Welcome

Research interests

  Finance and development

  Empirical banking

  Climate finance

  Gender and the economy

Welcome! I am the Director of Research at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and an Associate Professor of Finance at Tilburg University. I am also a CEPR Research Fellow; Fellow at the European Banking Center; Visiting Senior Fellow at the Institute of Global Affairs at the London School of Economics; Research Associate at the ZEW–Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research; and Practitioner Director at the Financial Management Association (FMA). I completed my Ph.D. in Economics at Utrecht University and received the 2014 Willem F. Duisenberg Fellowship Prize. My research has been published in the Journal of Financial Economics; Review of Financial Studies; Review of Finance; Journal of International Economics, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics; the Journal of the European Economic Association and various other peer-reviewed outlets.

My research lies at the intersection of empirical banking and development economics. I am particularly interested in firms’ and households’ access to financial services; the stability aspects of global banking; finance and green growth; and the role of gender in the economy. I am currently working on randomized controlled trials related to financial inclusion in Morocco and Turkey.

Disclaimer: All the material and opinions expressed on this website are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the EBRD.