Karen Pence (economist)

Karen Pence
Alma mater
Scientific career
FieldsReal estate economics, financial economics
InstitutionsFederal Reserve Board of Governors
Websitehttps://works.bepress.com/karen_pence/

Karen M. Pence is an American economist who is Deputy Associate Director of the Research and Statistics Division of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, responsible for the Survey of Consumer Finances, and former chair of the Board of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. She is a past president of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association.

Her research focuses on household housing finance, particularly mortgage lending and mortgage default.