2019 | ‘Private Credit Money Accommodation. Rethinking Monetary Sovereignty (with Jens van ‘t Klooster)
The conventional way of thinking about the monetary system implies that we live in a world of ´fiat money’. The state – typically represented by the central bank—is conceived as the primary authority that creates […]
2019 | ‘Private Debt as Shadow Money? Conceptual Criteria, Empirical Evaluation and Implications for Financial Stability’
Following the 2007-9 Financial Crisis, scholars have come to perceive the financial structures that faced a run at the time as ‘shadow banking system’. According to this narrative, the shadow banking system does on series […]
2017 | ‘The Political Economy of Private Credit Money Accommodation. A Study of Bank Notes, Bank Deposits and Shadow Money’, PhD thesis
Private credit money forms are debt instruments that co-exist alongside publicly provided forms of money and emerge de-centrally out of the lending activities of banks or non-bank financial institutions. In normal times, they are easily […]
2017 | ‘Shadow Money and the Public Money Supply. The Impact of the 2007-2009 Financial Crisis on the Monetary System’, Review of International Political Economy
This article explores the effects of the political reactions to the 2007–2009 financial crisis on the monetary system. It chimes in with the view that shadow banks create ‘shadow money’, i.e. private substitutes for bank […]