Peter Wierts

Peter Wierts serves as Associate Professor in the Finance department at VU Amsterdam's School of Business and Economics and concurrently holds the position of Senior Economist at De Nederlandsche Bank's Financial Stability Division since March 2014. His extensive career includes prior roles at the European Systemic Risk Board (2013 short-term secondment), European Commission (DG ECFIN, 2002-2005), and Dutch Ministry of Finance (1996-2002).

He earned his PhD from the University of Reading, establishing his academic foundation in economic policy and financial systems.

Wierts' research centers on financial stability and fiscal policy, with particular emphasis on monetary system evolution, central banking operations, and digital currency frameworks. His work bridges historical monetary analysis with contemporary challenges in crypto assets and central bank digital currencies, while maintaining strong policy relevance through institutions like De Nederlandsche Bank and the European Commission.

His publication trajectory reveals a strategic shift toward digital monetary systems, with 2024 research examining historical fiat money limits through the Bank of Amsterdam case study, followed by 2022 publications analyzing crypto-stablecoin-CBDC interrelationships. Earlier work (2019) established methodological rigor in macroprudential policy evaluation using propensity score matching techniques across credit markets.

No scientific awards are documented in the available materials.

Wierts has supervised at least one PhD thesis while maintaining active research funding through institutional positions at VU Amsterdam and De Nederlandsche Bank. His work demonstrates significant policy impact with 4 documented references in governmental policy sources and substantial academic engagement (62 Mendeley readers, 2 X platform mentions).

He operates within De Nederlandsche Bank's Financial Stability Division conducting real-time policy analysis while contributing to VU Amsterdam's Finance group through collaborative research on monetary architecture and financial regulation frameworks.