About
Robert E. Carpenter is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), Special Assistant to the Provost for Institutional Effectiveness, and a Faculty Associate for the Maryland Institute of Policy Analysis and Research at UMBC.
Research interests
The current focus of his research is the performance of minority-owned banks, and the impact of policies enacted to combat the financial crisis.
His academic research focuses on how information problems in capital-market create frictions that limit firms’ access to funds and their investment and growth, especially small, high technology firms and how these frictions contribute to a “financial accelerator” that can amplify the transmission of monetary policy.
Teaching interests
He teaches finance, macroeconomics, monetary theory and policy, risk management, and banking.
Education
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Ph D
— Washington University, Economics (1992) An empirical investigation of the financial hierarchy hypothesis
- MA — Washington University, Economics (1988)
- BA — University of Michigan-Flint, Economics (1986)