Financial Economists
Eliana Balla
Lead Financial Economist
Eliana Balla is a lead financial economist and team leader. Her work involves financial institutions’ quantitative surveillance, stress testing and model validation. She joined the Richmond Fed after completing her doctorate in economics and has written extensively about banking, capital regulation and risk management. Recently, Balla’s applications include studies on bank failures, systemic risk and bank reserves for loan losses.
Balla received her bachelor’s degree from American University in Bulgaria and her master’s and doctoral degrees from Washington University in St. Louis.
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Publications
“A Comparison of Community Bank Failures and FDIC Losses in the 1986-92 and 2007-13 Banking Crises” (with E.S. Prescott, L. C. Mazur and J. Walter) forthcoming in Journal of Banking and Finance (2019)
“Earnings, risk-taking, and capital accumulation in small and large community banks” (with M. J. Rose) Journal of Banking and Finance 103 (June 2019): 36-50
“The Other Capital Infusion Program: The Case of the Small Business Lending Fund,” (with R.E. Carpenter and B.L. Robinson) Review of Financial Economics 34 (September 2017): 99-108.
"Loan Loss Provisions, Accounting Constraints, and Bank Ownership Structure" (with Morgan Rose) Journal of Economics and Business, 78 (2015), 92-117.
“Tail Dependence and Indicators of Systemic Risk for Large US Depositories” (with Ibrahim Ergen and Marco Migueis) Journal of Financial Stability Volume 15, December 2014, Pages 195–209.
“Assessing the Effectiveness of the Paulson ‘Teaser Freezer’ Plan: Evidence from the ABX Index” (with Robert Carpenter and Breck Robinson). Journal of Economics and Business 63, no. 5 (September-October 2011): 392-411.
“Dodd-Frank Act Reforms: Trust Preferred Securities No Longer Tier Capital” (with Kevin Cole and Breck Robinson). S&R Perspectives (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond) Winter Issue 2011.
“Dynamic Provisioning: A Countercyclical Tool for Loan Loss Reserves” (with Andrew McKenna). Economic Quarterly (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond) 95, no. 4 (Fall 2009): 383-418.
“Fiscal Crisis and Institutional Change in the Ottoman Empire and France” (with Noel D. Johnson). Journal of Economic History 69, no. 3 (September 2009): 809-845.
“Reserving for Loan Losses: What Do the Aggregate Numbers Say?” S&R Perspectives (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond), Spring Issue 2009.
“Giving and Receiving Foreign Aid: Does Conflict Count?” (with Gina Yannitell Reinhardt). World Development 36, no. 12 (December 2008): 2566-2585.
“Decoding Messages from the Yield Curve” (with Robert Carpenter and Mark Vaughan). Region Focus (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond) 2, no. 2 (Spring 2007): 37-39.
“Now and Then: A Comparative Look Back at the 1994-1995 Yield Curves” (with Raymond Brastow). Regional Economic Update (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis) July 2005, 3-5.
“Fiscal Choices and Religion in Ottoman Europe.” Homo Oeconomicus 21, no. 1 (2004): 59-82.
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Working Papers
"Earnings, Risk-taking, and Capital Accumulation in Community and Regional Banks"
"Did the Financial Reforms of the Early 1990s Fail? A Comparison of Bank Failures and FDIC Losses in the 1986-92 and 2007-13 Periods." (with Edward S. Prescott and John R. Walter). Working Paper Series (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond) 15-05 (May 2015).
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Economic Brief