International Finance
The Research Center studies global financial markets and sovereign debt problems in an increasingly multipolar world. We focus on classic research topics in international finance, such as capital flows, the international financial architecture, and sovereign debt and default, and combine this with questions of geoeconomics, thus exploring the interplay of cross-border finance and geopolitical risk.
We address these questions with a wealth of rich, granular data, which we often self-collect from archives and other non-standard sources. Many of our projects take a long-term perspective, drawing on decades or even centuries of data. This enables us to look beyond the past decades of relative stability and peace to an era in which geopolitical tensions, wars and crises were the norm.
