Marlene AMSTAD

Publications

Marlene AMSTAD
Title:

Professor of Practice in Economics and Finance, Co-director of the FinTech and Social Finance Research Center (SFI), Chair of the FINMA (From Jan, 1, 2021)

Education Background:
Ph.D., Econometrics, University of St. Gallen
MA, Economics, University of Bern
Teaching Area

Finance and Economics

Research

Money, Banking and Chinese Financial Markets

PublicationsInfo

Work in progress:
1. "The Handbook of the China's Financial System", with Sun Guofeng and Wei Xiong (forthcoming, Princeton University Press, Nov 2020)
2. "Trade Sentiment in Chinese Media and Financial Markets", with Leonardo Gambacorta, Chao He and Dora Xia (BIS).
3. "The origin of blockchain: building blocks and history" with Thomas Hugh, manuscript.
4. "A new Indicator for the Structure of the Chinese Government Bond Market", with Michael Funke, 2020, submitted to BOFIT working paper series.
5. "Developing an Underlying Inflation Gauge for China", with Ye Huan (PBoC) and Guonan Ma (Bruegel)
 

Selected published papers/books:

1. "Investors' risk attitudes in the pandemic and the stock market: new evidence based on internet searches", Marlene Amstad, Giulio Cornelli, Leonardo Gambacorta, Dora Xia, BIS Bulletin, June 2020.  

2. "Does sovereign risk in local and foreign currency differ?", Marlene Amstad, Frank Packer and Jimmy Shek, Journal of International Money and Finance, Volume 101, March 2020, 102099. 

3. "Central Bank, Digital Currency and Fintech in Asia", Edited by Marlene Amstad, Bihong Huang, Peter J. Morgan, and Sayuri Shirai, ADBI Press, 11, 2019. 
4. "Regulating Fintech: Objectives, Principles, and Practices", Marlene Amstad, in: Central Bank Digital Currency and Fintech in Asia, 11, 2019
5. "Chinese Bond Market and Interbank Market", Marlene Amstad and Zhiguo He, NBER working paper No 25549, 02, 2019. 
6. "Regulating FinTech: ignore, duckype or code in "The economics of fintech and digital currencies", Center for Economic and Policy Research, 2019
7a. "The New York Fed Staff Underlying Inflation Gauge (UIG)", Marlene Amstad, Simon Potter and Robert Rich (2017), Economic Policy Review, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, issue 23-2, pages 1-32.
7b. Monthly updates of UIG provided by Fed NY: 
7c. Introduction to UIG:  “Measuring Trend Inflation with the Underlying Inflation Gauge,” Amstad, Potter, and Rich, Liberty Street Economics, May 22, 2017
8. "Long-run effects of exchange rate appreciation: Another puzzle?", Marlene Amstad & Beatrice Weder di Mauro, (2017), Aussenwirtschaft, University of St. Gallen, School of Economics and Political Science, Swiss Institute for International Economics and Applied Economics Research, vol. 68(01), pages63-82, December.
9. "Sovereign ratings after the crisis: methodologies revised", with Frank Packer, Global Public Investor, 2017
10. "How do global investors differentiate between sovereign risks? The new normal versus the old", with Remolona, Eli & Shek, Jimmy Journal of International Money and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 66(C), September, 2016.
11. "A spare tire for capital markets: Fostering corporate bond markets in Asia", with Steven Kong, Frank Packer and Eli Remolona, BIS Papers No 85, June 2016.
12. "Sovereign ratings of advanced and emerging economies after the crisis", with Frank Packer, BIS Quarterly Review, Bank for International Settlements, December, 2015.
13. "Monetary policy implementation: common goals but different practices", with Antoine Martin Current Issues in Economics and Finance, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, vol. 17(Nov), 2011.
14. "Monthly pass-through ratios", with Fischer, Andreas M., Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Elsevier, vol. 34(7), pages 1202-1213, July 2010.
15. "Are Weekly Inflation Forecasts Informative?", Andreas M. Fischer Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Department of Economics, University of Oxford, vol. 71(2), pages 237-252, 04, 2009.
16. "Do macroeconomic announcements move inflation forecasts?", Andreas M. Fischer Review, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, issue Sep, pages 507-518, 2009.


Blog posts:
1. "China’s corporate defaults at record high – at last!" with Zhiguo He, VoxEU, 17 July 2019
2. "Underestimated Role of Banks in China’s Bond Market" with Zhiguo He, VoxChina, 16 July 2019
3. "Regulating Fintech: Ignore, duck type or code", VoxEU, 22 March 2019
4. "The tyranny of benchmarks", VoxEU, with Eli Remolona and Jimmy Shek, 28 October 2017.