China’s role in the global financial crisis

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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

Shocks and risk sharing in the EMU: Lessons for Banking and Capital Market Union

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A short policy piece by Mathias Hoffmann and his co-authors Bent Sorensen, Egor Maslov and Iryna Stewen on how to ensure that risk sharing in EMU  becomes resilient to systemic banking shocks has just appeared in a new CEPR e-book edited by my colleagues Jan-Egbert Sturm and Nauro Campos entitled Bretton Woods, Brussels, and Beyond: … Read more

The Euro at 20

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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

Interview with Handelszeitung

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On May 9th Mathias Hoffmann talked to Swiss Economic Newspaper “Handelszeitung” about the economic implications of the election of Emmanuel Macron to the French presidency. Read the full interview here

Affiliation with Norges Bank

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Mathias Hoffmann has been appointed a visiting scholar at Norges Bank, the Norwegian Central bank, for the year 2017. During his visits he will work on a project with André Anundsen and Erling Roed-Larsen  about the role of household leverage for housing demand.

New paper in RoWE

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My paper “A provincial view of Global Imbalances: Regional Capital Flows in China” with Samuel Cudré (Mc Kinsey & Co) is now forthcoming in the Review of World Economics

ADB/ECB conference in Singapore

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  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