Joao Rafael Cunha

Accepting Postgraduate Research Students

PhD projects

1. Financial Regulation (e.g. Is there a financial regulation cycle? How does it behave? What are its features?)

2. Political Economy of Financial Regulation (e.g. What political factors influence financial regulation?; How do private interests affect financial regulation?; How does voting affect financial regulation?)

3. Macro-Finance (e.g. How does the credit cycle influence the business cycle?; What is the relationship between credit cycles and medium-run swings in economic growth?; What explains the heterogeneity in the impact of financial crises across countries?; What is the impact of credit conditions on the economy?)

4. Banking (e.g. Is there a significant trade-off between competition and stability in the banking sector?; How should regulation and competition policy interact in the banking sector?; How should the banking sector specificity in competition policy be dealt with?; What should be the role of competition policy in the banking sector?; Can Open Banking improve competition?)