Welcome!

My name is Brendan Laliberte. I hold an M.S. in Finance from Cornell University, where my research focused on asset pricing and the interaction between finance and law. I am currently applying to law school and plan to pursue legal training with a focus on corporate finance and banking regulation.

Broadly, I am interested in how economic progress is shaped by the tension between financial firms’ profit-maximizing behavior, regulatory constraints, and the real economy. My work emphasizes how institutional design and legal frameworks influence risk-taking, market discipline, and financial stability.

My recent research examines how equity and debt markets price risk at banks and nonbank financial institutions around benchmark interest rate surprises, with implications for banking regulation and monetary transmission.

Prior to graduate study at Cornell, I was a research assistant at the Federal Reserve, supporting economists in the Banking and Financial Markets group and the Center for Indian Country Development at the Federal Reserve Banks of Kansas City and Minneapolis.