
Jon Frost
Senior Economist
Innovation and the Digital Economy unit, MED
Jon Frost conducts policy-oriented research on fintech and digital innovation. He has published on fintech, big tech in finance, central bank digital currencies, stablecoins, capital flows, and technology and inequality. Previously, Jon worked at the Financial Stability Board, Netherlands Bank, VU University in Amsterdam, and in the private sector in Germany. Jon holds a PhD in economics from the University of Groningen. He is a research affiliate of the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance at the University of Cambridge. He is a Board member in the FinTech@CSAIL initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Fields of interest
- Financial stability and macro-prudential issues
- Economic development
- Central banking
- " From financial innovation to inclusion" (with L Gambacorta and H S Shin), IMF Finance and Development (F&D), spring 2021.
- " The economic forces driving fintech adoption across countries" in M King and R Nesbitt (eds), The technological revolution in financial services, 2020.
- " SME Finance in Asia: recent innovations in fintech credit, trade finance, and beyond" (with G Cornelli, V Davidson, L Gambacorta and K Oishi), Asian Development Bank, ADBI Working Papers, October 2019.
- " Effective macroprudential policy: cross-sector substitution from price and quantity measures" (with J Cizel, A Houben and P Wierts), Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, August 2019.