Jon Frost

Jon Frost

Head of Economics for the Americas (EFTA)
Office for the Americas

Jon Frost heads the Economics for the Americas (EFTA) team in the BIS Americas Office in Mexico City. He has published on fintech, big tech in finance, central bank digital currencies, stablecoins, capital flows, and technology and inequality. Previously, Jon worked in the BIS Innovation and the Digital Economy (IDE) unit, and prior to that at the Financial Stability Board, the 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, and has served as 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

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Spring 2021

by Hyun Song Shin, Jon Frost and Leonardo Gambacorta

in IMF Finance and Development (F&D)
2020

by Jon Frost

in The technological revolution in financial services
October 2019

by Giulio Cornelli, Jon Frost, K Oishi, Leonardo Gambacorta and V Davidson

in ADBI Working Papers
August 2019

by A Houben, J Cizel, Jon Frost and P Wierts

in Journal of Money, Credit and Banking
Forthcoming
Tackling the risks in crypto: choosing among bans, containment and regulation

by Andreas Schrimpf, Jon Frost and Matteo Aquilina

in NBER Working Paper
April 2023

by Hyun Song Shin, Jon Frost, Leonardo Gambacorta, Sebastian Doerr and Sharon Chen

in Journal of Financial Intermediation
March 2023

by Giulio Cornelli, Jon Frost, Leonardo Gambacorta, Raghavendra Rau, Robert Wardrop and Tania Ziegler

in Journal of Banking and Finance
January 2023

by Andreas Schrimpf, Jon Frost and Matteo Aquilina

in CEPR Discussion Paper
Forthcoming

by Alexandre Tombini, Carlos CantĂș, Carolina Velasquez, Christian Upper, Jaime Cortina and Jon Frost

October 2022

by Jon Frost, Leonardo Gambacorta and Romina Gambacorta

in Journal of Economic Behaviour & Organization