Finance: Research, Policy and Anecdotes

June 2023	Date
Trump/Johnson - chickens coming home to roost	12. June 2023
May 2023
Central Bank Digital Currencies	29. May 2023
On a personal note - ESRB	23. May 2023
Research conference at the SSM	23. May 2023
Information asymmetries in Brazil	12. May 2023
APRIL 2023
More on EU-UK financial sector cooperation	29. April 2023
Interesting papers - April 2023	24. April 2023
SME financing gaps in Europe	4. April 2023
MARCH 2023
The demise of Credit Suisse - a case study for the ages	28. Mar. 2023
Are we headed for systemic financial distress?	15. Mar. 2023
Is Brexit Done?	3. Mar 2023
Greenwashing - a panel discussion	3. Mar. 2023
FEBRUARY 2023
Ukraine - one year on	24. Feb. 2023
Developmen banks in time of great volatility	21. Feb. 2023
Quo vadis financial centre UK post-Brexit?	14. Feb. 2023
JANUARY 2023
Germany's lack of leadership	23. Jan 2023
Brexit - a new season opening	23. Jan 2023
Competition in Italy	17. Jan. 2023
DECEMBER 2022
2020s - what a decade and it is only 2022	31. Dec, 2022
Evolving key risks in the banking sector	8.Dec, 2002
NOVEMBER 2022
Interesting papers – November 2022	30. Nov, 2022
The financial resource curse	14. Nov, 2022
Completing the banking union	6. Nov, 2022
OCTOBER 2022	Date
Another one bites the dust	28. Oct, 2022
MeToo has arrived in economics academia	24. Oct, 2022
A Nobel Prize for banking and finance	11. Oct, 2022
Liquidity creation and growth – now forthcoming in JEG	3. Oct, 2022
SEPTEMBER 2022	Date
Borrower-based macro-pru	30. Sep, 2022
What a week! And it’s only Tuesday	27. Sep, 2022
Europe's pathway to the future: challenges and opportunities	26. Sep, 2022
Elizabeth II	18. Sep, 2022
AUGUST 2022	Date
Ieke van den Burg Prize 2022	31. Aug, 2022
Ukraine and European integration	8. Aug, 2022
JULY 2022	Date
Hot summer, desperate autumn	24. Jul, 2022
Fighting energy price inflation	23. Jul, 2022
The clown leaves, the circus continues	11. Jul, 2022
JUNE 2022	Date
Europe’s energy policy in the wake of Russia’s aggression	29. Jun, 2022
Postcard from Florence	27. Jun, 2022
Sovereign debt and financial stability	4. Jun, 2022
MAY 2022	Date
Interesting papers - May 2022	22. May, 2022
1984 in the UK	13. May, 2022
Confronting the past - Germany vs. Russia	11. May, 2022
Big techs, QR code payments and financial inclusion	4. May, 2022
APRIL 2022	Date
The Real Bank Lending Channel of Exchange Rate Depreciation	25. Apr, 2022
Macron gagne de nouveau	24. Apr, 2022
Revisiting the drivers of remittance costs	18. Apr, 2022
Ukraine’s struggle and Germany’s hesitancy	15. Apr, 2022
MARCH 2022	Date
Have Western economists lost Russia?	15. Mar, 2022
JBF special issue on green and ethical finance	11. Mar, 2022
The battle lines have been drawn	2. Mar, 2022
FEBRUARY 2022	Date
Prospects of the Global Economy after Covid-19	28. Feb, 2022
Covid – nobody gets it completely right	26. Feb, 2022
The conflict is upon us	22. Feb, 2022
Bank business models - another special JBF issue	11. Feb, 2022
Supranational cooperation and regulatory arbitrage	9. Feb, 2022
JANUARY 2022	Date
Bank complexity – a special JBF issue	26. Jan, 2022
