Blog entries by topic
My research and policy work:
Evolving key risks in the banking sector
Liquidity creation and growth - now forthcoming in JEG
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?
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
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
Technology and the future of banking
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
Ordoliberailsm - understanding German economics
Sex and credit - now forthcoming in JBF
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
Is there a natural resource curse in finance?
Competition and Regulation in Financial Markets
The Palgrave Handbook of European Banking
Future challenges for financial regulation
Financial inclusion - measuring progress and progress in measuring
Foreigners vs. natives: lending techniques and pricing
Keep walking: are borrowers willing to walk for their beliefs?
Covid-related entries:
Covid - nobody gets it completely right
Banking and COVID-19: recurrent themes
Finance in the time of Covid - a year on
Restricting financial sector distributions - part 2
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?
Other people's research and conferences
Development banks in time of great volatility
Greenwashing - a panel discussion
Interesting papers - November 2022
Postcard from Florence Sovereign debt and financial stability
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
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
Climate and ethical finance - a conference report
Politics and finance - a conference report
Effectiveness of macro-pru in the Americas
Interesting papers - April 2020
Entrepreneurship and finance - the bright and dark sides
Frontier research in macro-pru
New papers in Review of Finance
Reshaping the Future for Financial Inclusion
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
Bitcoin, blockchain and the future of money
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
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...
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
Research more general
MeToo has arrived in economics acacemia
A Nobel Prize for banking and finance
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
Why Paul Romer is wrong (again)!
10 years after the crisis - some personal observations
Using my research to comment on current policy debates
The demise of Credit Suisse - a case study for the ages
Are we headed for systemic financial distress?
Have Western economists lost Russia?
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
Preserving capital, restricting pay-outs
Data, data, data - postcard from Nairobi
Infrastructure finance in Latin America
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
Eurozone crisis and policies
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
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
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
Another groundhog day in Greece
Politics
What a week! And it's only Tuesday!
Europe's pathway to the future: challenges and opportunities
Fighting enery price inflation
Confronting the past - Germany vs. Russia
Ukraine's struggle and Germany's hesitancy
The battle lines have been drawn
The German obsessions with titles and academic rules
Undermining democracy in the US
Neoliberalism vs. Marxism revisited
Generosity and privileges of big countries
German politics - time to take risks
Populism meets McCarthyism meets authoritariansim
A political watershed in Germany
UK policy and politics, including Brexit
Quo vadis financial centre UK post-Brexit?
What a week! And it's only Tuesday!
The clown leaves, the circus continues
Brexit - a new season with the same themes
Brexit - and it just won't stop
Trump, Brexit and Northern Ireland
Brexit - new season, old themes!
UK exits Erasmus - penny-wise and pound-foolish
Brexit - the final episode - for this season
Brexit - (almost) any news is bad news
Brexit: more action, same theme
Theresa May - a false sense of duty
Brexit soap opera - ready for the next season?
Brexit - kicking the can down the road
Immigration: When populism meets bureaucratic incentives
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?
Brexit trigger - how much cake is left?
From Ms. Maybe to: yes, we may!
Fromg Great Britain and Narrow Minds