Policy publications

• Central bank digital currencies and data in the digital age: A triple imperative (2021), with R. Auer, J. Frost, L. Gambacorta and H.S. Shin, in CEPR e-book "Central Bank Digital Currency: Considerations, Projects, Outlook".

• Technological capacity and firms' recovery from Covid-19 (2021), with M. Erdem, G. Franco, L. Gambacorta and A. Illes, Economics Letters 209(110102), (PDF, SSRN)

• Funding for fintechs: patterns and drivers (2021), with G. Cornelli, L. Franco, and J. Frost, BIS Quarterly Review, September

• Whom do consumers trust with their data? US survey evidence (2021), with O. Amantier, J. Frost, A. Fuster and K. Shue, BIS Bulletin No 42

• Big data and machine learning in central banking (2021), with L. Gambacorta and J.-M. Serena, BIS Working Paper No 930

  • • • How do central banks use big data and machine learning? (2021), SUERF Policy Brief No 67

      • Use of big data sources and applications at central banks (2021), IFC Report no 13

• Could housing booms undermine productivity growth? (2020), SUERF Policy Brief No 40

• The recession-mortality nexus and Covid-19 (2020), with B. Hofmann, BIS Bulletin No 35

  • • • See also: Recessions and mortality: a global perspective (2020), with B. Hofmann, BIS Working Paper No 910

• On health and privacy: technology to combat the pandemic (2020), with C. Cantu, G. Cheng, J. Frost and L. Gambacorta, BIS Bulletin No 17

• Covid-19 and regional employment in Europe (2020), with L. Gambacorta, BIS Bulletin No 16 (Data for maps in Graph 2)

• Identifying regions at risk with Google Trends: the impact of Covid-19 on US labour markets (2020), with L. Gambacorta, BIS Bulletin No 8

Blogs, columns, etc

• Mind the gap - is fintech closing the gender gap in access to financial services? (2021), with S. Chen, J. Forst, L. Gambacorta and H.S. Shin, World Bank Blog All About Finance

• Digging for gold: how regulatory sandboxes help fintechs raise funding (2021), with G. Cornelli, L. Gambacorta and O. Merrouche, VoxEU.org

• How international trade disciplines the internal capital market and reduces the conglomerate discount (2020), with D. Marin, D. Suverato and T. Verdier, VoxEU.org

• How failing banks paved Hitler's path to power: Financial crisis and right-wing extremism in Germany, 1931-33 (2019), with J.-L. Peydro and H.-J. Voth, VoxEU.org

• Die deutsche Bankenkrise und Hitlers Weg an die Macht: Lehren aus der Geschichte (2019), with J.-L. Peydro and H.-J. Voth, Ökonomenstimme.org

Selected media & industry coverage

• The Economist: What is the link between economic crises and political ruptures?

• Wall Street Journal: How property booms eat our economic future

• Financial Times: The time to embrace digital currency is now

• Bloomberg: The Fintech Express Is Leaving Women Behind

• The Guardian: A banking crisis isn’t just bad for business, it can also poison politics

• The Syndney Morning Herald: COVID-19: A health and economic disaster but also a natural experiment

• Neue Zürcher Zeitung: Ist die Therapie fataler als das Virus? Auch die Abkühlung der Wirtschaft kostet Menschenleben – vor allem in langer Frist

• Wirtschaftswoche: Das Mysterium der Preise

• Bloomberg: What's happening in the world economy - need-to-know research

• IMF Finance and Development: Let's build a better data economy

• Central Banking: Fintech use shows international gender gap

• Central Banking: Financial crises can radicalise voters

• Financial Services Forum: Unintended Side Effects: Stress Tests, Small Businesses and Economic Dynamism

• Moody's Analytics: BIS on Impact of Stress Tests on Entrepreneurship and Innovation in US

• AUDA-NEPAD: Gendering Agriculture: Empowering African Women Farmers Using Modern Technologies

• Interia biznes: How and to whom is income inequality harmful?

• Continental Telegraph: The Financial Crisis That Swept Hitler To Power

• QRIUS: How do politics and finance shape each other?

• Les Echos: Le retour des années 1930

• Le Nouvel Economiste: Crise économique-sociale-politique, l’enchaînement néfaste

• Institutional Money: Unerwünschte Nebenwirkungen

• Plansecur: Senkt Lockere Geldpolitik die Produktivität?

• Gabriel Makhlhouf: COVID-19: What can we learn from history?