Luc Laeven is Director-General of the Directorate General Research of the European Central Bank. Previously, he was Lead Economist in the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund. Prior to this, he worked at the World Bank and at ABN Amro Bank. His research focuses on international banking and corporate finance issues and has been published in top academic journals, including the American Economic Review, Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Review of Financial Studies. He has also co-edited a book on Systemic Financial Crises: Containment and Resolution published by Cambridge University Press and a Reader on International Corporate Finance.

Mr. Laeven is a Research Affiliate in the Financial Economics Programme of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London, and a Research Associate at the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI). He has studied at Tilburg University, the University of Amsterdam, and the London School of Economics.

Latest Posts:

• A New Look at the Benefits and Costs of Bank Capital
• Challenges Ahead: Managing Spillovers
• Understanding Spillovers
• Are Banks Too Large? Maybe, Maybe Not