Global Capital Markets Center: Paul B. Bennett

Paul B. Bennett is senior vice president and chief economist of the NYSE.

As chief economist and head of the Research department at the New York Stock Exchange, Paul Bennett is responsible for analytic support for the Exchange's various business and public-policy activities, and for support of academic and other professional research into equities market issues.

Before joining the NYSE in 2001, Mr. Bennett was a senior officer and economist of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he had worked since 1978. At the Fed, Mr. Bennett headed the Capital Markets Research division, was editor of the Bank?s research journal and, prior to that, vice president for Fedwire Funds and Securities Transfers, among other responsibilities.

Mr. Bennett has published numerous papers on finance, economics, and securities markets in both academic and practitioner journals.

Mr. Bennett holds a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University and a B.A. in economics from the University of Chicago.