Christa H.S. Bouwman is Associate Professor of Finance and RepublicBank Research Fellow at Mays Business School at Texas A&M University; Fellow of the Wharton Financial Institutions Center; and a Research Associate at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. She was Associate Professor of Banking & Finance at Case Western Reserve University, where she also held the Lewis-Progressive Chair; Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance at MIT’s Sloan School of Management; and Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Professor Bouwman’s research interests are in Financial Intermediation and Corporate Finance. She is an Associate Editor at three journals. Her research papers have been published in the Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Banking & Finance, MIT / Sloan Management Review, and Oxford Handbook of Banking. She is co-author of Bank Liquidity Creation and Financial Crises (Elsevier). Professor Bouwman worked for five years at ABN AMRO Bank and as a part-time litigative consultant for the U.S. Department of Justice. She has been nominated for numerous undergraduate and MBA Excellence in Teaching awards. She received a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Michigan in 2005, an MBA from Cornell University in 1993, and a B.A./M.A. in Economics and Business (cum laude) from the University of Groningen – the Netherlands in 1993..
