Christopher Gandrud
Researcher at the Hertie School of Governance
Christopher Gandrud is a Lecturer in Quantitative International Political Economy at City University London and Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Fiscal Governance Centre, Hertie School of Governance. His research focuses on the international political economy of public financial and monetary institutions, as well as applied social science statistics and software development. His work has been published in peer reviewed journals including the Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of Peace Research, Research and Politics, Review of International Political Economy, Political Science Research and Methods, Journal of Statistical Software, and International Political Science Review. He has been a Lecturer in International Relations at Yonsei University and a Fellow in Government at the London School of Economics where in 2012 he completed a PhD in quantitative political science.
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How not to create zombie banks: lessons for Italy from Japan
How can Italian banks address the issue of non-perfoming loans? What lessons can they learn from Japan?
The European Union remains a laggard on banking supervisory transparency
Financial supervisors must provide the public with more information about the European banking sector in order to ensure financial stability. The leve
Opaque Europe: financial supervisory transparency, why it’s important, and how to improve it
“Financial supervisory transparency” has been on the agenda of international financial institutions for some time. It concerns the public availability
Financial regulatory transparency: new data and implications for EU policy
This paper introduces a new international financial regulatory data transparency index - the Financial Regulatory Transparency (FRT) Index - in order
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Policy Brief
08 March 2017
How not to create zombie banks: lessons for Italy from Japan
How can Italian banks address the issue of non-perfoming loans? What lessons can they learn from Japan?
Blog post
10 May 2016
The European Union remains a laggard on banking supervisory transparency
Financial supervisors must provide the public with more information about the European banking sector in order to ensure financial stability. The leve
Blog post
11 December 2015
Opaque Europe: financial supervisory transparency, why it’s important, and how to improve it
“Financial supervisory transparency” has been on the agenda of international financial institutions for some time. It concerns the public availability
Policy Brief
10 December 2015
Financial regulatory transparency: new data and implications for EU policy
This paper introduces a new international financial regulatory data transparency index - the Financial Regulatory Transparency (FRT) Index - in order
Blog post
06 March 2015
Not SIFIs but PIFIs
The EU bank resolution framework deals in principle with risks from SIFIs, or systemically important financial institutions, but might have overlooked
Working paper
16 December 2014
Bad banks in the EU: the impact of Eurostat rules
At least 12 European Union member states used publicly created asset management companies (AMCs), otherwise known as a ‘badbanks’ to respond to
Policy Brief
03 January 2014
Supervisory transparency in the European banking union
Current and planned European Union requirements on bank transparency are either insufficient or could be easily sidestepped by supervisors. A banking
Policy Brief
29 November 2013
Who decides? Resolving failed banks in a European framework
When public support is provided to failed institutions it should come from a bankfunded resolution fund. This would reduce taxpayers’ direct costs, an