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Welcome to the personal website of Dr. Christoph Basten, FRM.

I am an economist trained at Oxford, Pompeu Fabra, Harvard, and the European University Institute. My professional experience spans both policy and academia. In policy, I have worked on bank risk management at the Swiss Banking Supervision (FINMA), contributed to the preparation of monetary policy at the European Central Bank, and am contributing to international financial regulation at FINMA. In academia, I have held research and teaching positions at ETH Zurich and (as non-tenure-track Assistant Professor) at the University of Zurich, where I am currently a Visiting Fellow.

My recent research focuses on interactions across products within bank–client relationships, which I conceptualize as cross-selling in financial services. In Basten and Juelsrud (RFS 2026), we document the quantitative importance of cross-selling and its implications for product pricing, bank profitability, and household welfare. Building on this, Basten and Juelsrud (JFE forthc.) show how such linkages shape monetary policy transmission. Basten, Cucic, and Schepens (2026) examine how transmission depends on whether depositors also hold securities (stocks, bonds, or funds) with their bank, while Acharya, Basten, Juelsrud, and Liaudinskas analyze the implications of cross-selling for bank liquidity risk.

More generally, my recent areas of research include banking and its regulation, monetary policy, household and corporate finance. Earlier, I have also worked on questions in labor economics, public finance, and industrial organization.

For further information, please see my LinkedIn, Google Scholar, ORCID, or SSRN profiles. To get in touch, you can email me at cc.basten@gmail.com