European Forum at Beijing University, Oct 17th 2020

I had the honor to represent the University of Zurich at the 2020s European Forum of the School of Economics at Beijing University. My slides on Learning from the China Trade Shock: Lessons for European Monetary Union in a Post-COVID World can be downloaded here and are based on my recent UZH Econ -DP with … Read more

China’s role in the global financial crisis

On Nov 29th, I gave a public lecture on China’s role in the origins and the handling of the financial crisis as part of a lecture series commemorating the 10th anniversary of the global financial crisis. Building on my research with Iryna Stewen and Yi Huang, I argue that global imbalances were an important factor … Read more

The Euro at 20

Mathias Hoffmann will present his new paper “Are capital market and banking union complements? Evidence from Risk Sharing Channels in the EMU”   co-authored with Egor Maslov, Bent E. Sorensen and Iryna Stewen at the Conference “The Euro at 20” on June 25-26 2018 co-organized by the IMF, the Central Bank of Ireland and the … Read more

ADB/ECB conference in Singapore

  I will present my paper with Toshihiro Okubo “By a Silken Thread: regional banking integration and credit reallocation during Japan’s lost decade”at the conference on Financial Regulation: Intermediation, Stability and Productivity at National University  of Singapore. The conference is co-organized by the Asian Development Bank, the European Central Bank, Singapore Monetary Athority and the … Read more