Ukraine conflict
Ukraine and European integration
Confronting the past - Germany vs. Russia
Ukraine's struggle and Germany's hesitancy
The battle lines have been drawn
The conflict is upon us
My research and policy work:
Europe's
energy policy in the wake of Russia's aggression
Big techs, QR code payments
and financial inclusion
The real bank lending channel of exchange
rate depreciation
Revisiting the drivers of remittance costs
Prospects of the Global Economy after Covid-19
Will video kill the radio start?
Have Banks Caught Corona?
Macro-financial policy in the UK
Fostering FinTech for financial transformation
Long-term finance in Africa
- the website
Bank Supervision and the Composition of FIrm Investment
Economics of supranational bank supervision - forthcoming in JFQA
Bank sectoral concentration and risk - forthcoming in
JMCB
Are banks catching Corona?
Emergency loans and consumption: evidence from Ira
COVID-19 in
emerging markets: firm-survey evidence
National policies for a global pandemic?
Liquidity creation, growth and investment
Bank resolution and systemic risk
National policies for a global pandemic?
Bank resolution in Portugal and across the globe
Postcard from Barbados
Technology and the future of banking
Long-term finance in Africa
Finance and poverty reduction in India
Is cross-border supervisory cooperation effective?
The architecture of supervision
Looking beyond the borders of the banking union
Making Basel III work for the emerging world
Micro-evidence on macroprudential policies
SME growth constraints
in low-income countries
Basel standards in developing countries
Keep walking? Islamic borrowers don't mind distance
Handbook of Finance and Development
Basel III - Unintended Consequences for Emerging Markets
The economics
of supranational supervision
Ordoliberalism on the road - in DC and Vienna
Mobile Money and Firm Growth
Ordoliberailsm - understanding German economics
Sex and credit - now forthcoming in JBF
Basel standards in LICs
Bank Bail-in: the effects on credit supply and real economy
Sectoral
specialization: new measures, new results
Quo vadis Europe? In London, Frankfurt,
Brussels and Paris
Quo vadis European Union?
Is there a natural resource curse in finance?
Competition and Regulation
in Financial Markets
When Arm's Length is too far
The Palgrave Handbook of European Banking
Future challenges for financial regulation
Financial
inclusion - measuring progress and progress in measuring
Nascent stock exchanges
Foreigners vs. natives: lending techniques and pricing
Bailing-in vs. bailing out
Keep walking: are borrowers willing to walk for their beliefs?
Long-term
finance: the new financial development frontier
Covid-related entries:
Covid - nobody gets it completely right
Have Banks Caught Corona?
Price Controls and Inflation
Banking and COVID-19: recurrent themes
Some thoughts on the pandemic
Exit strategies
Finance in the time of Covid - a year on
Restricting financial sector distributions - part 2
Are banks catching Corona?
Surrounded by zombies?
Emergency loans and consumption: evidence from Iran
COVID-19 in
emerging markets: firm-survey evidence
Preserving capital, restricting pay-outs
COVID-19 response - failing governments
FInance and COVID-19 in Africa
Credit guarantees in the time of COVID-19
National policies for a global pandemic?
The case for Corona-bonds
Finance in times of COVID-19 -what's next?
Finance in times of COVID-19
Other people's research and conferences
Postcard from Florence Sovereign debt and financial stability
Interesting papers - May 2022
JBF special issue on green and ethical finance
Bank business models - another special JBF issue
Bank complexity - a special JBF issue
Bank crisis management - what next?
Covid-19 and Banking - Special JBF issue
Interesting papers in JBF - September 2021
Ieke van den Burg Prize 2021
Demography, inequality and inflation
Politics and finance - the second edition
Supervising auditors: the need for
reforms
Interesting papers in JBF - March 2021
Bank resolution - time for another reform in Europe
Emerging scholars conference
Interesting Covid papers
One cap to bind them all?
Climate and ethical finance - a conference report
Politics and finance
- a conference report
Effectiveness of macro-pru in the Americas
Interesting papers - May 2020
Interesting papers - April 2020
Financial stability in Paris
Entrepreneurship and finance - the bright and dark sides
Off to Helsinki
Frontier research in macro-pru
New papers in Review of Finance
Basel III and SME finance
Off to Tallinn
Postcard from Mumbai
Reshaping the Future for Financial Inclusion
Green finance
10 years after the crisis - a conference report
On the road - Basel III in DC and EP in Vienna
Interesting papers - September
2018 issue
Interesting papers - July 2018 issue
Global Findex in London
Bitcoin, blockchain and the future of money
More on financial inclusion
Economic Policy panel in Zurich
What is new in the financial inclusion literature?
Research in
Islamic finance - looking forward
Economic Policy panel in Brussels
Mobile money and financial development
Postcard from Kuala Lumpur
Forthcoming in Review of Finance, August 2017
Capital buffers, loan growth and fragility
Interesting papers I have been reading - May 2017
Economic Policy Panel in Malta
- April 2017
Rethinking the effects of deindustrialization
Competition and Regulation in Financial Markets
Emerging scholars conference - and the winner is...
