December 2016
UK FINANCIAL REFORMS:
Bank of England 2.0
Claude Lopez and Elham Saeidinezhad
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UK Financial Reforms: Bank of England 2.0
Claude Lopez and Elham Saeidinezhad
A few months ago, we produced a timetable for the implementation of U.S. financial reform under the
Dodd-Frank Act.1 One of the main observations was that the legislation did little to consolidate
regulation outside of banking. In contrast, the analogous UK reform legislation, the Financial Services
Act, made the Bank of England (BoE) the center of UK financial and monetary stability. A 2016
amendment confirmed and strengthened the bank’s role.
However, a significant number of UK financial rules are based on European Union regulations, and
currently, as a member of the single market, the UK is subject to them. That membership also has given
Britain a voice in EU rule making through representation in both the European Parliament and the
Council of Ministers. The UK implements EU rules either by transposing EU directives into British law or
by directly enforcing EU regulations. These differences are important, especially as Britain and the EU
prepare for the approaching Brexit: To maintain the current regulatory framework, the UK will have to
transpose all the EU regulations into its national law. This is even more important now with the EU’s
increased usage of regulations as the final stage of the Basel III accord’s implementation approaches.
Furthermore, the EU’s regulatory framework itself is a work in progress, with key deadlines in 2018 and
2019. Forsaking EU membership will limit the UK’s ability to influence this process, although it may be
obligated to follow the rules that result, because they are mostly driven by international regulatory
efforts that include non-EU countries such as the U.S.
Before assessing these challenges, this paper establishes a timeline summarizing the status of financial
regulatory reform in the UK. It then identifies some of the forthcoming difficulties, including Brexit and
the recent evolution of macroprudential policies among developed countries.
Milestone Timeline
In response to the global financial and European sovereign debt crises, as well as the Libor scandal, the
UK fundamentally reformed its regulation of financial services. This new framework, presented in the
Financial Services Act 2012, makes the Bank of England responsible for financial stability and places a
strong emphasis on macroprudential policy. Monitoring systemically important institutions, markets,
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Lopez and Saeidinezhad (2016).
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and activities is at the core of the act, the UK implementation of the Basel III accord.2 The act focuses on
four main issues: strengthening financial stability via enhanced prudential rules; identifying and
monitoring systemically important financial institutions (SIFIs) and providing orderly resolution when
necessary; increasing consumer protection and promoting competition; and enhancing the integrity of
markets, including derivatives dealing and pension fund activities.
Table 1, on page 10, shows the goals and implementation dates of the main regulatory changes in the
UK We discuss these changes chronologically below.
2012
As noted, 2012 was a turning point for the UK regulatory architecture. The Financial Services Act
completed the regulatory structural reform by abolishing the UK Financial Service Authority and creating
three new financial regulators: the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the Prudential Regulation
Authority (PRA), and the Financial Policy Committee (FPC). As shown in Figure 1, the BoE houses the PRA
and the FPC. The new regulators’ mission is to identify, prevent, and, if necessary, respond quickly to
financial stability issues.
Figure 1. Regulatory Architecture of UK
Bank of England
Financial
Policy Committee
Policy recommendation
Prudential Regulation
Authority
Prudential regulation
Financial
market
infrastructures
2
Banks, building
societies, credit unions,
insurers, and major
investment firms
Financial Conduct Authority
Conduct
regulation
Prudential and
conduct
regulation
Investment firms and other
financial services that are not
designated by the PRA, such as
investment exchanges,
insurance brokers, and fund
managers
http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/financialstability/Pages/default.aspx.
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2013
Under the authority of the Financial Services (Banking Reform) Act, the government implements several
new banking regulations, many driven by Basel III. As a result, the BoE/PRA uses size,
interconnectedness, complexity, and business type as criteria to sort all national deposit-takers,
investment firms, and insurers into five categories reflecting their potential impact on the financial
system. Regulatory stringency is based on the degree of risk posed by each category, with the first
category consisting of institutions whose failure would significantly disrupt the UK financial system.3 The
concept of “ring fencing” is introduced this year. Large deposit-takers should ring-fence, or insulate,
their investment banking activities from their retail operations. In contrast with the Volcker Rule in the
U.S., the UK approach does not require ring-fenced bodies to be a separate legal entity from the group
that engages in excluded activities. Instead, they must be sufficiently independent of this group.
