Mark Flood

Mark D. Flood studied finance (B.S., 1982), and German and economics (B.A., 1983) at Indiana University in Bloomington. In 1990, he earned his Ph.D. in finance from the Graduate School of Business at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has worked as Visiting Scholar and economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, taught at Concordia University in Montreal and University of North Carolina in Charlotte, and served as a Senior Financial Economist in the Division of Risk Management at the Office of Thrift Supervision and at the Federal Housing Finance Agency. More recently, he was a Research Principal at the Office of Financial Research. His research interests include the role of big data and fintech in financial markets, systemic financial risk, network modeling in finance, securities market microstructure, and financial regulation. His research has appeared in, among others, the Annual Review of Financial Economics, the Journal of Financial Stability, the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of International Money and Finance, Quantitative Finance, and the St. Louis Fed’s Review, and in a two-volume Handbook of Financial Data and Risk Information from Cambridge University Press.