Lev Ratnovski is an economist at the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund. He focuses on international banking and finance issues. Previously, he worked on the United States and Canada desks of the IMF (2008-10) and in the Financial Stability area of the Bank of England (2006-08). Mr. Ratnovski holds a B.Sc. from HSE-Moscow and a Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam.

Email: lratnovski@imf.org

Personal WebPage: http://www.ratnovski.com

Fluent In: Dutch, French, Russian.

Lev Ratnovski is an economist at the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund. He focuses on international banking and finance issues. Previously, he worked on the United States and Canada desks of the IMF (2008-10) and in the Financial Stability area of the Bank of England (2006-08). Mr. Ratnovski holds a B.Sc. from HSE-Moscow and a Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam.

Email: lratnovski@imf.org

Personal WebPage: http://www.ratnovski.com

Fluent In: Dutch, French, Russian.

IMF Books and Working Papers:

Why Are Canadian Banks More Resilient?, Working Paper No. 09/152, July 01, 2009

The Dark Side of Bank Wholesale Funding, Working Paper No. 10/170, July 01, 2010

Public Financial Institutions in Developed Countries - Organization and Oversight, Working Paper No. 07/227, September 01, 2007

Publications in Refereed Journals

Bank Liquidity Regulation and the Lender of Last Resort, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Volume 18, Issue 4, October 2009, Pages 541-558

The Dark Side of Bank Wholesale Funding (with Rocco Huang), Journal of Financial Intermediation, forthcoming

IMF Country Reports

United States - Article IV 2009 (monetary policy)

Canada - Article IV 2009 (financial sector and monetary policy)

Other IMF Publications

"In the Eye of the Storm", review of Hank Paulson's "On the Brink", Finance & Development, June 2010

Other Papers, Books, Comments

Liquidity and Transparency in Bank Risk Management, revise and resubmit, Journal of Financial Intermediation