Biography

Thorsten Beck is Director of the Florence School of Banking and Finance and Professor of Financial Stability at the European University Institute. He is a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and the CESifo. He was professor of banking and finance at Bayes Business School (formerly Cass) in London between 2013 and 2021 and professor of economics from 2008 to 2014 and the founding chair of the European Banking Center from 2008 to 2013 at Tilburg University.

Research projects, clusters and working groups

Ongoing

• Finance and society
• Bank resolution frameworks in systemic crises

Completed

• Stocktake of recent trends in UK financial services regulation, the impact of Brexit on tax evasion and money laundering in the UK & crown dependencies, and possible implications for the EU, including its approach to equivalence.

Fields of expertise

Recent research output

• BECK, Thorsten Harald Leopold; LEVINE, Ross (2025), Legal institutions and the development of financial systems revisited , Contribution to book
• BECK, Thorsten Harald Leopold (2024), Supervisory cooperation and regulatory arbitrage , Article
• BECK, Thorsten Harald Leopold (2024), Cross-border supervisory cooperation : a progress report and research agenda , Working Paper
• MAJCHER, Klaudia (2024), Charting the digital and technological future of Europe : what priorities for the European Commission in 2024-2029? , Technical Report
• BECK, Thorsten Harald Leopold (2024), Cross-border supervisory cooperation : a progress report and research agenda , Article
• BARATA, Maria Ana; BECK, Thorsten Harald Leopold; NOVEMBRE, Valerio (2024), EU financial sector priorities for 2030 , Working Paper