Biography

Thorsten Beck is Director of the Florence School of Banking and Finance and Professor of Financial Stability at the European University Institute. He is a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and the CESifo. He was professor of banking and finance at Bayes Business School (formerly Cass) in London between 2013 and 2021 and professor of economics from 2008 to 2014 and the founding chair of the European Banking Center from 2008 to 2013 at Tilburg University.

Recent research output

• BARATA, Maria Ana Alexandre Oliveira Costa; BECK, Thorsten Harald Leopold; DIVISSENKO, Nikita; SANDOVAL VELASCO, María Del Carmen; SCHLOSSER, Pierre, Thirty years after Maastricht: financial integration in the European Union - Working Paper
• ANDOR, Laszlo; BECK, Thorsten Harald Leopold; GOULARD, Sylvie; MCNAMARA, Kathleen R.; SCHELKLE, Waltraud, Crisis management and the sharing of catastrophic risks - Video
• BECK, Thorsten Harald Leopold; KESSLER, Natalie, The SME finance gap in the European Union - Working Paper
• PETIT, Christy Ann; BECK, Thorsten Harald Leopold, Recent trends in UK financial sector regulation and possible implications for the EU, including its approach to equivalence - Technical Report
• SANDOVAL VELASCO, María Del Carmen; BECK, Thorsten Harald Leopold; SCHLOSSER, Pierre, The impact of the Ukraine crisis in the EU economic and financial union - Other
• TUBIANA, Laurence; GLACHANT, Jean-Michel; BECK, Thorsten Harald Leopold; BELMANS, Ronnie; COLOMBIER, Michel; HANCHER, Leigh; PIEBALGS, Andris; ROSSETTO, Nicolò; RÜDINGER, Andreas; RUNGE-METZGER, Artur, Between crises and decarbonisation : realigning EU climate and energy policy for the new ‘state of the world' - Other
• BECK, Thorsten Harald Leopold; DE JONGHE, Olivier; MULIER, Klaas, Bank sectoral concentration and risk : evidence from a worldwide sample of banks - Article
• ALLEN, Franklin; BECK, Thorsten; CARLETTI, Elena, Does finance accelerate or retard growth? : theory and evidence - Working Paper
• ALLEN, Franklin; BECK, Thorsten; CARLETTI, Elena; LANE, Philip R.; SCHOENMAKER, Dirk; WAGNER, Wolf, Cross-Border Banking in Europe: Implications for Financial Stability and Macroeconomic Policies - Book