Research

A. Publications in Peer-Reviewed Journals

Basten, Christoph & Ragnar Juelsrud (2026), Cross-Selling in Bank Household Relationships. Mechanisms and Implications for Pricing. Review of Financial Studies (RFS).
Kukk, Merike, Toczynski, Jan, and Christoph Basten (2025), Beyond the Headline: How Personal Inflation Exposure Shapes Households’ Financial Choices, Journal of Monetary Economics (JME) .
Basten, Christoph, and Steven Ongena (2024), Mortgage lending through a FinTech Web Platform. The roles of competition, diversification, and automation. Journal of Banking and Finance.
Basten, Christoph, and Mike Mariathasan (2023), Interest Rate Pass-Through and Bank Risk-Taking Under Negative-Rate Policies with Tiered Remuneration of Central Bank Reserves. Journal of Financial Stability. Earlier versions: SFI RP No. 20-98 (2020) & CESifo Working Paper No. 6901 (2018).
Basten, Christoph (2020), Higher Bank Capital Requirements and Mortgage Pricing: Evidence from the Counter-Cyclical Capital Buffer. Review of Finance, 24(2).

Parts of this work are based on BIS Working Paper No. 511. I thank my co-author on that for significant contributions at the time. Media coverage included Handelszeitung, Finanz und Wirtschaft, Le Temps, La Regione Ticino, and Dow Jones News

Basten, Christoph and Michael Siegenthaler (2019), Do Immigrants Take or Create Residents' Jobs? Evidence from Free Movement of Workers in Switzerland. The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 121(3).
Basten, Christoph, Maximilian von Ehrlich, and Andrea Lassmann (2017), Income Taxes, Sorting and the Costs of Housing: Evidence from Municipal Boundaries in Switzerland. The Economic Journal, 127(601). A previous version, CESifo Working Paper No. 4896 (2014), won the IIPF Peggy and Richard Musgrave Prize 2014.
Basten, Christoph, Fagereng Andreas, and Kjetil Telle (2016), Saving and Portfolio Allocation before and after Job Loss, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 48(2-3).

Media coverage: Dagens Naeringsliv (DN).

Basten, Christoph and Catherine Koch (2015), The Causal Effect of House Prices on Mortgage Demand and Mortgage Supply. Journal of Housing Economics, 30.

Media coverage: Wall Street Journal.

Basten, Christoph, Fagereng Andreas, and Kjetil Telle (2014), Cash-on-Hand and the Duration of Job Search: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Norway. The Economic Journal, 124(576).
Basten, Christoph and Frank Betz (2013), Beyond Work Ethic: Religion, Individual and Political Preferences, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 5(3).

B. Working Papers:

Basten, Christoph & Ragnar Juelsrud (2024), Monetary Policy Transmission through Cross-Selling Banks. SFI WP & ECB WP; Reject and Resubmit at the Journal of Financial Economics.
Basten, C., Cucic, D., & G. Schepens (2026), Market-Priced Savings, Bank Deposit Market Power, and Monetary Policy Transmission. SSRN. Presentations at amongst others 2026 NYU-NYFed, 2026 Swiss FI Conference, 2026 WFA, 2026 EFA, 2026 EFI.
Basten, C. & A. Kartasheva (2024), Who monitors climate risk of financial institutions? Evidence from catastrophe risks in insurance. SFI Research Paper 24-38 (2024).

C. Ongoing work:

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