Thorsten Beck

German economist of financial development, banking, and legal institutions

financial developmentbankinglaw and finance

Official Source Note

The European University Institute identifies Beck as Professor of Financial Stability and Director of the Florence School of Banking and Finance. Its profile records his research on banking, financial stability, inclusion, and finance and society.

Beck is included because comparative law-and-finance claims should be connected to evidence on banking structure, competition, institutional quality, and the limits of legal-origin measures.

Source: European University Institute

Relevance to the Archive

Beck adds cross-country evidence on how legal origin, endowments, competition, supervision, and institutional quality relate to financial development and banking stability.

Representative Contributions

Finance and the Sources of Growth (with Ross Levine and Norman Loayza, 2000)
Law and Finance: Why Does Legal Origin Matter? (with Asli Demirgüç-Kunt and Ross Levine, 2003)
Law, Endowments, and Finance (with Asli Demirgüç-Kunt and Ross Levine, 2003)
Bank Concentration, Competition, and Crises (with Asli Demirgüç-Kunt and Ross Levine, 2006)