Ron Berndsen

Prof. Ron Berndsen is a Professor in the Department of Economics at Tilburg University, affiliated with the Tilburg School of Economics and Management (TiSEM). His research focuses on financial market infrastructures, payment systems, and systemic risk. He holds the Chair of Financial Market Infrastructures and authored an introductory textbook using a 'Warehouse Metaphor' to explain how financial value is exchanged, supervised, and innovated. His work emphasizes liquidity management in payment networks, resilience of central counterparties (CCPs), and regulatory frameworks.

Key research interests include systemic risk mitigation, CCP failure analysis, and the impact of technological innovations on financial systems. He has advised PhD students on topics ranging from digitization of payments to anomaly detection in banking systems.

Recent publications explore contagion paths in payment networks, liquidity management via neural networks, and the resilience of central clearing systems. His contributions bridge academic research with practical insights for central banks and financial regulators.