Research area 1: Financial sector and inequality from a global perspective
Financial sector and inequality from a global perspective
Spillover effects of monetary policy on the Global South:
- Effects of monetary policy changes in the Global North on economies in the Global South
- depending on factors such as currency hierarchy, economic structure and financial market development of the respective country
Research focus:
- Global inequality: different resilience of individual countries to global monetary shocks
- Effects of recent developments on North-South impact channels such as increasing financing in domestic currency, rise of reserve currencies alongside the US dollar, new regional financial safety nets, financing via cryptoassets ...
Possible research questions
- To what extent does the economic policy influence of central banks depend on their global position?
- How can countries in the Global South increase their resilience to monetary shocks?
Description of research area 1 here
Potential supervisors:
Prof. Barbara Fritz (FU Berlin),
Prof. Theocharis Grigoriadis (FU Berlin)
Prof. Heike Joebges (HTW Berlin)
Prof. Fabian Lindner (HTW Berlin)