Jana Ohls

Jana Ohls is a Research Professor at the Deutsche Bundesbank, affiliated with the Directorate General Financial Stability. Her research focuses on financial stability, systemic risks in the insurance sector, and the interplay between sovereign risk and financial systems. She has contributed to understanding the exposure of banks and insurers to sovereign debt risks, particularly in the context of the European sovereign debt crisis.

Research Interests:

• Financial Stability Mechanisms
• Systemic Risks in Insurance and Banking
• Sovereign Risk Transmission
• Macroprudential Policy

Key Contributions:

Her work includes analyses of sovereign-bank linkages, regulatory impacts on cross-border banking, and insurer vulnerability to sovereign debt risks. Recent publications explore granular portfolio behaviors of German banks and the spillover effects of sovereign risk on financial institutions.

Publications:

• On the exposure of insurance companies to sovereign risk (2017)
• International Banking and Cross-Border Effects of Regulation (2017)
• Banks and sovereign risk: A granular view (2016)