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Luc Laeven

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 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9820-755X
20012025

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Luc Laeven is the Director-General of the Directorate General Research of the European Central Bank and Professor of Finance at Tilburg University. Prior to this he worked at the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. His research focuses on banking and international finance issues, and has been widely published in academic journals, including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Review of Financial Studies. He has also published books on Systemic Risk, Crises and Macroprudential Regulation (MIT Press), Systemic Financial Crises: Containment and Resolution (Cambridge University Press), and Deposit Insurance Around the World: Issues of Design and Implementation (MIT Press). He is a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Chair of the ESCB Heads of Research Committee, Chair of the Steering Committee of the Euro Area Business Cycle Network, Editor of the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, and Member of the Board of Directors of TalentNomics. He studied at Tilburg University, the University of Amsterdam, and the London School of Economics.

External positions

Director-General of the Directorate General Research of the ECB (European Central Bank)

1 Apr 2015 → …

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  1. SDG 1 - No Poverty
    SDG 1 No Poverty
  2. SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
    SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
  3. SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
    SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
  4. SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
    SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
  5. SDG 13 - Climate Action
    SDG 13 Climate Action
  6. SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
    SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
  7. SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals
    SDG 17 Partnerships for the Goals

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  • Permanent capital losses after banking crises

    Laeven, L., Baron, M., Penasse, J. & Usenko, Y., 2025, (Submitted) In: Quarterly Journal of Economics.

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  • Carbon taxes and the geography of fossil lending

    Laeven, L. & Popov, A., Sept 2023, In: Journal of International Economics. 144, 103797.

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  • Credit shocks, employment protection, and growth:firm-level evidence from spain

    Laeven, L., McAdam, P. & Popov, A., Jul 2023, In: Journal of Banking & Finance. 152, 106850.

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  • Collateral booms and information depletion

    Asriyan, V., Laeven, L. & Martín, A., Mar 2022, In: Review of Economic Studies. 89, 2, p. 517-555 39 p.

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  • Loan types and the bank lending channel

    Ivashina, V., Laeven, L. & Moral-Benito, E., Mar 2022, In: Journal of Monetary Economics. 126, p. 171-187 17 p.

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