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.

Research projects, clusters and working groups

Ongoing

• Finance and society

Completed

• Stocktake of recent trends in UK financial services regulation, the impact of Brexit on tax evasion and money laundering in the UK & crown dependencies, and possible implications for the EU, including its approach to equivalence.

Supervisees

• Alina Kempf
• Harry Begg

Fields of expertise

Recent research output

• BARATA, Maria Ana; BECK, Thorsten Harald Leopold; NOVEMBRE, Valerio (2024), EU financial sector priorities for 2030, Working Paper
• BECK, Thorsten Harald Leopold (2024), Cross-border supervisory cooperation : a progress report and research agenda, Working Paper
• BECK, Thorsten Harald Leopold; MOONEY, Henry (2021), Financial development in the Caribbean, Contribution to book
• BARAJAS, Adolfo; BECK, Thorsten Harald Leopold; BELHAJ, Mohamed; BEN NACEUR, Sami (2022), Financial inclusion, Contribution to book
• BECK, Thorsten Harald Leopold; LLOYD, Simon; REINHARDT, Dennis; SOWERBUTTS, Rhiannon (2023), Macro-financial policy in an international financial centre : the UK experience since the global financial crisis, Contribution to book
• BECK, Thorsten Harald Leopold; KEIL, Jan (2022), Have banks caught corona? : effects of COVID on lending in the U.S., Article