Sascha Steffen
Professor of Finance, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management

Research Interests:
Financial Intermediation, Banking, Corporate Debt Markets, Regulation of Financial Intermediaries
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I am an empirical researcher in the area of banking and financial intermediation. In my recent work, I analyze the implications of central bank and regulatory interventions for firms’ financing and investment opportunities. Spillovers from interventions to the real economy are usually mediated through the banking sector and the question is when they benefit or hurt the economy.  [...]
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News

"Stress Test" for Banks as Liquidity Providers in a time of COVID (with Viral Acharya), published on voxeu.org
Download PDF    Coverage Financial Times

A Protective Shield for Europe’s Banks (with M. Schularick) *** NEW ***

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Upcoming talks & conferences

  • ​IMF, Washington (USA), Sept 26
  • European Central Bank, Frankfurt (Germany), Nov 11
  • University of Miami Business School, Dec 6
  • ASSA Meetings, San Diego (USA), 3-5 Jan 2020
  • NYU Stern, New York (USA), 21 Feb 2020
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New working papers

Capital Misallocation and Innovation (NEW)
Co-authored with C. Schmidt, Y. Schneider and D. Streitz
[Paper on SSRN]

What's in the Spread? The Predictive Power of Loan versus Bond Spreads (Coming Soon)
Co-authored with A. Saunders, A. Spina and D. Streitz