Financial Economics, Liquidity, Financial Stability, Interbank markets
Gara Afonso is an Economist in the Financial Intermediation Function at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Her research interests center on financial economics and she is primarily interested in the study of interbank markets, financial crises and market liquidity. Gara Afonso received a PhD in Finance from the London School of Economics in May 2008 and was a visiting graduate student at Princeton University from 2006 to 2008. She has recently been awarded the JFI Best Paper Prize for the most significant paper published in the 2011 Journal of Financial Intermediation for the paper “Liquidity and Congestion.”
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