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M.A. Tássia Kastner

Freie Universität Berlin

Promotionskolleg EQUALFIN

PhD Candidate

Doktorandin

Address
Boltzmanstr. 20
Room 402
14195 Berlin

Education

Since 02/2025

PhD Candidate, EQUALFIN

04/2022 - 03/2024

Master's degree in “International and Development Economics“ at Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin

 

Thesis: The implications of issuing an exclusive wholesale CBDC: the Brazilian case

03/2016 - 04/2017

MBA in Economics and Financial Markets at Faculdade UBS, Brazil

08/2005 - 08/2010

Bachelor's degree in “Communication Science - Journalism” at UFRGS, Brazil

Working experience

2020-2024

Editor-in-chief at Revista Você S/A. Main topics: financial markets, macroeconomics, and personal finance

 

2015-2020

Reporter and Editor at Folha de S.Paulo. Main topics: financial markets, banking sector and Central Bank

 

2012-2015

Reporter at Agência Estado. Main topics: agribusiness and future markets

Research Project

Project Title: "The role of a fast payment system in promoting financial inclusion in Brazil"

Fast payment systems have registered a big development around the globe and are pointed out as a tool to promote financial inclusion. In this regard, the Brazilian fast payment system, named Pix, is taken as a proxy of success in terms of acceptance and increasing financial inclusion.

The Brazilian Central Bank developed Pix in a set of changes in the financial and regulatory landscape to increase competitiveness in the financial system. This research aims to explain if and to what extent Pix contributed to financial inclusion in Brazil, and to assess how deep the financial inclusion fomented by the payment system is.