Luc Laeven

Luc Laeven is a prominent academic researcher affiliated with institutions including the European Central Bank (ECB) as Director-General of the Directorate General Research, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as Lead Economist, and the World Bank as Senior Financial Economist. He is also a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI).

• Education: Tilburg University, University of Amsterdam, London School of Economics

Research Interests focus on international banking, corporate finance, monetary policy, and financial regulation, with recent work analyzing profit shifting, central bank digital currencies, and macroprudential policy interactions.

Publications span topics such as corporate debt dynamics, tax avoidance, and financial crisis containment, appearing in journals like the American Economic Review and the Journal of Financial Economics.