Thorsten Beck
Professor of Banking and Finance, Cass Business School; Research Fellow, CEPR
Thorsten Beck is Professor of Banking and Finance at Cass Business School in London. He is also (Co)-Managing Editor of Economic Policy and Co-editor of the Review of Finance. He was Professor of Economics and founding Chair of the European Banking Center at Tilburg University from 2008 to 2013. Previously he worked in the research department of the World Bank and has also worked as a Consultant for – among others - the ECB, EIB, IMF, the European Commission, ADB, and the German Development Corporation.
His research and policy work has focused on international banking and corporate finance and has been published in Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Monetary Economics and Journal of Economic Growth. His research and policy work has focused on Eastern, Central and Western Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. He is also Research Fellow in the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London and a Fellow in CESifo. He studied at Tübingen University, Universidad de Costa Rica, University of Kansas and University of Virginia.
Articles by thorstenbeck
An asset management company for the Eurozone
New eBook | Quo Vadis? Identity, policy and the future of the European Union
Impact of natural resource windfalls on the financial sector
Future challenges of financial regulation
Nascent stock exchanges: Explaining success and failure
Safeguarding the euro – balancing market discipline with certainty
The Global Crisis special issue of Economic Policy
Finance and growth – beware the measurement
Mobile money, trade credit, and economic development
Five years of crisis (resolution) – some lessons