The Russian threat – back to the 1980s?	23. Jan, 2022
Will Video Kill the Radio Star?	19. Jan, 2022
Have Banks Caught Corona?	13. Jan, 2022
Brexit – a new season with the same themes	11. Jan, 2022
Macro-financial policy in the UK	7. Jan, 2022
Price controls and inflation	5. Jan, 2022
DECEMBER 2021	Date
To a Better 2022	22. Dec, 2021
NOVEMBER 2021	Date
Bank Crisis management - what next?	26. Nov, 2021
The new German government	25. Nov, 2021
Covid-19 and Banking – Special JBF issue	14. Nov, 2021
OCTOBER 2021	Date
Postcard from Northern Ireland	25. Oct, 2021
Bundesbank - ready for change?	22. Oct, 2021
MPS: Europe’s banking troubles crystallised in one bank	11. Oct, 2021
SEPTEMBER 2021	Date
The Demise of Doing Business - Goodhart's Law in Action	29. Sep, 2021
Pay-out restrictions - going, going, gone	25. Sep, 2021
German elections 2021	23. Sep, 2021
Fostering FinTech for financial transformation	16. Sep, 2021
Interesting forthcoming papers in JBF	14. Sep, 2021
Afghanistan	12. Sep, 2021
JULY 2021	Date
Brexit -and it just won’t stop	27. Jul, 2021
Ieke van den Burg Prize 2021	20. Jul, 2021
Demography, inequality and inflation	18. Jul, 2021
Long-term finance in Africa - the website	14. Jul, 2021
JUNE 2021	Date
Politics and finance - the second edition	27. Jun, 2021
Trump, Brexit and Northern Ireland	14. Jun, 2021
Bank Supervision and the Composition of Firm Investment	11. Jun, 2021
Economics of supranatl. supervision-forthcoming in JFQA	10. Jun, 2021
MAY 2021	Date
Bank sectoral concentration & risk, forthcoming in JMCB	29. May, 2021
Banking and COVID-19: recurring themes	25. May, 2021
The German obsession with titles and academic rules	17. May, 2021
Weekend of anniversaries	10. May, 2021
Supervising auditors: need for reform	8. May, 2021
APRIL 2021	Date
Politics, philosophy and economists	30. Apr, 2021
Brexit - the first quarter	7. Apr, 2021
MARCH 2021	Date
Some thoughts on the pandemic	30. Mar, 2021
Interesting papers in JBF - March 2021	19. Mar, 2021
Exit strategies	17. Mar, 2021
The Greensill Failure – looking beyond the headlines	9. Mar, 2021
FInance in the Time of COVID-19 - a year on!	6. Mar, 2021
FEBRUARY 2021	Date
Brexit - new season, old themes!	5. Feb, 2021
JANUARY 2021	Date
Bank resolution – time for another reform in Europe?	17. Jan, 2021
On a personal note	13. Jan, 2021
UK exits Erasmus -penny-wise and pound-foolish	10. Jan, 2021
DECEMBER 2020	Date
Looking back, looking forward	24. Dec, 2020
Brexit – the final episode… for this season	21. Dec, 2020
Restricting financial sector's profit distribution - part 2	18. Dec, 2020
Are banks catching Corona?	11. Dec, 2020
Emerging scholar conference	10. Dec, 2020
NOVEMBER 2020	Date
Interesting COVID papers	24. Nov, 2020
Undermining democracy in the US	22. Nov, 2020
A beautiful day	8. Nov, 2020
OCTOBER 2020	Date
Economic policy – the hunt for new ideas	19. Oct, 2020
Nobel prize – much ado about what?	15. Oct, 2020
One cap to bind them all?	1. Oct, 2020
SEPTEMBER 2020	Date
Climate and ethical finance - a conference report	20. Sep, 2020
Surrounded by zombies?	16. Sep, 2020
Doing Business – again in the (wrong) headlines	10. Sep, 2020
Brexit - new excitement!	8. Sep, 2020
