Thorsten Beck
Tilburg University
Thorsten Beck is Professor of Economics and Chairman of the European Banking CentER at Tilburg University. Before joining Tilburg University in 2008, he worked at the Development Research Group of the World Bank. His research and policy work has focused on international banking and corporate finance and has been published in Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Monetary Economcis and Journal of Economic Growth. His operational and policy work has focused on Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. He is also Research Fellow in the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London and a Fellow in the Center for Financial Studies in Frankfurt. He studied at Tübingen University, Universidad de Costa Rica, University of Kansas and University of Virginia.
Articles by Thorsten Beck:
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Doing Business – less icing, more cake!
6 June 2013, 6607 reads
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Is more finance better? Disentangling intermediation and size effects of financial systems
8 April 2013, 8535 reads
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Cyprus: What are the alternatives?
22 March 2013, 13266 reads
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Why the rush? Short-term crisis resolution and long-term bank stability
16 October 2012, 4603 reads
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Banking union for Europe - risks and challenges
16 October 2012, 11878 reads
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Financial innovation: The good and the bad
2 October 2012, 15142 reads
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Sex and credit: Is there a gender bias in lending?
16 September 2012, 7559 reads
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Foreigners vs. natives: Bank lending and loan pricing
13 July 2012, 6675 reads
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Banking union instead of Eurobonds – disentangling sovereign and banking crises
24 June 2012, 10727 reads
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Cross-border banking and national supervision – could it work?
7 January 2012, 8349 reads
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How to solve the crisis – and what to do about banks
28 October 2011, 5044 reads
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Taxing banks – here we go again!
25 October 2011, 4724 reads
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The Future of Banking - a new VoxEU.org eBook
25 October 2011, 3465 reads
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The Future of Banking – solving the current crisis while addressing long-term challenges
25 October 2011, 6902 reads
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Eurobonds without public guarantees: Insulating the financial sector from the European debt crisis
17 September 2011, 13081 reads
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Financing Africa: New hopes and continuous challenges
16 September 2011, 4907 reads
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Bank competition and stability: Cross-country heterogeneity
25 July 2011, 11505 reads
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Cross-border banking in Europe
20 June 2011, 9826 reads
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Can financial reform reduce tax evasion?
13 October 2010, 7674 reads
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Finance for all? Banking structure reform may not be the way
6 October 2010, 7134 reads
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The US financial reform bill: Hit or flop?
16 June 2010, 10008 reads
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Financial sector taxation: Balancing fairness, efficiency, and stability
31 May 2010, 9839 reads
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Finance, growth and development
14 May 2010, 5751 reads
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Foreign banks and small and medium enterprises: Are they really estranged?
1 April 2010, 11404 reads
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Bailing out the banks: Reconciling stability and competition
18 February 2010, 12987 reads
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What explains the cost of remittances?
28 September 2009, 11022 reads
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Are women better loan officers?
28 August 2009, 13135 reads
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Finance in Africa – Achievements and challenges
20 July 2009, 12274 reads
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Disaggregating financial development: The effects of lending to households and firms
9 July 2009, 13298 reads
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Bank ownership and stability: Evidence from Germany
9 May 2009, 11766 reads
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