I am a Senior Economist at the Bank for International Settlements.
I obtained my Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University.
My research focuses on macro-finance, international finance, financial intermediation and short-term funding markets.
CURRENT WORKING PAPERS
- NEW PAPER! How Do Quantitative Easing and Tightening Affect Firms? (with Denis Gorea (BIS) and Daojing Zhai (Yale))
- Money Market Funds and the Pricing of Near-Money Assets (with Sebastian Doerr (BIS))
AWARDS: Arthur Warga Award for Best Paper in Fixed Income at SFS Cavalcade Asia-Pacific 2024
CONFERENCES: WFA 2024, SFS Cavalcade Asia-Pacific 2024, Spring Finance Workshop 2024, MFA 2024, EFA 2023, BSE Summer Forum 2023, 6th Fed/Maryland Short-Term Funding Markets Workshop, CEBRA 2023, SAET 2023, Endless Summer Conference 2023
- Signaling with Debt Currency Choice (with Semyon Malamud (EPFL) and Haonan Zhou (Hong Kong University)) BIS WP version, Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Financial Economics
AWARDS: CICF 2023 Best Paper Award
CONFERENCES: EFA 2024, Adam Smith Workshop 2024, SFS Cavalcade 2023, CICF 2023, HEC Montreal – McGill WFC, Aarhus Corporate Finance Workshop, CEBRA 2022, BIS-BOE-ECB-IMF Spillover Conference, Vienna Symposium on FX Markets
- Optimal Central Bank Balance Sheets (with Tim Jackson (U Liverpool) and Giovanni Lombardo (BIS))
CONFERENCES: ECB Money Markets Conference 2024
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
- The Demand for Government Debt (with Andreas Schrimpf (BIS) and Dora Xia (BIS)), Management Science, forthcoming. Internet Appendix and Replication Package (Please cite the paper in case you use any data from this folder.)
CONFERENCES: FRB-FRBNY International Roles of the Dollar 2025, Chicago Booth Treasury Markets Conference 2025, BoC-Chicago Fed-SF Fed Fixed Income Research and Implications for Monetary Policy 2025, EFA 2024, SFS Cavalcade Asia-Pacific 2024, U of York Asset Pricing Workshop 2024
MEDIA: FT Alphaville
- Dominant Currency Debt (with Semyon Malamud (EPFL)), Journal of Financial Economics (2022). Internet Appendix and Replication Package (Please cite the paper in case you use any data from this folder.)
CONFERENCES: AFA, IMF Jacques Polak ARC, NBER IFM, Stanford SITE, CEPR ESSIM, IDC Herzliya, Joint BIS-BoE-ECB-IMF Workshop
- Global Banks, Dollar Funding, and Regulation (with Iñaki Aldasoro (BIS) and Torsten Ehlers (BIS)), Journal of International Economics (2022). Replication Package (Please cite the paper in case you use any data from this folder.).
CONFERENCES: Stanford SITE Financial Regulation Workshop (2017), Swiss Winter Conference 2019, Joint BIS-BoE-ECB-IMF Workshop, 4th Bank of Canada-Bank of Spain Workshop on International Financial Markets, ECB Workshop on Money Markets
MEDIA: FT Alphaville calls it “a dollar funding bible”, Adam Tooze blog
- Spillovers of funding dry-ups (with Iñaki Aldasoro (BIS), Florian Balke (Goethe U) and Andreas Barth (Goethe U)), Journal of International Economics (2022). Replication Package (Please cite the paper in case you use any data from this folder.)
CONFERENCES: FIRS 2019, CEBRA 2019, the 1st CUHK-RCFS Conference on Corporate Finance and Financial Intermediation, the 2019 Meeting of the Royal Economic Society, the 27th Finance Forum, the 6th EFI Workshop, the 2019 Spring Meeting of Young Economists, the 8th Workshop Banks and Financial Markets
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Non-financial corporates’ balance sheets and monetary policy tightening (with Miguel Ampudia (ECB) and Marco Lombardi (BIS)), BIS Quarterly Review, September 2023.
The role of non-bank financial institutions in cross-border spillovers (with Philip Wooldridge (BIS)), BIS Papers, no 129, December 2022.
Pricing of climate risks in financial markets: a summary of the literature (with Floortje Merten (DNB) and Niek Verhoeven (DNB), BIS Papers, no 130, December 2022.
Non-bank financial institutions and the functioning of government bond markets (with Philip Wooldridge (BIS)), BIS Papers, no 119, November 2021.
Dollar funding of non-US banks through Covid-19 (with Inaki Aldasoro (BIS) and Wenqian Huang (BIS)), BIS Quarterly Review, March 2021.
US branches and subsidiaries of non-US banks and the Covid-19 shock (with Inaki Aldasoro (BIS), Torsten Ehlers (BIS) and Wenqian Huang (BIS)), BIS Quarterly Review, March 2021.
Dollar deposits of central counterparties (with Inaki Aldasoro (BIS) and Wenqian Huang (BIS)), BIS Quarterly Review, March 2021.
US dollar funding: an international perspective (Role: Secretary and Working Group member), CGFS Papers, no 65, June 2020.
US dollar funding markets during the Covid-19 crisis – the international dimension (with Andreas Schrimpf (BIS) and Vladyslav Sushko (BIS)), BIS Bulletin, no 15, May 2020.
Selected media coverage: The Economist
US dollar funding markets during the Covid-19 crisis – the money market fund turmoil (with Andreas Schrimpf (BIS) and Vladyslav Sushko (BIS)), BIS Bulletin, no 14, May 2020.
Selected media coverage: Risk.net
Dollar funding costs during the Covid-19 crisis through the lens of the FX swap market (with Stefan Avdjiev (BIS) and Patrick McGuire (BIS)), BIS Bulletin, no 1, April 2020.
“September stress in dollar repo markets: passing or structural?” (with Fernando Avalos (BIS) and Torsten Ehlers (BIS)), BIS Quarterly Review, December 2019, pp. 12-14.
Selected Media Coverage: Financial Times 1, Financial Times 2, The Economist, FT Alphaville, Bloomberg 1, Bloomberg 2, Bloomberg TV, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal 1, Wall Street Journal 2, Barron’s, Reuters, Frances Coppola blog, Zerohedge.
“Investment mandates and fire sales: the case of mutual funds and BBB bonds” (with S. Aramonte), BIS Quarterly Review, March 2019, pp. 12-13.
Selected Media Coverage: Financial Times, Bloomberg, Barron’s, Irish Independent
“Financial markets remain vulnerable to year-end stress” (with S. Aramonte), BIS Quarterly Review, March 2019, pp. 8-9.
“Can CCPs reduce repo market inefficiencies?” (with I. Aldasoro and T. Ehlers), BIS Quarterly Review, December 2017, pp. 13-14.
“Non-US banks’ global dollar funding grows despite US money market reform,” (with I. Aldasoro, T. Ehlers, R. McCauley), BIS Quarterly Review, March 2017, pp. 22 – 23.
Media Coverage: FT Alphaville, RiskNet
“The changing shape of interest rate derivatives markets,” (with T. Ehlers), BIS Quarterly Review, December 2016, pp. 53 – 65.
Media Coverage: Bloomberg
OLDER WORKING PAPERS
“Matching Prime Brokers and Hedge Funds,” SIEPR Discussion Paper No. 16-014.
“From Wood to Coal May Well Be From Malthus to Solow,” (with D. Garcia-Macia).
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