However, it is only in 2016 that the BoE/FPC provide some guidance regarding ring fencing’s
implementation, with 2019 being the target implementation date.
Furthermore, key EU directives and regulations start being transposed, or converted into British law, and
implemented to improve market integrity and security dealing. These include the European Market
Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR), which regulates the derivatives market, in particular OTC derivatives,
central counterparties (CCPs), and trade repositories; the Alternative Investment Fund Managers
Directive (AIFMD), which regulates hedge funds, private equity, and real estate funds; and the Financial
Conglomerates Directive, which focuses on large financial groups active in different financial sectors,
often across borders, and promotes convergence in national supervisory approaches and between
sectors. The BoE, in charge of the supervision of financial market infrastructure (FMI), relies on directly
applicable EU regulations, accompanied by binding technical standards for the supervision of CCP and
securities settlement systems.4
Finally, two other notable reforms focus on consumer protection. The Mortgage Market Rule gives the
FCA power to regulate mortgage activity and to act upon poor practices where they emerge; the
Temporary Product Intervention Rule empowers the FCA to intervene temporarily in the financial
market if consumer protection is needed urgently, without seeking public comment.
2014
In 2014, the BoE/FPC implements the second phase of the SIFIs framework and publishes the first result
of stress testing for the UK banking system.5
Furthermore, financial governance within the EU is strengthened and harmonized by the creation of a
“single rulebook,” which applies to the financial sector across the entire European Union, with the aim
3
The BoE/PRA prudentially supervise banks, insurers and systemically important investment firms. The FCA is prudentially
supervisor of all other financial firms.
4
These UK and EU regulations and standards in turn follow global standards drawn up by central banks and securities market
regulators working together through the Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems (CPSS) and the International
Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO).
5
The Committee of European Banking Supervisors ran EU-wide stress tests in 2009 and 2010. Starting in 2011, the European
Banking Authority has been running EU-wide stress tests every two years.
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of enhancing financial market transparency and integrity. The provisions of the single rulebook are set
out in three main legislative acts:
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Capital Requirements Regulation and Directive (CRD IV), which implements the Basel III capital
requirements for banks. The CRD must be implemented through national law, whereas the
Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR) is directly applicable to firms across the EU.6
Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive (BRRD), which establishes a harmonized framework for
the recovery and resolution of credit institutions and investment firms found to be in danger of
failing.
Deposit Guarantee Scheme Directive (DGSD), which regulates deposit insurance in case of a
bank’s inability to meet its liabilities.
CRD IV was implemented in the UK in 2014 and DGSD and BRRD were implemented in 2015.
The Financial Stability Information Power also enables the BoE/PRA “to require a person to provide
information or documents relevant to the stability of one or more aspects of the UK financial system."7
At the same time, the FCA expanded its supervisory authority to all firms, financial or nonfinancial, that
provide consumer credit. It also pushes legislation, such as the Client Assets Regime for Investment
Business (CASS), to improve competition and regulatory transparency while protecting investors.8
2015
In 2015, the BoE/PRA and FCA publish their final rules regarding the last step of the SIFIs framework:
recovery and resolution planning. The SIFIs supervision is extended to the insurance industry at the
European level, with the implementation of the Solvency II Directive scheduled for 2016. In anticipation,
the BoE/PRA performs the first general insurance stress testing.9
Several major EU rules, mostly related to conduct in an effort to increase transparency and investor and
consumer protection, are transposed into UK law. These include the Markets in Financial Instruments
Directive II (MiFID), which, with the accompanying Regulation Markets in Financial Instruments
Regulation (MiFIR) and technical standards—collectively MiFID II—build on and extend the scope of
MiFID I that created a single market for investment services and activities.10 However, its
implementation date is later delayed to 2018.
6
Most capital requirement aspects of CRD IV, such as minimum capital requirements and capital buffer requirements, have
already become binding legislation. Liquidity requirements, i.e., the liquidity coverage ratio (LCR) and the net stable funding
ratio (NSFR), are still a work in progress, with full implementation planned by 2018. Leverage ratios are expected to be reported
by the end of 2016, with legislation to make it a binding measure—if necessary—as of 2018.
7
Prudential Regulation Authority (2014, p. 3).
8
The UK Treasury transferred credit consumer regulatory authority to the FCA. While most of the rules took effect in 2014, the
transitional period for certain prudential requirements on debt management ends in 2017.
9
The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) started its first sets of EU-wide stress tests in 2011. It
grew to be part of the implementation of Solvency II, in 2015, and included 50% of insurance companies per country. Starting in
2015, PRA conducts a general insurance stress test exercise for all Category 1 and 2 UK-regulated general insurers as part of the
act. Additional, major UK insurers go through EU-wide EIOPA stress tests.
10
https://www.esma.europa.eu/policy-rules/mifid-ii-and-mifir.
11
UCITS V also harmonizes the administrative regimes for mutual funds across the EU.
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2016
Many of the 2016 changes focus on improving market integrity and increasing consumer and investor
protection. The implementation of pension reforms forces significant changes in the pensions and
retirement income market. The reforms reflect the FCA’s goal of ensuring that consumers have access to
products and services that are well governed and deliver value within open, competitive, and innovative
markets. The reforms require firms to make significant operational and technical changes. This period of
change will continue in 2017 with the introduction of a secondary annuity market.
Other changes such as the Senior Managers Regime, Senior Insurance Managers Regime, and
Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities Directive (UCITS V) focus on
strengthening personal accountability for the management of designated firms.11 The Bank of England
and Financial Services Act expands the notion of enhanced accountability to all firms. This last piece of
legislation confirms and reinforces the central place of the Bank of England in terms of monetary and
financial stability.
The Road Ahead
Nearly a decade after the global financial crisis, the implementation of UK financial reform remains a
work in progress. Furthermore, recent international developments, from Brexit to the potential of
diverging macroprudential and monetary policy among leading economies, such as the U.S. and Europe,
threaten to weaken resolve to implement worldwide coordinated financial policy.
As noted above, implementation dates are approaching for many of the regulations. For banking reform,
the last step of the SIFIs approach, recovery and resolution, requires the BoE to establish the Minimum
Requirement for Own Funds and Eligible Liabilities (MREL) regime to ensure that firms have sufficient
capacity to absorb losses, so that their failure would not disrupt the larger economy. In November 2016,
the BoE set MREL’s technical standards and extended full implementation to 2022, with the exception of
“global systemically important banks,” which must meet the FSB’s total loss-absorbing capacity by 2019.
Implementation of the ring-fencing rule also is planned for 2019.
Similarly, for the nonbanking sector, major reforms either have a forthcoming implementation date or
are still at a negotiation/design stage. The European money market fund reform has yet to become law,
while significant reforms to stabilize activities in the capital markets, such as EMIR and MiFID II, are a
work in progress; although EMIR has already come into force, technical requirements that are key to its
implementation aren’t complete. Furthermore, the implementation date for MiFID II has been delayed
until January 2018. These two regulations, combined with the Central Securities Depositories Regulation
(CSDR), are the three pillars of a framework to regulate systemically important securities infrastructures.
CSDR came into force in 2014; however, many of the requirements will not apply until technical
standards become UK law. Finally, while central counterparties (CCPs) are the form of financial market
infrastructure (FMI) that have attracted the most attention from regulators, securities settlement
11
UCITS V also harmonizes the administrative regimes for mutual funds across the EU.
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systems are key to reducing credit and liquidity risk, especially during market distress, and very little has
been done to address the problem.12
The timing of these implementations coincides with the timeline for Brexit. As noted above, the UK
regulatory system relies heavily on EU rules that, as an EU member, the UK helped design. Beyond
removing the UK’s voice and expertise in influencing future policies, Brexit will have a direct impact on
existing processes. These include “passporting” and clearing euro-denominated derivatives. Changes to
either could cause significant disruption for both the UK and EU.
