Ulf Lewrick

Ulf Lewrick

Senior Economist

Financial Systems & Regulation, Monetary and Economic Department

Ulf Lewrick joined the BIS in February 2012. Before taking up his current assignment in 2015, he worked as an economist in the Secretariat of the Committee on the Global Financial System, where he supported the work of several CGFS Study Groups. Prior to Joining the BIS, Ulf held the position of deputy head of section (2010-12) and economist (2008-10) at the Swiss State Secretariat for International Financial Matters, where he contributed to several of the Swiss government's financial market reform initiatives. Ulf holds a PhD in economics from the University of Basel (2008). His research focuses on issues pertaining to the structure and regulation of financial markets as well as international trade and finance.

Fields of interest

Business cycles and growth
Financial markets
International finance

Date	BIS research papers
Oct 2017	Is the price right? Swing pricing and investor redemptions BIS Working Papers No 664 Other authors: Jochen Schanz
Oct 2017	Liquidity risk in markets with trading frictions: What can swing pricing achieve? BIS Working Papers No 663 Other authors: Jochen Schanz
Nov 2016	Adding it all up: the macroeconomic impact of Basel III and outstanding reform issues BIS Working Papers No 591 Other authors: Ingo Fender
Mar 2016	Hanging up the phone - electronic trading in fixed income markets and its implications BIS Quarterly Review March 2016 Other authors: Morten Linnemann Bech, Anamaria Illes and Andreas Schrimpf
Dec 2015	Calibrating the leverage ratio BIS Quarterly Review December 2015 Other authors: Ingo Fender
Mar 2015	Shifting tides - market liquidity and market-making in fixed income instruments BIS Quarterly Review March 2015 Other authors: Ingo Fender
Oct 2014	When firms and industries matter: understanding the sources of productivity growth BIS Working Papers No 469 Other authors: Lukas Mohler and Rolf Weder
Sep 2013	Mind the gap? Sources and implications of supply-demand imbalances in collateral asset markets BIS Quarterly Review September 2013 Other authors: Ingo Fender

" La suma de todas las partes: el efecto macroeconómico de Basilea III y temas destacados de la reforma" (with I Fender), CEMLA Boletín, vol LXIII, January–March 2017, pp 1–28. Also published (in English) as BIS Working Papers, no 591.
"Trade in variety and domestic production: evidence from US manufacturing" (with L Mohler and R Weder), Canadian Journal of Economics, vol 49, no 4, 2016.