Adam is a Senior Economist in the Division of Depositor and Consumer Protection. His research interests span household finance, public economics, labor economics, small business dynamics, and financial intermediation. Previously, Adam was an Economist at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, where he co-led the Retail and Behavioral Finance Working Group and served as an advisor to the U.S. Financial Literacy and Education Commission (FLEC). 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. Adam is also a non-resident scholar at the Georgetown University Center for Retirement Initiatives.
Research Interests
Household Finance; Public Economics; Labor Economics; Small Business Dynamics; Financial Intermediation
Adam Bloomfield, Lucas Goodman, Manita Rao, and Sita Slavov. 2025. “State Auto-IRA Policies and Firm Behavior: Lessons from Administrative Tax Data,” Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 247 (2025): 105403
Adam Bloomfield, Kyung Min Lee, Jay Philbrick, and Sita Slavov. 2024. “How Do Firms Respond to State Retirement Plan Mandates?,” Economic Inquiry, Vol. 63, no. 1 (2025): 265-288.
Adam Bloomfield, Jacob Berman, and Sita Slavov, “Playing Catch-up with Health Savings: How Tax Incentives Influence Saving Behavior,” (June 2025)
Adam Bloomfield, Lucas Goodman, Shanthi Ramnath, and Sita Slavov, “How Do Tax Incentives Influence Employer Decisions to Offer Retirement Benefits,” (May 2025)
Adam Bloomfield, Travis Cyronek, and Christos Makridis, “Decomposing Historical Changes in Employer Costs and Contributions to Inequality,” (SSRN, March 2025)
Adam Bloomfield, Lucas Goodman, Manita Rao, and Sita Slavov, “State Auto-IRA Policies and Firm Behavior: Lessons from Administrative Tax Data,” (Working Paper, no. 32817, National Bureau of Economic Research, August 2024, Revised April 2025)
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, Revised April 2025)
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, Revised March 2025)
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, Revised June 2024)
Adam Bloomfield, Alycia Chin, and Angela Fontes, “Introducing a Concise Measure of Household Wealth,” (August 2022)