Media

I am a frequent expert source for print, digital, radio and television outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The New York Times, CNBC, N-TV, and Deutsche Welle. In these interviews, I provide on-the-record expert commentary related to banks, capital markets and the European economy. Recently, I’ve discussed the possible transitory nature of inflation in Europe, the implications of COVID and how policy should respond, and at the beginning of the COVID pandemic, I urged regulators to keep the capital rules in place. 

Here are some examples of my recent interviews

• Zur Pleite der Silicon Valley Bank (Tagesschau, live 9 minutes (in German), 13.03.2023)

• DW Business America - Market rebound after panic (Deutsche Welle, 14.03.2023)

• Banken allein schaffen es nicht (FAZ, 23.09.2021)

• Banks plead for rethink over post-crisis rules (Financial Times, 19.03.2020)

• Alle Banken rekapitalisieren (Börsenzeitung, 27.03.2020)

• A lot of reasons Deutsche-Commerzbank merger may not work (CNBC, 19.03.2019)

• Do Two Troubled Banks Make One Good One? Germany May Find Out (The New York Times, 25.02.2019)

• Personalities key in shaping banks’ risk taking, study says (Financial Times, 19.06.2016)

I also provide background information to journalists, and my research is often cited by media outlets, including:

• Steffen soll Forschungs­orientierung voranbringen (Börsenzeitung, 15.07.2021)

• Mit KI wollen Frankfurter Forscher die Geldpolitik effizienter machen (Handelsblatt, 07.05.2021)

• European banks face €1 trillion gap before review (Bloomberg, 18.01.2014)

• Alternative stress tests cannot compare with those of the ECB (Financial Times, From Philippe Heim, Chief Financial Officer, Société Générale, 30.10.2014)

  • How could ECB have produced results so different from ours? (Letter to the editor of the Financial Times, 9.11.2014)