Valeriya Dinger

Valeriya Dinger is Chair in Accounting & Finance at Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds, where she joined in 2019 as a part-time Professor of Banking and Finance. She is also Professor of Economics at the Institute for Empirical Economic Research, University of Osnabrück, Germany, with a research focus on macroeconomics and financial systems.

Her research centers on financial markets and institutions, particularly the costs and benefits of bank equity issuance and the interplay between financial frictions and real economic outcomes. These interests align with her affiliations at the International Banking Institute and her academic background in economics.

Dr. Dinger holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Bonn and a Master of Economics from the University of Sofia. She has held visiting positions at the University of Mannheim, Deutsche Bundesbank, Federal Reserve of Cleveland, Norges Bank, and Peking University, reflecting her international academic engagement.

She currently supervises postgraduate researcher Andrea Charalambous. Her work is supported through her institutional affiliations, though specific grants are not mentioned in the provided text.

Valeriya Dinger is actively contributing to academic research in banking and macroeconomics, with strong cross-institutional and international collaborations.