Morten Linnemann Bech

Morten Linnemann Bech

Centre Head - Switzerland
BIS Innovation Hub

Morten Bech joined the BIS in mid-2011. Before taking up his current assignment in 2020, he was the head of the secretariat supporting the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures with responsibility for coordinating and contributing to the activities of the Committee and its various working groups. He has also served as Secretary to the Markets Committee. He previously worked for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Danish central bank. In 2009, he was a visitor at the Monetary Affairs Division of the Federal Reserve Board in Washington DC. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has written on various issues relating to monetary policy implementation, money markets, the network topology of financial markets, large-value payment systems and systemic risk.

Fields of interest

  • Monetary policy
  • Financial markets
  • Financial market infrastructures

21 items
December 2017

by Morten Linnemann Bech and Todd Keister

in Journal of Monetary Economics
July 2016

by Cyril Monnet and Morten Linnemann Bech

in Journal of Economic Theory
May 2012

by Morten Linnemann Bech and Yvan Lengwiler

in WWZ Discussion Paper
April 2014
July 2012

by Morten Linnemann Bech and Rodney Garratt

in Journal of Money, Credit and Banking
August 2011

by Carl Bergstrom, Martin Rosvall, Morten Linnemann Bech and Rodney Garratt

in Staff Reports
July 2011

by Elizabeth Klee, Morten Linnemann Bech and Viktors Stebunovs

in Financial and Economic Discussion Series
July 2011

by Elizabeth Klee and Morten Linnemann Bech

in Journal of Monetary Economics
November 2010

by Enghin Atalay and Morten Linnemann Bech

in Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
June 2010

by Adam Ashcraft, Morten Linnemann Bech and W Scott Frame

in Journal of Money, Credit and Banking