Luke M. Olson

Quantitative Analyst, 2020 - Present
Office of Financial Research

Financial Analyst, 2018 - 2020
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

Economic Research Analyst, 2008 - 2018
Federal Trade Commission

Bank Competition and Strategic Adaptation to Climate Change (2024) with Dasol Kim and Toan Phan
Office of Financial Research Working Paper no. 24-03.
Who Participates in Cleared Repo? (2021) with R. Jay Kahn
Office of Financial Research Brief no. 21-01.
Machine learning loss given default for corporate debt. (2021) with Min Qi, Xiaofei Zhang, and Xinlei Zhao
Journal of Empirical Finance, 64, 144-159.
Estimating the causal effect of entry on generic drug prices using Hatch–Waxman exclusivity (2019) with Brett Wendling
Review of Industrial Organization, 53(1), 139-172.
See also: Federal Trade Commission Working Paper 317.
Do retail mergers affect competition? Evidence from grocery retailing. (2018) with Daniel Hosken and Loren Smith
Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 27(1), 3-22.
See also: Federal Trade Commission Working Paper 313.
Knowing when to quit: Default choices, demographics and fraud. (2017) with Robert Letzler, Ryan Sandler, Ania Jaroszewicz, and Isaac Knowles
The Economic Journal, 127(607), 2617-2640.
Can entry or exit event studies inform horizontal merger analysis? Evidence from grocery retailing. (2016) with Daniel Hosken and Loren Smith
Economic Inquiry, 54(1), 342-360.
Racial differences in mortgage denials over the housing cycle: Evidence from US metropolitan areas. (2015) with Christopher Wheeler
Journal of Housing Economics, 30, 33-49.
Dynamics in a mature industry: Entry, exit, and growth of big‐box grocery retailers. (2015) with Daniel Hanner, Daniel Hosken, and Loren Smith
Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 24(1), 22-46.
See also: Federal Trade Commission Working Paper 308.

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