Daniel Cooper is an Economist in the Macroeconomic/Financial Markets section of the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. His doctoral dissertation examined the relationship between housing wealth and household behavior, and his main research interests relate to the housing market and consumer behavior. He is currently working on projects related to how falling house prices and changing consumer optimism impact household spending, as well as how changes in sales tax rates impact households' intertemporal spending decisions. Cooper holds a BA in economics from Amherst College. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan.
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Evidence of a housing ATM effect? The destination of home equity extracted by US households during the recent housing boom
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