Adam is a Senior Economist in the Division of Depositor and Consumer Protection having previously served in the Division of Complex Institution Supervision and Resolution. His research interests span household finance, public economics, labor economics, small business dynamics, and financial intermediation. He is a non-resident scholar at the Georgetown University Center for Retirement Initiatives (CRI) within the McCourt School of Public Policy. Before joining the FDIC, Adam served as an Economist at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. During that time, he co-led the Retail and Behavioral Finance Working Group and served as the SEC’s primary economic advisor to the U.S. Financial Literacy and Education Commission (FLEC). Prior to his doctoral studies, Adam was a Research Associate at the Lewin Group and before that a Financial Advisor in the financial services industry. He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in applied economics and an M.A. in statistics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania as well as a B.S. in decision theory from Duke University.
Research Interests
Household Finance; Public Economics; Labor Economics; Small Business Dynamics; Financial Intermediation
Adam Bloomfield, Kyung Min Lee, Jay Philbrick, and Sita Slavov. 2024. “How Do Firms Respond to State Retirement Plan Mandates?,” Economic Inquiry, (2024): 1–24
Adam Bloomfield, Travis Cyronek, and Christos Makridis, “Decomposing Growth in Employer Compensation Costs,” (September 2024)
Adam Bloomfield, Lucas Goodman, Manita Rao, and Sita Slavov, “Why Do Employers Establish Retirement Savings Plans? Evidence from State “Auto-IRA” Policies,” (Working Paper, no. 32817, National Bureau of Economic Research, August 2024)
Adam Bloomfield, Alycia Chin, and Adam Craig, “The Allure of Round Number Prices for Individual Investors,” (Working Paper, no. 2024-02, Georgetown University Center for Retirement Initiatives, July 2024)
Adam Bloomfield, Ngoc Dao, and Manita Rao, “How Do State Retirement Savings Policies Affect Labor Supply?,” (Working Paper, no. 2024-01, Georgetown University Center for Retirement Initiatives, May 2024)
Adam Bloomfield, Kyung Min Lee, Jay Philbrick, and Sita Slavov, “How Do Firms Respond to State Retirement Plan Mandates?,” (Working Paper, no. 31398, National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2023)
Adam Bloomfield, Alycia Chin, and Angela Fontes, “Introducing a Concise Measure of Household Wealth,” (August 2022)