Detken, Carsten

Carsten Detken

Financial Stability

 carsten.detken@ecb.europa.eu

Functions:

  • Head, Financial Stability Surveillance Division, Directorate General Financial Stability, ECB, Frankfurt
  • Chair ESRB Expert Group on Guidance on Setting Countercyclical Capital Buffers
  • Co-chair ESCB Macroprudential Research Network (MaRs) on Early Warning Systems and Systemic Risk Indicators
  • Chair of FSC/EBA Impact Study Group on Procyclicality of Capital Requirements Workstream
  • Chair FSC Expert Group on Survey on Credit Terms and Conditions in Euro denominated Securities Financing and OTC Derivatives Markets

Fields of interest:

  • Financial Economics
  • Monetary Economics
  • International Economics
  • Fiscal Policy

Education:

  • Ph. D. in economics, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, 1994
  • Visiting scholar University of California Berkeley, 1991/92
  • Masters in economics (equivalent), University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, 1988
  • Bachelor in economic sciences (equivalent), University of Münster, Germany, 1986

Professional experience:

  • since Sept. 2010 Head of Division, Financial Stability Surveillance, ECB, Frankfurt
  • 1998 - 2010 Directorate General Research, ECB, Frankfurt (2005-2010 Senior Adviser to Director General)
  • 1997-1998 Senior Economist, European Monetary Institute, Frankfurt
  • 1995-1997 Associate Director, Swiss Bank Corporation, Basel
  • 2005-2010 Member of CNB Research Advisory Committee

Awards:

  • CEPR/ESI Prize 2009 for the best Central Bank Research Paper
No. Title Authors
1723Identifying excessive credit growth and leverageDetken, Carsten, Alessi, Lucia
1604Setting countercyclical capital buffers based on early warning models: would it work?Detken, Carsten, Peltonen, Tuomas A., Schudel, Willem, Behn, Markus
1039'Real time'early warning indicators for costly asset price boom/bust cycles: a role for global liquidityDetken, Carsten, Alessi, Lucia
732Liquidity shocks and asset price boom/bust cyclesDetken, Carsten, Adalid, Ramón
420On prosperity and posterity: the need for fiscal discipline in a monetary unionDetken, Carsten, Winkler, Bernhard, Gaspar, Ví­tor
364Asset price booms and monetary policyDetken, Carsten, Smets, Frank
241Maintaining price stability under free-floating: a fearless way out of the corner?Detken, Carsten, Gaspar, Ví­tor
160Model uncertainty and the equilibrium value of the real effective euro exchange rateDetken, Carsten, Henry, Jérôme, Smets, Frank, Dieppe, Alistair, Marin, Carmen
89Monetary policy and fears of financial instabilityBrousseau, Vincent, Detken, Carsten
19The euro and international capital marketsDetken, Carsten, Hartmann, Philipp
3Fiscal policy effectiveness and neutrality results in a non-Ricardian worldDetken, Carsten
No. Title Authors
194A new database for financial crises in European countriesLo Duca, Marco, Koban, Anne, Basten, Marisa, Bengtsson, Elias, Klaus, Benjamin, Kusmierczyk, Piotr, Lang, Jan Hannes, Detken, Carsten, Peltonen, Tuomas A.
Title Authors Where
Government, Trade Unions and the Macroeconomy Carsten Detken and Manfred Gärtner Public Choice
Are German Unions Rocking the Economy? A Reappraisal of the Supply-Side-Political-Business-Cycle Hypothesis Carsten Detken and Manfred Gärtner Applied Economics
The Euro and International Capital Markets Carsten Detken and Philipp Hartmann International Finance
Determinants of the Effective Real Exchange Rate of the Synthetic Euro: Alternative Methodological Approaches Carsten Detken, Alistair Dieppe, Jerome Henry, Carmen Marin and Frank Smets Australian Economic Papers
Features of the Euro's Role in International Financial Markets Carsten Detken and Philipp Hartmann Economic Policy
Quasi real time early warning indicators for costly asset price boom/bust cycles: a role for global liquidity Lucia Alessi and Carsten Detken European Journal of Political Economy