Ulf Lewrick
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, where he is also a research fellow in the faculty of economics. His research focuses on issues pertaining to the structure and regulation of banks, investment funds and financial markets.
Fields of interest
- Business cycles and growth
- Financial markets
- International finance
- " Is window dressing by banks systemically important?" (with L Garcia and T Sečnik), SUERF Policy Brief, no 195, October 2021.
- " Does regulation only bite the less profitable? Evidence from the too-big-to-fail reforms" (with T Goel and A Mathur), Bank of England, Staff Working Papers, no 946, October 2021.
- " Window dressing systemic importance: evidence from EU banks and the G-SIB framework" (with L Garcia and T Sečnik), EBA Staff Papers Series, April 2021.
- " Bank capital allocation under multiple constraints" (with T Goel and N Tarashev), Journal of Financial Intermediation, October 2019.
- " Productivity growth from an international trade perspective" (with L Mohler and R Weder), Review of International Economics, vol 26, no 2, May 2018, pp 339–56.
- "Towards a macroprudential framework for investment funds: swing pricing and investor redemptions" (with J Schanz), International Journal of Central Banking, forthcoming.
- "Trade in variety and domestic production: evidence from US manufacturing" (with L Mohler and R Weder), Canadian Journal of Economics, vol 49, no 4, November 2016, pp 1631-57.
- " 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.
- " 全面阐释：巴塞尔协议III的宏观经济影响和剩余改革问题" (with I Fender), CBRC Working Paper 2017-10, 2017. Chinese translation of BIS Working Papers, no 591.