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Thorsten Beck is Director of the Florence School of Banking and Finance and Professor of Financial Stability at the European University Institute. He is a research
fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and the CESifo. He was professor of banking and finance at Bayes Business School (formerly Cass) in London between 2013 and 2021 and professor of economics from 2008 to 2014 and the founding chair
of the European Banking Center from 2008 to 2013 at Tilburg University. Previously he worked in the research department of the World Bank from 1997 to 2008 and, over the past 12 years, has worked as consultant for – among others - the European
Central Bank, the Bank of England, the BIS, the IMF, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the European Commission, and the German Development Corporation. His research, academic publications and policy work have focused on two major
questions: What is the relationship between finance and economic development? What policies are needed to build a sound and effective financial system? In addition to numerous academic publications in leading economics and finance journals, he has
co-authored several policy reports on access to finance, financial systems in Africa and cross-border banking and he has research and policy experience across a large number of countries across the world. In addition to presentation at numerous academic conferences, including
several keynote addresses, he is invited regularly to policy panels across Europe. He holds a PhD from the University of Virginia and an MA from the University of Tübingen in Germany. He is also Co-editor of the Journal of Banking and Finance and member of the Advisory Scientific Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board
For the academic year 2017/18 he was the 6th Tun Ismail Ali Chair at University of Malaya and Bank Negara Malaysia (Central Bank)
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columns on VoxEU
Recently accepted and forthcoming:
Liquidity Creation, Investment, and Growth (joint with Robin Dottling, Thomas Lambert and Mathijs van Dijk), Journal of Economic Growth
Bank sectoral concentration and risk: Evidence from a worldwide sample of banks (joint with Olivier De Jonghe and Klass Mulier), Journal of Money, Credit and Banking
The Economics of Supranational Bank Supervision (joint with Consuelo Silva Buston and Wolf Wagner), Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
My most recent work:
The real effects of exchange rate depreciation: the role of bank loan supply (joint with Peter Bednarek, Daniel Te Kaat and Natalja von Westernhagen)
Supranational cooperation and regulatory arbitrage (joint with Consuelo Silva Buston and Wolf Wagner)
What explains remittance fees? Panel Evidence (joint with Mathilde Janfis and Kangni Kpdodar)
Out with the New, In with the Old? Bank Supervision and the Composition of Firm Investment (joint with Miguel Ampudia
and Alex Popov).