Bernardus F Nazar Van Doornik

Former Visiting Economist

Bernardus Doornik graduated from the Federal University of Minas Gerais in 2003 with a BA in Business Administration. He obtained his MSc degree in Finance in 2008 from the University of Brasilia, completing his doctoral studies in Finance at CentER Graduate School – Tilburg University in 2015. Before joining the BIS, Bernardus was the Deputy Head of the Research Department at the Central Bank of Brazil.

All BIS publications (9)

BIS Working Paper No 1256 8 Apr 2025

The disciplining effect of bank supervision: evidence from SupTech

Regulators increasingly rely on supervisory technologies (SupTech) to enhance bank supervision, but their potential…

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Cédric Huylebroek

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Bernardus F Nazar Van Doornik

BIS Working Paper No 1236 13 Dec 2024

Savings-and-credit contracts

In this paper, we present a savings-and-credit contract (SCC) design that mandates a savings period with a default penalty…

Bernardus F Nazar Van Doornik

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David Schoenherr

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Janis Skrastins

BIS Working Paper No 1177 28 Mar 2024

Pre-publication revisions of bank financial statements: a novel way to monitor banks?

We investigate whether pre-publication revisions of bank financial statements contain forward-looking information about bank…

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Bernardus F Nazar Van Doornik

Towards liquid and resilient government debt markets in EMEs

Publication 4 Mar 2024

Towards liquid and resilient government debt markets in EMEs

The investor base and size of hedging markets matter for liquidity in emerging economies' sovereign debt markets.

Bernardus F Nazar Van Doornik

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Alexandre Tombini

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Christian Upper

Labour markets: what explains the resilience?

Publication 4 Dec 2023

Labour markets: what explains the resilience?

The post-pandemic recovery features significant tightness in labour markets – a situation where jobs are plentiful and…

Bernardus F Nazar Van Doornik

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Enisse Kharroubi

BIS Working Paper No 1134 23 Oct 2023

Bank competition, cost of credit and economic activity: evidence from Brazil

We use heterogeneous exposure to large bank mergers to estimate the effect of bank competition on both financial and real…

Gustavo Joaquim

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Bernardus F Nazar Van Doornik

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José Renato Haas Ornelas

BIS Working Paper No 1071 30 Jan 2023

Financial access and labor market outcomes: evidence from credit lotteries

We assess the employment and income effects of access to credit dedicated to investment in individual mobility by exploiting…

Bernardus F Nazar Van Doornik

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David Schoenherr

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Janis Skrastins

BIS Working Paper No 990 13 Jan 2022

Informational switching costs, bank competition, and the cost of finance

This paper studies the links between competition in the lending market and spreads of bank loans in Brazil.

José Renato Haas Ornelas

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Marcos Soares da Silva

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Bernardus F Nazar Van Doornik

BIS Working Paper No 674 17 Nov 2017

Credit supply responses to reserve requirement: loan-level evidence from macroprudential policy

This paper estimates the impact of reserve requirements (RR) on credit supply in Brazil, exploring a large loan-level dataset…

João Barata R B Barroso

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Rodrigo Barbone Gonzalez

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Bernardus F Nazar Van Doornik

All external publications (7)

External publication 1 Dec 2025

Strategic formal layoffs: unemployment insurance and informal labor markets

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Bernardus F Nazar Van Doornik

External publication 6 Jun 2024

Financial access and labor market outcomes: evidence from credit lotteries

Bernardus F Nazar Van Doornik

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David Schoenherr

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Janis Skrastins

External publication 1 Apr 2024

Pre-publication revisions of bank financial statements: a novel way to monitor banks?

Bernardus F Nazar Van Doornik

External publication 1 Jan 2022

Informational switching costs, bank competition and the cost of finance

José Renato Haas Ornelas

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Bernardus F Nazar Van Doornik

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Marcos Soares da Silva

External publication 1 Jan 2022

Financial development and labor market outcomes: evidence from Brazil

Bernardus F Nazar Van Doornik

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External publication 1 Dec 2021

Unemployment insurance as a subsidy to risky firms

Bernardus F Nazar Van Doornik

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David Schoenherr

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Janis Skrastins

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External publication 13 Apr 2021

Financial access and labor market outcomes: evidence from credit lotteries

Bernardus F Nazar Van Doornik

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David Schoenherr

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Janis Skrastins

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