Yuliyan Mitkov

Yuliyan Mitkov serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Finance at the University of Vienna, specializing in banking, financial stability, and macroeconomics. His research examines critical intersections between debt structures, innovation incentives, and systemic risk in financial systems.

His academic background includes:

• Economics studies at institutions in Sofia and Barcelona
• PhD in Economics from Rutgers University (2017)

Professor Mitkov's research portfolio spans Banking, Financial Stability, Macroeconomics, Financial Economics, Innovation, Game Theory, and Income Inequality. He develops theoretical frameworks analyzing how income inequality influences financial fragility, how debt maturity affects corporate innovation under incomplete contracts, and how coordination failures trigger bank runs. His work provides policy-relevant insights for financial regulation and crisis management through rigorous mathematical modeling.

Analysis of his publication trajectory since 2020 reveals consistent focus on microfoundations of financial crises, with recent work (2023-2025) increasingly integrating game-theoretic approaches to study bail-in mechanisms, sunspot-driven bank runs, and debt maturity structures. His 2025 paper on coordinated attack games represents cutting-edge methodological innovation in explaining self-fulfilling financial panics.

Prior to his Vienna appointment, he contributed as a cluster member at the University of Bonn starting in 2019, participating in interdisciplinary financial systems research.

Information regarding student supervision, grant funding, and laboratory affiliations is not documented in available sources.