Nada Mora is an Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. She joined the Bank in May 2009. Her research currently focuses on asymmetric information in the syndicated loan market. She has also studied the effect of bank credit on real estate prices, the implications of dollarization on bank lending and firms access to finance, and the role of sovereign credit ratings. She received her Ph.D. in economics from MIT in 2003, and was an assistant professor at the American University of Beirut, and an economist at the Bank of England.

Publications in professional journals and books

"Towards a Framework for Quantifying Systemic Stability," with Piergiorgio Alessandri, Prasanna Gai, Sujit Kapadia, and Claus Puhr, International Journal of Central Banking, forthcoming.

"The Effect of Bank Credit on Asset Prices: Evidence from the Japanese Real Estate Boom during the 1980s," Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, Volume 40, 1, February 2008.

"Sovereign Credit Ratings: Guilty beyond Reasonable Doubt?" Journal of Banking and Finance, Volume 30, Issue 7, July 2006, pages 2041 ? 2062.

"What Moves Capital to Transition Economies?" with Pietro Garibaldi, Ratna Sahay and Jeromin Zettelmeyer. IMF Staff Papers, Vol. 48, Special Transition Issue, 2002.