Christian Upper
Senior Adviser, Representative Office for the Americas
Monetary and Economic Department
Prior to his current role, Christian Upper headed the Monetary and Economic Department's Macroeconomic Analysis, Emerging Markets, Financial Markets and Monetary Policy and Exchange Rates units. Before coming to Basel, he spent seven years at the Deutsche Bundesbank. Christian holds a doctorate in economics from the European University Institute in Florence and a Master of Science in economics from the University of Warwick. His research focuses on the interaction of financial markets and institutions and the macroeconomy. His work has been published in refereed academic journals as well as in policy publications.
Fields of interest
- Financial markets
- International capital flows
- International finance
- " Simulation methods to assess the danger of contagion in interbank markets", Journal of Financial Stability, vol 7, no 3, pp 111-25, 2011. Also published as BIS Working Papers, no 234.
- " Estimating bilateral exposures in the German interbank market: is there a danger of contagion?" (with A Worms), European Economic Review, vol 48, issue 4, August 2004, pp 827-49.
- " Time variation in the tail behaviour of bund futures returns" (with T Werner), Journal of Futures Markets, vol 24, no 4, April 2004, pp 387-98.
- " Financial crises and economic activity" (with S Cecchetti and M Kohler), in Financial stability and macroeconomic policy, proceedings of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Jackson Hole symposium, 20-22 August 2009.
- " Financial cycles, labour misallocation, and economic stagnation" (with C Borio, E Kharroubi and F Zampolli), VoxEU, 14 April 2016.