Hester Peirce
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Former Senior Research Fellow
Hester Peirce was a senior research fellow from 2012-2018. She departed Mercatus to serve on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and was sworn in on January 11, 2018.
Before joining Mercatus, Peirce served on Senator Richard Shelby’s staff on the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. In that position, she worked on financial regulatory reform following the financial crisis of 2008 as well as oversight of the regulatory implementation of the Dodd-Frank Act.
Peirce served at the Securities and Exchange Commission as a staff attorney and as counsel to Commissioner Paul S. Atkins. Before that, she clerked for Judge Roger B. Andewelt on the Court of Federal Claims and was an associate at a Washington, DC law firm.
Hester Peirce earned her BA in economics from Case Western Reserve University and her JD from Yale Law School.
Latest Work
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
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Book Release: Reframing Financial Regulation
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Business as Usual at the CFPB Is Not Good for Consumers
- | Monetary Policy Monetary Policy
- | Mercatus Original Podcasts Mercatus Original Podcasts
- | Macro Musings Macro Musings
Hester Peirce on *Reframing Financial Regulation*
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Research Papers Research Papers
Revisiting Dodd-Frank
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Failure to Repeal Dodd-Frank Is What Should Have Us Scared
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Public Interest Comments Public Interest Comments
Response to OCC White Paper Exploring Special Purpose National Bank Charters for Fintech Companies
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Books Books
Reframing Financial Regulation
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Book Chapters Book Chapters
Gaining and Shedding Dodd-Frank’s Systemically Important Financial Institution (SIFI) Label
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
Derivatives Clearinghouses: Clearing the Way to Failure
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Book Chapters Book Chapters
Title V and the Creeping Federalization of Insurance Regulation
Latest Work
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Event Video Event Video
Book Release: Reframing Financial Regulation
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Business as Usual at the CFPB Is Not Good for Consumers
- | Monetary Policy Monetary Policy
- | Mercatus Original Podcasts Mercatus Original Podcasts
- | Macro Musings Macro Musings
Hester Peirce on *Reframing Financial Regulation*
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Research Papers Research Papers
Revisiting Dodd-Frank
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Failure to Repeal Dodd-Frank Is What Should Have Us Scared
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Public Interest Comments Public Interest Comments
Response to OCC White Paper Exploring Special Purpose National Bank Charters for Fintech Companies
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Books Books
Reframing Financial Regulation
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Book Chapters Book Chapters
Gaining and Shedding Dodd-Frank’s Systemically Important Financial Institution (SIFI) Label
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
Derivatives Clearinghouses: Clearing the Way to Failure
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Book Chapters Book Chapters
Title V and the Creeping Federalization of Insurance Regulation
Latest Work
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Working Papers Working Papers
Securities Lending and the Untold Story in the Collapse of AIG
- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Working Papers Working Papers
Opening the Gate to Money Market Fund Reform
- | Regulation Regulation
- | Working Papers Working Papers
SEC Regulatory Analysis: A Long Way to Go and a Short Time to Get There
- | Academic & Student Programs Academic & Student Programs
- | Regulation Regulation
- | Working Papers Working Papers
How Are Small Banks Faring under Dodd-Frank?
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Data Visualizations Data Visualizations
The Decline of US Small Banks (2000–2013)
- | Monetary Policy Monetary Policy
- | Data Visualizations Data Visualizations
The Federal Reserve's Expanding Regulatory Authority Initiated by Dodd-Frank
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- | Policy Briefs Policy Briefs
The Federal Reserve's Expanding Regulatory Umbrella
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Policy Briefs Policy Briefs
Rethinking the Volcker Rule
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Books Books
Dodd-Frank: What It Does and Why It's Flawed
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Working Papers Working Papers
Economic Analysis By Federal Financial Regulators
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- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Federal Testimonies Federal Testimonies
Rethinking the Federal Reserve's Many Mandates on its 100-Year Anniversary
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Federal Testimonies Federal Testimonies
Regulatory Landscape: Burdens on Small Financial Institutions
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Public Interest Comments Public Interest Comments
Office of Financial Research Study Titled “Asset Management and Financial Stability”
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Public Interest Comments Public Interest Comments
Money Market Fund Reform; Amendments to Form PF
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Federal Testimonies Federal Testimonies
Regulatory Burdens: The Impact of Dodd-Frank on Community Banking
- | Regulation Regulation
- | Public Interest Comments Public Interest Comments
Financial Market Utilities
Latest Work
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
It's Not Glamorous, but a Very Necessary Financial Reform
- | Monetary Policy Monetary Policy
- | Event Video Event Video
Federal Reserve Reform: Monetary Policy and Beyond
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Five Years Later, Dodd-Frank Is Looking Pretty Haggard
- | Housing Housing
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Investors Are Eager to Fund a Responsible Puerto Rico
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
The CFPB, Not What It Was Hoped to Be
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Regulation In the Form of Big Bank Coercion
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- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Bank Shareholders and Customers Take Backseat to Regulators
- | Regulation Regulation
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Regulatory Bootcamp: PANEL II: Regulation – Effects on People
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- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Consumers Are Much More Powerful than Their Government Protectors
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary