Aleksander Berentsen

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Aleksander Berentsen (born December 7, 1962 in Milan ) is a Swiss economist. He holds the Chair of Economic Theory and has been Dean of the Faculty of Economics at the University of Basel since 2016 .

Life

Aleksander Berentsen studied economics at the University of Basel and at the London School of Economics . From 1992 he was teaching and research assistant at the Faculty of Law and Economics at the University of Bern. In 1996 he received his doctorate on the subjects of monetary theory and information economy . He then went to the University of California at Berkeley as a visiting scholar for a year (1996/97). He then returned to the University of Bern as a research assistant, where he also completed his habilitation under Ernst Baltensperger (2003). From 2001 to 2005 he was assistant professor for economic theory at the University of Basel and since 2005 he has been a full professor for economic theory at the University of Basel.

His research interests lie in the areas of monetary theory, monetary policy, financial markets, cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies. In these areas he held numerous mandates at various central banks and the Bank for International Settlements in Basel (BIS). Since 2009 he has been a Research Fellow at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Between 2014 and 2016 he worked as a consultant for the Swiss National Bank and in 2011 he was a Bundesbank professor at the Free University of Berlin .

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Aleksander Berentsen has published in major journals, including the American Economic Review , the Review of Economic Studies and the Journal of Monetary Economics . He is one of the first German-speaking economists to grapple with the economic aspects of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and is the co-author of several publications - including the bestseller book “Bitcoin, Blockchain and Kryptoassets”. His first work on the monetary policy effects of digital money was published in 1998.

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• The Case for Central Bank Electronic Money and the Non-case for Central Bank Cryptocurrencies, 2018. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, Second Quarter, 97–106 (with Fabian Schär, University of Basel).
• A Short Introduction to the World of Cryptocurrencies, 2018. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, First Quarter, 1–16 (with Fabian Schär, University of Basel).
• Exit Strategies for Monetary Policy, 2018. Journal of Monetary Economics, November 2018, Pages 20–40 (with Sébastien Kraenzlin and Benjamin Müller, Swiss National Bank).
• Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Cryptoassets: A Comprehensive Introduction. BoD Norderstedt, 2017 (with Fabian Schär, University of Basel).
• Inflation and Unemployment in the Long Run, 2011. American Economic Review, 101 (1), 371–98 (with Guido Menzio, University of Pennsylvania , USA and Randall Wright, University of Wisconsin-Madison ).
• Money, Credit and Banking, 2007. Journal of Economic Theory, 135 (1), 171–195 (with Gabriele Camera, Purdue University , USA, and Christopher Waller, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, USA).
• On the Private Provision of Fiat Currency, 2006. European Economic Review, 50 (7), 1683-1698.
• Monetary Policy Implications of Digital Money, 1998. Kyklos (International Review of Social Sciences), 51 (1), 89-117.

Web links

• Literature by Aleksander Berentsen on IDEAS
• Aleksander Berentsen on the website of the University of Basel.
• Aleksander Berentsen's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://wwz.unibas.ch/de/berentsen/
2. ↑ https://research.stlouisfed.org/econ/berentsen/sel/
3. ↑ https://www.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/fachbereich/vwl/bundesbank/ehem_Gastprofessoren/Prof__Dr__Aleksander_Berentsen.html
4. ↑ https://ideas.repec.org/e/pbe22.html
5. ↑ https://ideas.repec.org/a/fip/fedlrv/00092.html
6. ↑ https://ideas.repec.org/a/fip/fedlrv/00097.html
7. ↑ http://www.blockchainbuch.de
8. ↑ https://ideas.repec.org/p/pra/mprapa/37392.html