AUGUST 2020	Date
Emergency loans and consumption: evidence from Iran	28. Aug, 2020
JULY 2020	Date
A Hamiltonian glimpse in Europe	21. Jul, 2020
COVID-19 in emerging markets: firm-survey evidence	17. Jul, 2020
Brexit – (almost) any news is bad news!	15. Jul, 2020
Cass Business School - what’s in a name?	13. Jul, 2020
Liquidity creation, growth and investment	2. Jul, 2020
JUNE 2020	Date
Politics and finance - a conference report	29. Jun, 2020
Racism and economics	23. Jun, 2020
Effectiveness of macro-pru in the Americas	9. Jun, 2020
Preserving capital, restricting pay-outs	8. Jun, 2020
COVID0-19 response - failing governments	4. Jun, 2020
MAY 2020	Date
Finance and COVID-19 in Africa	29. May, 2020
Hamilton visits Berlin	20. May, 2020
Karlsruhe and the euro	13. May, 2020
Bank resolution and systemic risk	7. May, 2020
Interesting papers - May 2020	1. May, 2020
APRIL 2020	Date
Credit guarantees in the time of COVID-19	26. Apr, 2020
National policies for a global pandemic?	22. Apr, 2020
The case for Corona-bonds	7. Apr, 2020
Interesting papers - April 2020	5. Apr, 2020
MARCH 2020	Date
Finance in times of COVID-19 - what's next?	16. Mar, 2020
Finance in times of COVID-19	6. Mar, 2020
FEBRUARY 2020	Date
Data, data, data - postcard from Nairobi	27. Feb, 2020
Bank resolution in Portugal and across the globe	21. Feb, 2020
Postcard from Barbados	7. Feb, 2020
JANUARY 2020	Date
Brexit, finally!	31. Jan, 2020
DECEMBER 2019	Date
Financial stability in Paris	23. Dec, 2019
Brexit - a new trilemma	13. Dec, 2019
Infrastructure finance in Latin America	6. Dec, 2019
Entrepreneurship and Finance – the Bright and Dark Sides	2. Dec, 2019
NOVEMBER 2019	Date
Technology and the future of banking	28. Nov, 2019
Neo-liberalism vs. Marxism revisited	15. Nov, 2019
OCTOBER 2019	Date
Long-term finance in Africa	30. Oct, 2019
Brexit-more action, same themes	25. Oct, 2019
Postcard from Beijing	20. Oct, 2019
Randomistas rule	16. Oct, 2019
Off to Helsinki	9. Oct, 2019
SEPTEMBER 2019	Date
Frontier research in macro-pru	27. Sep, 2019
Brexit and legal traditions	25. Sep, 2019
Finance and poverty reduction in India	24. Sep, 2019
On German Euro-populism	22. Sep, 2019
Is cross-border supervisory cooperation effective?	5. Sep, 2019
Postcard from Dhaka	3. Sep, 2019
1 September 1939	1. Sep, 2019
AUGUST 2019	Date
Brexit - the crisis is here	29. Aug, 2019
JULY 2019	Date
New papers in Review of Finance	31. Jul, 2019
Boris, oh, Boris	13. Jul, 2019
JUNE 2019	Date
Basel III and SME Finance	30. Jun, 2019
MAY 2019	Date
The architecture of supervision	27. May, 2019
Theresa May – a false sense of duty!	24. May, 2019
Second young writers workshop	11. May, 2019
Looking beyond the borders of the banking union	8. May, 2019
APRIL 2019	Date
Making Basel III work for the emerging world	23. Apr, 2019
Brexit - the long view	22. Apr, 2019
Off to Tallinn	3. Apr, 2019
MARCH 2019	Date
Postcard from Mumbai	24. Mar, 2019
Brexit - what a week!	15. Mar, 2019
Brexit - this week's episode	8. Mar, 2019
Better in or better out? Sweden and the banking union	8. Mar, 2019
Reshaping the Future for Financial Inclusion	2. Mar, 2019
FEBRUARY 2019	Date
