Peter Bednarek

Peter Bednarek is a Senior Economist at the Deutsche Bundesbank's Directorate General Financial Stability since 2015. His work focuses on financial stability, bank lending, credit risk-taking, and interbank market dynamics.

Research Interests:

• Financial Crises and Shock Transmission
• Real Effects of Monetary Policy
• Interbank Market Efficiency
• Relationship Lending and Risk Propagation
• Capital Flow Impacts on Regional Economies

Publications: He has authored/co-authored major studies on topics like ECB's central bank funding effects on risk-taking, exchange rate depreciation impacts on loan supply, and interbank market resilience during crises. His work appears in Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, and Review of Financial Studies.

Awards:

• FMA Best Paper Award 2018 (European Conference) in 'Financial Institutions & Markets'

Technical Contributions: Peter has led technical analyses on stressed credit portfolio allocation and European bond yield spreads, contributing to macroprudential policy frameworks.