Deborah Jean Lucas

Anthracite Capital, Inc. is a specialty finance company, which invests in commercial real estate assets on a global basis. Its primary activities are investing in high yielding commercial real estate debt and equity. The company focuses on acquiring pools of performing loans in the form of commercial mortgage-backed securities, issuing secured debt backed by CMBS and providing capital for the commercial real estate industry in the form of mezzanine loan financing and equity. Anthracite Capital was founded in November 1997 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

AccessLex Institute provides student loans and financial aid services. It specializes in providing graduate and professional student loans. The firm provides federally guaranteed loans and private loans for students financing their law, business, medical, dental, health and other graduate degrees. It also creates custom loan options and university-wide programs for schools to meet the needs of their students. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in West Chester, PA.

Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago provides banking and financial services. Its services include asset liability management, cash management, community investment and housing programs, letter of credit, liquidity and funding, and safekeeping. The firm also provides liquidity for home mortgage loans to members approved as participating financial institutions through the Mortgage Partnership Finance program. The company was founded in 1932 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

The MIT Golub Center for Finance & Policy engages in cross-disciplinary and non-partisan research and educational initiatives that address the challenges of financial institutions. The private company is based in Cambridge, MA.

National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. was founded in 1920. The non-profit company is based in Cambridge, MA. The company provides investment research.