Why Paul Romer is wrong (again)!	25. Feb, 2019
JANUARY 2019	Date
Europe's banking union - two steps backwards	27. Jan, 2019
Brexit soap opera - ready for the next season?	16. Jan, 2019
DECEMBER 2018	Date
Looking back, looking forward	14. Dec, 2018
Micro-evidence on macroprudential policies	11. Dec, 2018
Baby steps towards completing the banking union	6. Dec, 2018
Green finance	3. Dec, 2018
NOVEMBER 2018	Date
SME growth constraints in low-income countries	30. Nov, 2018
The world of evaluation – from a development bank’s view	28. Nov, 2018
Brexit - habemus pactum?	25. Nov, 2018
10 years after the crisis - a conference report	7. Nov, 2018
SEPTEMBER 2018	Date
On the road - Basel III in DC and EP in Vienna	30. Sep, 2018
10 years after the crisis – some personal observations	21. Sep, 2018
Brexit Trilemma Revisited	20. Sep, 2018
Interesting papers - September 2018 issue	14. Sep, 2018
Basel standards in developing countries	12. Sep, 2018
AUGUST 2018	Date
Keep walking? Islamic bank borrowers don’t mind distance	9. Aug, 2018
JULY 2018	Date
Handbook of Finance and Development	26. Jul, 2018
Interesting papers - July 2018 issue	23. Jul, 2018
Generosity & privileges of big countries	23. Jul, 2018
More thoughts on Brexit	23. Jul, 2018
Italy & Euro - can't live with it, can't live without it	9. Jul, 2018
JUNE 2018	Date
Global Findex in London	22. Jun, 2018
Brexit – kicking the can down the road	8. Jun, 2018
Italexit?	8. Jun, 2018
MAY 2018	Date
Basel III-Unintended Consequences for Emerging Markets	23. May, 2018
Bitcoin, blockchain and the future of money	10. May, 2018
Political change in Malaysia	10. May, 2018
Immigration: When populism meets bureaucratic incentives	6. May, 2018
More on financial inclusion	4. May, 2018
APRIL 2018	Date
Economic Policy Panel in Zurich	12. Apr, 2018
MARCH 2018	Date
What is new in the financial inclusion literature?	26. Mar, 2018
The trilemma of Brexit	19. Mar, 2018
Brexit - how the political class has failed its people	3. Mar, 2018
The economics of supranational supervision	2. Mar, 2018
FEBRUARY 2018	Date
Ordoliberalism on the road - DC and Vienna	12. Feb, 2018
JANUARY 2018	Date
Doing Business - time to dump the rankings	17. Jan, 2018
Mobile Money and Firm Growth	16. Jan, 2018
Random links and thoughts on New Year’s Day	1. Jan, 2018
DECEMBER 2017	Date
Brexit - the first phase is over	16. Dec, 2017
NOVEMBER 2017	Date
Research in Islamic finance - looking forward	29. Nov, 2017
German politics - time to take risks	29. Nov, 2017
Ordoliberalism - understanding German economics	23. Nov, 2017
Populism meets McCarthyism meets authoritarianism	6. Nov, 2017
Sex and Credit - now forthcoming in JBF	5. Nov, 2017
OCTOBER 2017	Date
Economic Policy Panel in Brussels	18. Oct, 2017
Mobile Money and Financial Development	17. Oct, 2017
Whither Europe?	8. Oct, 2017
SEPTEMBER 2017	Date
A political watershed in Germany	29. Sep, 2017
Postcard from Kuala Lumpur	1. Sep, 2017
The uproar about EJMR	1. Sep, 2017
AUGUST 2017	Date
Forthcoming in Review of Finance	24. Aug, 2017
JULY 2017	Date
Some random summer thoughts	30. Jul, 2017
Banking union at three	4. Jul, 2017
JUNE 2017	Date