Passporting: This refers to the ability of any financial firm registered in one of 28 EU states, plus Iceland,
Liechtenstein, and Norway, to operate throughout the entire region without any additional
authorization. Furthermore, it makes the process more efficient thanks to features such as home state
supervision, which reduces regulatory burdens. It also allows exemptions from local regulatory deposit
requirements, which decrease costs by enabling British firms to run relatively large international
businesses as branches rather than as separately capitalized subsidiaries. Passporting is essential to
some of the current regulations such as MiFID and CRD IV. Its demise would have a significant impact,
especially for banking, since about a fifth of the UK banking sector’s annual revenue depends on it.13 As
currently defined, passporting rights are linked directly to EU single-market membership, again with the
exceptions of Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein.
Euro-denominated derivatives clearing: About 75 percent of European trading in euro-denominated
interest-rate swaps, a major type of derivative, takes place in the UK, compared with 13 percent in
France and 2 percent in Germany.14 In 2015, the European Court of Justice strengthened London’s role
in derivatives clearing by ruling against the European Central Bank (ECB) requirement for CCPs involved
in securities clearing to be within the euro zone. The court specified that “the ECB does not have the
competence necessary to impose such a requirement” and that location was not a requirement of the
Treaty on Functioning of the European Union.15 Besides the expertise of clearinghouses such as LCH, a
key component for this ruling was the UK’s membership in the EU.
Finally, the success of financial regulation in mitigating systemic risk ultimately relies on international
coordination. Such coordination, and subordination of national specificities, came easily amid the
urgency of the financial crisis and its immediate aftermath. Since then, differing rates of recovery and
the expectation of diverging monetary policies have refocused regulators’ attention on their countries’
individual needs.
Divergence in macroprudential policy and international coordination: The erosion of international policy
coordination is particularly notable in banking. In the days following the Brexit vote, the BoE/FPC
12
The system helps ensure that payments accompany deliveries of securities. It thereby reduces liquidity risk and credit risk by
decreasing the chance that deliveries or payments would be withheld during periods of financial stress.
13
Scarpetta and Booth (2016) estimate that around a fifth of the UK banking sector’s annual revenue depends on passporting,
compared with around 11% of the insurance market gross written premium and 7% of the asset managed in the UK They also
discuss the limitation of existing alternatives to passporting, such as equivalence and negotiating bespoke deals and local
arrangements.
14
Bank for International Settlements statistics (April 2016).
15
General Court of the European Union (2015).
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announced the loosening of some of the newest macroprudential requirements in order to strengthen
the resilience of UK banks in anticipation of heightened economic uncertainty.16 In September, the
European Commission hinted that it might not accept the final stage of Basel III reforms, saying, “[We]
need an intelligent solution which takes account of the individual banks’ situations and maintains a risksensitive approach to setting capital requirements. Different banks have different business models
which involve different levels of risk.” 17 At the same time, the U.S. Federal Reserve is supportive of more
stringent measures in the last stage.18
Difficult negotiations between the EU and the U.S. are not new. Reaching an agreement to accept one
another’s derivatives rules took three years, a lengthy negotiation considering that a lack of
convergence would have been quite disruptive to the derivatives market. Yet, when it comes to banking
regulation, the differences may be even more deeply ingrained in regional specificities. The EU and the
UK rely heavily on banks. More than 90 percent of corporate debt in Europe consists of bank loans, with
less than 10 percent coming from the corporate bond markets. Lending in the U.S. is more balanced.19
Furthermore, large European banks historically have been global leaders in cross-border lending. As a
result, their business model, which often includes a relatively strong international exposure, may appear
less threatening to European regulators than to their U.S. counterparts. The European commissioner in
charge of the Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union, in line with many
European regulators, has recently emphasized a conceptual difference in the context of finalizing Basel
III: “It is perfectly normal for a bank focused on lending in a sector and region with low risks to have
lower average risk weights than a bank operating elsewhere.”
When it comes to financial regulations, it matters very little whether the UK is part of the EU, as the new
regulatory framework is an international initiative. Basel III and its attempt to standardize information
sharing and assessment methods enabled more rigorous monitoring of the banking sector. Ultimately,
the Basel reforms should also avoid divergence of requirements and minimize the compliance burden
across jurisdictions, geographic or otherwise (domestic SIFIs versus global SIFIs).
