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
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Statement of Hester Maria Peirce
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Financing the Future: The Role of the Financial System in Fostering Economic Growth
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Examining Legislative Proposals to Preserve Consumer Choice and Financial Independence
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It's Not Glamorous, but a Very Necessary Financial Reform
- | Monetary Policy Monetary Policy
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Federal Reserve Reform: Monetary Policy and Beyond
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Five Years Later, Dodd-Frank Is Looking Pretty Haggard
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Federal Testimonies Federal Testimonies
The Dodd-Frank Act and Regulatory Overreach
- | Housing Housing
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Investors Are Eager to Fund a Responsible Puerto Rico
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The CFPB, Not What It Was Hoped to Be
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Regulation In the Form of Big Bank Coercion
Latest Work
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Federal Testimonies Federal Testimonies
Statement of Hester Maria Peirce
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Event Video Event Video
Financing the Future: The Role of the Financial System in Fostering Economic Growth
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Federal Testimonies Federal Testimonies
Examining Legislative Proposals to Preserve Consumer Choice and Financial Independence
- | 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
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Federal Testimonies Federal Testimonies
The Dodd-Frank Act and Regulatory Overreach
- | 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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- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
We Must Resist Becoming "Bank-Centric" in the US
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No, Mr. Tarullo, We're Not All Macroprudentialists Now
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Previewing the President’s Announcement Changing the Fiduciary Standard
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Scrap Regulations that Thin the Ranks of Small Banks
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In Washington, 'Austerity' Is a 67% Budget Increase
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What Australia Can Teach Us About Regulatory Hoarding
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MetLife Goes to Court
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Dodd-Frank Most Likely To Be At the Root Of a Future Crisis
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FINRA's Holiday 'CARDS'
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