Postcard from Cape Town
The Palgrave Handbook of European Banking
Interesting papers and events - December 2016
Finance and Development
- the unfinished agenda
Economic Policy Panel in Florence - October 2016
Alternative finance - new opportunities or new risks
Some interesting papers I have been reading - August 2016
Long-term
finance: the new financial development frontier
Research more general
Doing Business - Goodhart's Law in action
The German obsession
with titles and academic rules
Nobel Prize - much ado about what
Economic Policy - the hunt for new ideas
Doing Businesss - again in the (wrong) headlines
Cass Business School - what's
in a name
Racism and economics
Postcard from Beijing
Randomistas rule!
Second young writers workshop
Why Paul Romer is wrong (again)!
10 years after the crisis - some personal observations
The uproar about EJMR
How to publish in finance journals
Economists in crisis?
A trend back to books in economics
Using
my research to comment on current policy debates
Have Western economists lost Russia?
Price Controls and Inflation
Pay-out restrictions - going, going, gone
Trump, Brexit and Northern Ireland
Politics, philosophy and economists
Supervising auditors: the need for reforms
The Greensill failure
- looking beyond the headlines
Bank resolution - time for another reform in Europe
Racism and economics
Preserving capital, restricting pay-outs
Data, data, data - postcard from
Nairobi
Postcard from Barbados
Infrastructure finance in Latin America
On German Euro-populism
Postcard from Dhaka
Better in or better out - Sweden and the banking union
The
world of evaluation - from a development bank's viewpoint
Basel III - Unintended
Consequences for Emerging Markets
Doing Business - Time to Dump the Rankings
Resolution frameworks matter even if they permit bail-outs
Bailing-in vs. bailing out
Interest rate caps in Kenya
Cross-border regulatory cooperation
down under
Eurozone crisis and policies
The new German government
Bundesbank - ready for change
Monte dei Paschi di Siena: Europe's banking troubles crystallised in one bank
Politics, philosophy and economists
Bank resolution - time for another reform in Europe
A Hamiltonian glimpse in Europe
Hamilton visits Berlin
Karlsruhe and the Euro
On German Euro-populism
Europe's banking union - two steps backwards
Baby steps towards completing the banking union
10 years after the
crisis - a conference report
10 years after the crisis - some personal observations
Italy and the Euro - can't live with it, can't live without it
Italexit?
Whither
Europe?
Banking union at three: toddler with tantrums
Banking union passes first test
Fixing the Eurozone and Beyond
Bank Bail-in: the effects
on credit supply and real economy
Macron gagne: not a triumph, but a wake-up call
AMC for the Eurozone - reviving a good idea
Quo vadis Europe? In London, Frankfurt, Brussels and Paris
Quo vadis European Union?
Another groundhog day in Greece
European banking - too late to grow out of the crisis?
Bailing-in vs. bailing out
Making the Eurozone more resilient
Politics
Hot summer, desperate autumn
Fighting enery price inflation
Confronting the past - Germany vs. Russia
Macron gagne de nouveau!
Ukraine's struggle and Germany's hesitancy
The battle lines have been drawn
The conflict is upon us
The new German government
German elections 2021
Afghanistan
The German obsessions with titles and academic rules
Undermining
democracy in the US
A beautiful day
Racism and economics
Neoliberalism vs. Marxism revisited
1 September 1939
Generosity and privileges of big countries
Political change in Malaysia
German politics - time to take risks
Populism meets McCarthyism meets authoritariansim
A political watershed in Germany
Helmut Kohl, 1930-2017
Macron gagne: not a triumph, but a wake-up call
A signal of hope from France
After the Brexit shock the Trump shock - what's next?
UK policy and politics, including Brexit
The clown leaves, the circus continues
1984 in the UK
Brexit - a new season with the same themes
Postcard from Nothern Ireland
Brexit - and it just won't stop
Trump, Brexit and Northern Ireland
Brexit - the first quarter
Brexit - new season, old themes!
UK exits Erasmus - penny-wise and pound-foolish
Brexit - the final episode - for this season
Brexit - new excitement
Brexit - (almost) any news is bad news
Brexit finally
Brexit-a new trilemma
Brexit: more action, same theme
Brexit and legal traditions
Brexit-the crisis is here
Boris, oh Boris!
Theresa May - a false sense of duty
Brexit - the long view
Brexit - what a week!
Brexit - this week's episode
Brexit soap opera - ready for the next
season?
Brexit - habemus pactum?
Brexit Trilemma Revisited
More thoughts on Brexit
Brexit - kicking the can down the road
Immigration: When populism meets bureaucratic incentives
The trilemma of Brexit
Brexit - how the political class has failed its people
Brexit - the first phase is over
The UK conundrum of monetary and macro-prudential policies
More turmoil in British
politics
Another election - another Brexit debate?
Gibraltar and Brexit
Brexit trigger - how much cake is left?
From Ms. Maybe to: yes, we may!
Fromg Great Britain and Narrow Minds
More on Brexit
Three days after the Brexit vote - some early
thoughts
May you live in interesting times
Personal stuff
To a Better 2022
Weekend of anniversaries
On a personal note
Looking back, looking forward
Random links and thoughts on New Year's Day
Alternative fact of the month
Happy Holidays!