However, this harmonized regulatory framework applies to countries that have different economic
performances, monetary policy, and financial markets. As a result, while it makes monitoring more
efficient, it does not imply that the appropriate policy response should be the same across countries. In
other words, different business models between large U.S. and European banks or between industries,
such as asset managers and banks, require different policy choices, even in terms of macroprudential
policy.
16
FPC loosened its macroprudential standards by excluding central bank reserves from the exposure measure in the current UK
leverage ratio framework. It also reduced the UK countercyclical capital buffer rate for the largest banks and allowed insurance
companies some flexibility in Solvency II regulations when recalculating transitional measures. See records of FPC meetings for
June 25, July 12 and September 20.
17
Dombrovskis (2016).
18
Tarullo (2016).
19
Based on BIS data, the composition of EU, UK and U.S. bank loan (debt issuance) can be approximate; 90 (10), 71 (29) and 56
(44) percent, respectively, Wright (2015).
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Table 1. Goals and implementations 20
Financial stability
Financial Services Act
Targeted outcome
Implement a new regulatory
framework
Target
Financial system and
financial services
Implementation
2012, 2013, and 2017
Prudential rules, such as
Requirements Directive IV
(CRD IV)
Implementation of Basel III’s
prudential regulation
Banks, building
societies, and
21
investment firms
January 2014, with full
implementation in
January 2019
Solvency II Directive
Harmonize EU insurance
regulation
Insurers
Implemented in January
2016
Standards for financial
market infrastructure
Harmonize with international
standards
Recognized payment
system, securities
settlement systems,
and recognized
clearinghouse (RCH)
April 2013, with full
implementation by
2018-19
Deposit Guarantee
Scheme Directive (DGSD)
Prevent depositors from
making panic withdrawals from
banks
Banks, building
societies, and credit
union
July 2015
Central Securities
Depositories Regulation
(CSDR)
Harmonize the authorization
and supervision of EU CSDs and
certain settlement aspects,
such as timing and conduct of
securities settlement
An institution that
holds financial
instruments, including
equities, bonds, money
market instruments,
and mutual funds
September 2014, with
full implementation by
2017
Financial stability
information
power
Improving financial stability by
requiring firms to provide
information or documents that
the PRA considers are, or might
be, relevant to the stability of
one or more aspects of the UK
financial system.
PRA regulated firms
June 2014
SIFIs
Targeted outcome
Target
Implementation
Designation/categorization
Identify the different degree of
risk an institution can generate
for the financial system
Banks, building
societies, credit unions,
insurers, and major
investment firms
April 2013
Stress testing (UK & EUwide stress test)
Assess the system’s capital
adequacy in order to enhance
its resilience under stress
Banks, insurance
companies, investment
firms, and CCPs
At the European level,
bank stress testing
started in 2011,
insurance in 2016, CCPs
22
20
As of October 2016.
A building society is a financial institution owned by its members as a mutual organization. It offers banking and related
financial services, especially savings and mortgage lending (source: Wikipedia).
22
The first set of categorization occurred in April 2013 and designation occurred in December 2013.
21
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23
in 2016. BoE via PRA
started bank stress
testing in 2014; for
insurance, in 2016
Bank and Investment Firm
Recovery and Resolution
Directive (BRRD)
Plan to orderly manage the
failure of a firm
All financial institutions
within the scope of the
resolution regime24
To be implemented by
2018. However BoE on
November 2016 set the
Minimum Requirement
for own funds and
Eligible Liabilities (MREL)
to be implemented by
25
2022 .
