Publications in peer-reviewed journals
Dating the Lender of Last Resort
- With M. Anson, D. Bholat and T. Ryland, all Bank of England
- Download paper (incl. appendix): here (conditionally accepted for publication in The Economic Journal in September 2022)
- Media: VoxEU CEPR Policy Portal: What we may learn from historical financial crises to understand and mitigate COVID-19 panic buying, 20 April 2020.
- An earlier and substantially different version of this paper was published as a Bank of England Staff Working Paper (Staff Working Paper No. 794, 4/2019).
- Previous version circulated with the title: “What You Owe or Who You Know? The Recipients of Central Bank Liquidity during the English Crisis of 1847″
The (Not So) Quiet Period: Communication by ECB Decision-makers during Monetary Policy Blackout Days
- Accepted for publication in the Journal of International Money and Finance (September 2022)
- Download paper: here (with P. Gnan, WU Vienna)
- Previous version circulated with the title: “Who Talks During Monetary Policy Quiet Periods, and Why? Evidence from the European Central Bank’s Governing Council”
- Available as CEPR Discussion Paper 15735/2021
Monetary Policy Decision-Making by Committee: Why, When and How it Can Work
- European Journal of Political Economy Vol. 72 (March 2022), pp. 1-30
- Download paper: here
Working papers
Supervision without Regulation: Discount Limits at the Austro-Hungarian Bank, 1909-1913
- With C. Jobst, University of Vienna
- Download paper: here (R & R at The Economic History Review)
- Download online appendix: here
- Available as CEPR Discussion Paper 16841/2021
- Awards: EHA Alexander Gerschenkron Prize 2018 (finalist), Michael Mitterauer Prize 2018
- Summary: The Journal of Economic History 79, no. 2 (2019): 507-542.
Financial Stability Policies and Bank Lending: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Federal Reserve Interventions in 1920-21
- Download paper: here (under revision)
- Download online appendix: here
- Available as CEPR Discussion Paper 16490/2021 and ESRB Working Paper 113/2020
- Awards: French Finance Association Gallais-Hamonno Research Prize in Historical Finance 2021 (special commendation), Theodor Körner Prize 2019, ESRB Ieke van den Burg Prize 2019 (shortlisted)
- Media: Der Standard – Ökonomieblog (economics blog): “Warum Wirtschaftsgeschichte Sexy Ist” (in German; “Why economic history is sexy”), 21 May 2019.
- Previous version circulated with the title: “Should Monetary Policy Lean Against the Wind? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Federal Reserve Policies in 1920-21”
A Historic(al) Run on Repo: Causes of Bank Distress during the Austro-Hungarian Gründerkrach of 1873
- Download dissertation: here
- Awards: EHS New Researcher Prize 2017, EHA Alexander Gerschenkron Prize 2018 (finalist), Michael Mitterauer Prize 2018
- Summary: The Journal of Economic History 79, no. 2 (2019): 507-542.
Haunting the Specter of Credit Rationing: Unconventional Last Resort Lending during the Austro-Hungarian Gründerkrach of 1873
- Download dissertation: here
- Awards: EHA Alexander Gerschenkron Prize 2018 (finalist), Michael Mitterauer Prize 2018
- Summary: The Journal of Economic History 79, no. 2 (2019): 507-542.
Policy papers
Clear, Consistent and Engaging: ECB Monetary Policy Communication in a Changing World
- ECB Occasional Paper 274/2021
- With colleagues from the ECB Strategy Review Workstream on Monetary Policy Communication
- Download paper: here
The Effects of the Monetary Policy Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: Preliminary Evidence from a Pilot Study using Austrian bank-level Data
- Monetary Policy and the Economy Q4 (2020) – Q1 (2021), pp. 131-152
- With C. Kwapil, OeNB
- Download paper: here
Principles, circumstances and constraints: the Nationalbank as lender of last resort from 1816 to 1931
- Monetary Policy and the Economy Q3-4 (2016), pp.140-162
- With C. Jobst, University of Vienna
- Download paper: here
Ongoing Research Projects
Central Bank Communication by ???
- With M. Ehrmann, ECB and P. Gnan, WU Vienna
The Impact of Tariff Protection: Evidence from British Colonies in Australia
- With L. Sauerhammer, WU Vienna
- Download slides: here
Designing Effective Gender Quotas: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Austrian Firm-level Data
- With A. Bachleitner, Austrian Fiscal Advisory Council
Financial Network Topology and Historical Market Crashes: Evidence from the Austro-Hungarian Gründerkrach of 1873
- Financial support by the science and research funding arm of the City of Vienna (2020-2021)
The Vienna Real Estate Market, 1868-1990: The First Long-run real estate price index for Austria
- With M. Lampe, WU Vienna, C. Jobst, University of Vienna, and K. Wagner, Oesterreichische Nationalbank, running 2018-2021
- Financial support by the OeNB Anniversary Fund
- Project homepage: link
Was there a Farm Channel to the Great Depression in the United States? New Evidence from County-Level Data on Farm Foreclosures (hibernated)
- With T. E. Messer, UC Berkeley
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