reserve System.
He received his Ph.D. in economics from University of California-Berkeley. Rose has also served at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the United States Department of Treasury.
