Our mission is to produce leading-edge research on how credit markets and payment systems affect the economy. The Institute sponsors opportunities for scholars, the financial industry, and the public sector to collaborate and share insights on fostering healthy household finances, a stable financial system, and a resilient economy.
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Our researchers span four Bank departments and collaborate with each other and visiting scholars to provide the next level of research.
Meet one of our researchers
Wenli Li
Senior Economic Advisor and Economist, Research Department
Wenli Li studies consumer finance, financial intermediation, and macroeconomics. Her research focuses on housing, demographics, and economic growth.
Expertise
- Consumer Finance
- Financial Intermediations
- Macroeconomics
Featured Publications
- Demographic Aging, Industrial Policy, and Chinese Economic Growth
- Leaving Households Behind: Institutional Investors and the U.S. Housing Recovery
- Recourse and Residential Mortgage Default: The Case of Nevada
- Using Bankruptcy to Reduce Foreclosures: Does Strip-Down of Mortgages Affect the Supply of Mortgage Credit?
- An Anatomy of U.S. Personal Bankruptcy Under Chapter 13
Publications and Resources
Literature Database
Our continually updated database provides bibliographic citations for journal articles, books, reports, and other publications on consumer credit and payments and links to full-text papers from across the Federal Reserve System.
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