Bio
Felipe Severino teaches Corporate Finance in the MBA Program.
Current Research Topics
- Effect of personal bankruptcy on household debt
- The role of collateral lending in small business starts
- Impact of credit supply in house prices
Professional Activities
Academic positions
- Tuck School of Business, 2014–present
- Visiting Researcher, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 2013
- Teaching and Research Assistant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2009–14
- Teaching Assistant, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2002–08
Nonacademic positions
- Researcher, Laboratory of Financial Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2005–08
- Summer Internship, Coca Cola Company, 2004
Awards
- NBER Household Finance Grant 2011, 2016
- MIT Sloan Doctoral Research Forum, First Prize 2014
- MIT Sloan Finance Group Award 2012
- MIT Sloan Nominated for Best TA Award 2012
- MIT Sloan Arnoldo Hax Fellow 2010
- MIT Sloan Doctoral Program Fellowship 2008–14
- Presidente de la República. Chilean Government Scholarship 2008
- Chilean Board of Engineering. Best Chilean Industrial Engineering Student 2008
- Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Academic Excellence Award Best Industrial Engineering Student, 2007
Working Papers
- With M. Brown and B. Coates, “Personal Bankruptcy Protection and Household Debt,” 2015
- With M. Adelino and A. Schoar, "Credit Supply and House Prices: Evidence from Mortgage Market Segmentation,” NBER Working Paper 17832, 2014. CBS News
- With M. Adelino and A. Schoar, "Loan Origination and Defaults in the Mortgage Crisis: Further Evidence," 2015
Selected Publications
- With M. Adelino and A. Schoar, "Loan Origination and Defaults in the Mortgage Crisis: The Role of the Middle Class," Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming
- With M. Adelino and A. Schoar, “House Prices, Collateral and Self-Employment,” Journal of Financial Economics, Volume 117, Issue 2, Pages 288–306. NBER Working Paper 18868, 2014. NBER Digest.