Targeted outcome
Target
Implementation
Improve the competitiveness of
EU financial markets by creating
a single market for investment
services and activities and by
harmonizing protection for
investors in financial
instruments
Investment services
and trading venues
MiFIR: July 2014, but
technical standards need
to be approved; MiFID II:
by 2018
Client assets protection
regime (CASS)
Protect customers’ money and
assets as fundamental to
consumers’ rights
Banks, brokers, asset
managers, investment
firms
June 2014
Pension reform
Secure an appropriate degree of
protection for consumers,
promote effective competition
in the interest of consumers
Every individual or firm
providing pensions and
retirement services or
information and
consumer
representative bodies
April 2016
Mortgage Market Rule
Allow regulators to deal with
firms that adopt high-risk
strategies and intervene where
business models and strategies
create undue risks for firms,
consumers, and the financial
system generally
Mortgage lenders and
administrators
April 2014
Consumer/investor
protection
Markets in Financial
Instruments Directive II
(MiFID II) and the
Markets in Financial
Instruments Regulation
(MiFIR)
23
By EBA, EIOPA, and ESMA, respectively.
The bank has the responsibility for the resolution of a failing bank, building society, or investment firm and its group
companies. CCPs are also seeking a resolution plan through the 2012 CPMI-IOSCO Principles for Financial Market Infrastructure,
as implemented within the EU by EMIR.
24
25
MREL is a requirement under the EU Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive. The new rules will be introduced in
two phases. Banks will be obliged to comply with interim requirements by 2020. From 1 January 2022, the largest
UK banks will hold sufficient resources to allow the Bank of England to resolve them in an orderly way.
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Temporary Product
Intervention Rule
Market integrity and
derivatives dealing
Ring fencing
Protect consumers in the short
term while allowing either the
FCA or industry to develop a
more permanent solution
FCA’s authorized firms
April 2013
Targeted outcome
Target
Implementation
Separate certain retail
banking activities into
separate entities within
the corporate group.
These ring-fenced bodies
are then prohibited from
carrying out certain
activities, including
dealing in investments as
principal
Institutions that have
more than £25 billion of
“core deposit”—broadly,
those from individuals and
small businesses—on
average, over a period of
three years
January 2019
European Market
Infrastructure Regulation
on derivatives, central
counterparties, and trade
repositories (EMIR)
Reduce counterparty risk
that can become systemic,
implementing new risk
management standards,
including reporting
requirement, and
operational processes, for
all bilateral over-thecounter derivatives
OTC derivatives, central
counterparties, and trade
repositories
April 2014, with full
implementation by 2019
Alternative Investment
Fund Managers Directive
(AIFMD)
Increase transparency by
AIFMs and data sharing
with relevant regulators to
efficiently monitor
financial systems in the
EU; also is intended to
protect investors
Hedge funds and private
equity
June 2013, with full
implementation by 2018
Senior Managers Regime
(SMR) and Senior
Insurance Managers
Regime (SIMR)
Ensure personal
accountability of senior
management in case of
professional misconducts
Banks, building societies,
credit unions, and PRAdesignated investment
firms and insurance
companies
March 2016, to be applied
to “all” registered financial
firms by 2018
Undertakings for
Collective Investment in
Transferable Securities
Directive (UCITS V)
Strengthen the level of
protection for investors in
UCITS and harmonize the
level of supervision by EU
regulators
Mutual funds and
alternative investment
funds
March 2016
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About the Authors
Dr. Claude Lopez is director of research at the Milken Institute, leading the international finance and
macroeconomic team. She investigates the linkages between the financial sector and the real economy,
focusing on systemic risk, capital flows, and investment. She brings expertise and experience on topics
including exchange rates, capital flows, commodities, inflation, and time-series econometrics. Her
research has been published in highly regarded academic journals and policy reports and is regularly
presented at international conferences. Before joining the Institute, Lopez held management roles and
was senior research economist at the Banque de France, the nation’s central bank. She was also a
professor of economics at the University of Cincinnati.
Dr. Elham Saeidinezhad is a research economist in international finance and macroeconomics at the
Milken Institute, with an emphasis on systemic risk, macroprudential policy, and financial stability.
Saeidinezhad is an empirical macroeconomist by training, specializing in fiscal policy, monetary policy,
and productivity growth. She also brings expertise in econometrics and time-series approach. Prior to
joining the Institute, Saeidinezhad was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Financial Stability Research
Group at the Institute for New Economic Thinking. She also held teaching positions at the University of
Sheffield in the UK and at Columbia University in New York.
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