CHRISTOPHER A. MARTIN

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Phone: (202) 898-3934 550 17th Street, NW Email: chrmartin@fdic.gov Washington, DC 20429

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Economics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 2014

Advisors: Professors Jonathan Wright and Jon Faust

Dissertation: Essays on Foreign Treasury Purchases and the Yield Curve

M.A. in Economics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 2013

B.A. in Economics, McDaniel College, Westminster, MD, 2008

Honors: summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Financial Economist, Center for Financial Research, Federal Deposit Insurance

Corporation, October 2016-present (except during Acting Chief detail)

Acting Chief, Quantitative Risk Analysis Section, Center for Financial Research,

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, August 2021-November 2021

Financial Economist, Center for Financial Research, Federal Deposit Insurance

Corporation, October 2014-October 2016

Research and Forecasting Assistant to Dr. Robert Barbera, Johns Hopkins University

Center for Financial Economics, January 2013-January 2014

Summer Associate, Congressional Budget Office, Macroeconomic Analysis Division,

Summer 2013

FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION

Applied Banking, Macro-Finance, Time Series Econometrics

PUBLICATIONS

Martin, Christopher, Manju Puri, and Alexander Ufier (2022), “Deposit Inflows and Outflows

in Failing Banks: The Role of Deposit Insurance,” Journal of Finance, forthcoming.

Heitz, Amanda Rae, Christopher Martin, and Alexander Ufier (2023), “Bank Loan Monitoring,

Distance, and Delegation,” AEA Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 113, pp. 177-181.

Kapinos, Pavel, Christopher Martin, and Oscar Mitnik (2018), “Stress Testing Banks: Whence

and Whither?” Journal of Financial Perspectives, Vol 5(1), pp. 68-87.
McIntyre, Kevin H. and Christopher Martin (2013), “Estimates and Determinants of Firm

Efficiency in Eastern Europe: Evidence from Romanian Microdata,” Eastern European

Economics, Vol. 51(2), pp. 58-89.

WORKING PAPERS

Heitz, Amanda Rae, Christopher Martin, and Alexander Ufier (2023), “Bank Monitoring with

On-Site Inspections,” FDIC Center for Financial Research Working Paper No. 2022-09.

Martin, Christopher (2015), “Identifying the Effects of Chinese Treasury Purchases Using High

Frequency Data.”

Martin, Christopher (2015), “Treasury Purchases and the Yield Curve: Evidence from a

Sign-Identified Vector Autoregression.”

Martin, Christopher (2014), “Extracting Treasury Flows as a Latent Variable.”

POLICY PAPERS

Contributing Author, Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (2022), “Evaluation of the

Impact and Efficacy of the Basel III Reforms.”

Martin, Christopher (2013), “A Comparative Evaluation of CBO’s Consumption Forecasting

Equation,” CBO internal manuscript.

CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS

Items marked with an asterisk are planned, but have not yet occurred.

2023: Eastern Finance Association Conference, Northern Finance Association Conference*,

Southern Finance Association Conference*

2022: Financial Management Association Annual Meeting

2018: American Economic Association Conference, NBER Corporate Finance Conference,

Interagency Early Warning Model Workshop, Johns Hopkins University

2017: Eastern Economic Association Conference, Avoiding and Resolving Banking Crises

Conference at De Nederlandsche Bank, Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council

International Banking Conference

2015: Eastern Economic Association Conference, FDIC Center for Financial Research, Federal

Reserve Board, International Atlantic Economic Society Conference

HONORS AND AWARDS

Best Paper Award - Financial Intermediation, Eastern Finance Association, 2023

Best Paper Award - Financial Markets and Institutions, Financial Management

Association, 2018, 2022

Professor Joel Dean Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2011-2012, 2013-2014
TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Financial Markets and Institutions, Instructor, Summer 2012

Financial Markets and Institutions, Teaching Assistant (Professor Jon Faust, Johns

Hopkins University), Spring 2010, Spring 2011 (Head TA), Spring 2012 (Head TA), Spring 2014

Elements of Macroeconomics, Teaching Assistant (Professor Louis Maccini and Dr.

Robert Barbera, Johns Hopkins University), Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Fall 2012 (Head

TA), Fall 2013 (Head TA)

Macroeconomic Theory, Teaching Assistant (Professor Laurence Ball, Johns Hopkins

University), Spring 2013

Intermediate Macroeconomics, Teaching Assistant (Professor Kevin McIntyre, McDaniel

College), Spring 2008

Elementary Statistics, Teaching Assistant (Professor John Olsh, McDaniel College), Fall

2007

SOFTWARE/PROGRAMMING SKILLS

Matlab, Eviews, Stata, SAS, TEX, Bloomberg