The UK conundrum of monetary and macro-prudential policies	30. Jun, 2017
Helmut Kohl, 1930-2017	16. Jun, 2017
Capital buffer, loan growth and fragility	14. Jun, 2017
More turmoil in British politics	9. Jun, 2017
Banking union passes first test	9. Jun, 2017
Basel standards in LICs	8. Jun, 2017
MAY 2017	Date
Fixing the Eurozone and Beyond	31. May, 2017
Bank bail-in: The effects on credit supply and real economy	28. May, 2017
How to publish in finance journals?	25. May, 2017
Sectoral specialization by banks – new measures, new results	9. May, 2017
Interesting papers I have been reading	7. May, 2017
Macron gagne! Not a triumph but a wake-up call	7. May, 2017
APRIL 2017	Date
Resolution frameworks matter–even if they permit bail-outs!	29. Apr, 2017
A signal of hope from France?	24. Apr, 2017
AMC for the Eurozone – reviving a good idea	24. Apr, 2017
Economic Policy Panel in Malta	20. Apr, 2017
Another election - another Brexit debate?	18. Apr, 2017
Quo vadis Europe? In London, Frankfurt, Brussels, Paris	14. Apr, 2017
Gibraltar and Brexit	3. Apr, 2017
MARCH 2017	Date
Brexit trigger - how much cake is left?	29. Mar, 2017
Quo vadis European Union?	1. Mar, 2017
FEBRUARY 2017	Date
Is there a natural resource curse in finance?	26. Feb, 2017
Rethinking the effects of deindustrialization	20. Feb, 2017
Another Groundhog Day in Greece	15. Feb, 2017
Alternative fact of the month	15. Feb, 2017
Competition and Regulation in Financial Markets	9. Feb, 2017
JANUARY 2017	Date
From Ms. May-be to: yes, we may!	21. Jan, 2017
Economists in crisis?	7. Jan, 2017
When Arm's Length is Too Far	7. Jan, 2017
DECEMBER 2016	Date
Happy Holidays	16. Dec, 2016
Emerging scholar conference… and the winner is…	15. Dec, 2016
Postcard from Cape Town	9. Dec, 2016
The Palgrave Handbook of European Banking	9. Dec, 2016
Interesting papers and events	6. Dec, 2016
NOVEMBER 2016	Date
Future challenges for financial regulation	22. Nov, 2016
Financial inclusion–measuring progress and progress in measuring	18. Nov, 2016
Nascent stock exchanges	17. Nov, 2016
After the Brexit shock the Trump shock - what's next?	9. Nov, 2016
A trend back to books in economics	8. Nov, 2016
Finance and Development: The Unfinished Agenda	8. Nov, 2016
OCTOBER 2016	Date
Foreigners vs. Natives: Lending Techniques and Pricing	17. Oct, 2016
Economic Policy Panel in Florence	13. Oct, 2016
From Great Britain to Narrow Minds	9. Oct, 2016
SEPTEMBER 2016	Date
Alternative finance - new opportunities or new risks?	30. Sep, 2016
European banking – too late to grow out of the crisis?	29. Sep, 2016
Bailing in vs. bailing out	14. Sep, 2016
AUGUST 2016	Date
Interest rate caps in Kenya	26. Aug, 2016
Cross-border regulatory cooperation Down Under	23. Aug, 2016
Some interesting papers I have been reading	21. Aug, 2016
More on Brexit	1. Aug, 2016
Keep walking: Are borrowers willing to walk for their beliefs?	1. Aug, 2016
JULY 2016	Date
Long-term finance-the new financial development frontier	24. Jul, 2016
JUNE 2016	Date
Three days after the Brexit vote – some early thoughts	27. Jun, 2016
Making the Eurozone more resilient	26. Jun, 2016
May you live in interesting times	24. Jun, 2016
A new blog	20. Jun, 2016