Anna Paulson (economist)

For the Swedish football player, see Anna Paulson (footballer).

Anna Louise Paulson (born 1964/1965)^[1] is an American economist who is Executive Vice President and Director of Research of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.^[2] Beginning on July 1, 2025, she will be the 12th President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.^[3]

Anna Paulson
President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Incumbent
Assumed office July 1, 2025
Preceded by	Patrick T. Harker
Personal details
Born	1964 or 1965 (age 60–61)
Education	Carleton College (BA) University of Chicago (MA, PhD)

She is a member of the American Economic Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession and a past board member of the Western Economic Association International.^[4]

Her research focuses on how households and firms cope with risk and incomplete financial markets,^[5] and how their financial decision-making is influenced by economic events.^[6]

Selected works

• Paulson, Anna L., and Robert Townsend. "Entrepreneurship and financial constraints in Thailand." Journal of Corporate Finance 10, no. 2 (2004): 229–262.
• Cole, Shawn, Anna Paulson, and Gauri Kartini Shastry. "Smart money? The effect of education on financial outcomes." The Review of Financial Studies 27, no. 7 (2014): 2022–2051.
• Paulson, Anna L., Robert M. Townsend, and Alexander Karaivanov. "Distinguishing limited liability from moral hazard in a model of entrepreneurship." Journal of political Economy 114, no. 1 (2006): 100–144.
• Cole, Shawn, Anna Paulson, and Gauri Kartini Shastry. "High school curriculum and financial outcomes: The impact of mandated personal finance and mathematics courses." Journal of Human Resources 51, no. 3 (2016): 656–698.
• Osili, Una Okonkwo, and Anna L. Paulson. "Institutions and financial development: Evidence from international migrants in the United States." The Review of Economics and Statistics 90, no. 3 (2008): 498–517.