My research
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
Other people's research and conferences
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
generally
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
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
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
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
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
Yes,
economists have humour - sometimes!
Random links and thoughts on New Year's Day
Alternative fact of the month
Happy Holidays!