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    Research Interests

                International Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Financial Economics, Public Economics.

    Working Papers

"Information Asymmetry and Foreign Currency Borrowing by Small Firms," joint with Martin Brown and Steven Ongena, Tilburg University CentER Discussion Paper, No. 2011-099 (submitted).

"Financing Government Expenditures Optimally," Study Center Gerzensee Working Paper, No. 06.01, 2006.

"Tax Collection Costs, Tax Evasion and Optimal Interest Rates," Study Center Gerzensee Working Paper, No. 04.02, 2004 (revise and resubmit to the Journal of Monetary Economics).

    Research in Progress

"Systemic Risk in Europe due to Foreign Currency Loans"

"Current Account of Switzerland", joint with Andreas Fischer and Jessica Leutert

"Predictive Power of the State-of-the-art Exchange Rate Models"

"Tax Evasion as a Coordination Failure"

    Publications

 "Foreign Currency Borrowing by Small Firms in Transition Countries," Journal of Financial Intermediation, July 2011, joint with M. Brown and S. Ongena.

 "Who Needs Credit and Who Gets Credit in Eastern Europe," Economic Policy, January 2011, Issue 65, joint with M. Brown, S. Ongena, and A. Popov.

 "The Recent Behavior of Financial Market Volatility", BIS Paper, No. 29, August 2006, Bank for International Settlements, joint with F. Panetta, P. Angelini, A. Levy, G. Grande, R. Perli, S. Gerlach, S. Ramaswamy, M. Scatigna.

    What the Financial Times has said on this study on Sept 22, 2006, on Sept 29, 2006, on Oct 2, 2006, and on Jan 24, 2007.

    What the Economist has said on this study on Oct 5, 2006.