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Laurie Goodman
Institute Fellow
Housing Finance Policy Center
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  • Outside Affiliations
  • Too many decisions in Washington, DC, are made on ideological grounds, without regard to the data. The opportunity to found the Housing Finance Policy Center at Urban, doing data-driven analysis of public policy issues, was too important to pass up.

    Laurie Goodman is an Institute fellow and the founder of the Housing Finance Policy Center at the Urban Institute. The center provides policymakers data-driven analyses of housing finance policy issues they can depend on for relevance, accuracy, and independence. Before joining Urban, Goodman spent 30 years as an analyst and research department manager at several Wall Street firms. From 2008 to 2013, she was a senior managing director at Amherst Securities Group LP, a boutique broker-dealer specializing in securitized products, where her strategy effort became known for its analysis of housing policy issues. From 1993 to 2008, Goodman was head of global fixed income research and manager of US securitized products research at UBS and predecessor firms, which were ranked first by Institutional Investor for 11 straight years. Before that, she held research and portfolio management positions at several Wall Street firms. She began her career as a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Goodman was inducted into the Fixed Income Analysts Hall of Fame in 2009.

    Goodman serves on the board of directors of MFA Financial and Arch Capital Group Ltd. and is a consultant to the Amherst Group. She is also on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Consumer Advisory Board. Goodman has published more than 200 journal articles and has coauthored and coedited five books. She has a BA in mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania and an AM and PhD in economics from Stanford University.

    Research Areas
    Housing finance
    Tags
    Finance
    Community Reinvestment Act
    Housing Finance at a Glance: A Monthly Chartbook


    Outside Affiliations
    MFA Financial
    Member, board of directors
    Arch Capital Group Ltd.
    Member, board of directors
    Home Point Capital Inc.
    Member, board of directors
    Amherst Group
    Consultant
    Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Consumer Advisory Board
    Member
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