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Prof. Dr. Valeriya Dinger

Contact Information

University of Osnabrück                                                                        
Department of Economics
Rolandstr. 8
49069 Osnabrueck, Germany
Office: +49 541 9693398
Fax: +49 228 9692769
E-mail: vdinger@uni-osnabrueck.de 

Current Employment 

2011- Professor of Economics (Chair of Macroeconomics), University of Osnabrück

2015- Member of the DFG-Priority Program “Financial Market Imperfections and Macroeconomic Performance”

Fields of specialization 

Financial frictions in macroeconomics, banking and Bank regulation, financial market dynamics

Previous positions

February-July 2011 Visiting Professor of Finance, University of Mannheim

April-September 2010 Acting Professor in Finance, University of Bonn

2005-2011 Assistant Professor, University of Bonn 

Education

2004 PhD, University of Bonn. Thesis: “Three Essays on Banking in Central and Eastern Europe” (PhD Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Jürgen von Hagen and Prof. Dr. Erik Theissen)

2000 Master of Economics, University of Sofia

Refereed publication

“Do Banks Issue Equity When They Are Poorly Capitalized” (with Francesco Vallascas), forthcoming, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis

“The Tragedy of Commons and Inflation Bias in the Euro Area” (with Sven Steinkamp and Frank Westermann), Open Economies Review 2014, Vol 25 (1): 71-91

“Bank Mergers and Deposit Rate Rigidity”, forthcoming, Journal of Financial Services Research

“The Duration of Bank Retail Interest Rates” (with Ben R. Craig), International Journal of the Economics of Business 2014, Vol 21 (2): 191-207

“Deposit Market Competition, Wholesale Funding, and Bank Risk” (with Ben R. Craig), Journal of Banking and Finance 2013, Vol 37 (9): 3295-3732

“The Competitive Advantage of Incumbents: Evidence from Newly Liberalized Banking Industries” (with Jürgen von Hagen), Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 2011, Vol 167 (4): 578-607

“Does Interbank Borrowing Reduce Bank Risk?” (with Jürgen von Hagen), Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 2009, Vol. 41 (2-3): 491-506

“Bank Mergers and the Dynamics of Deposit Interest Rates” (with Ben R. Craig), Journal of Financial Services Research 2009, Vol. 36 (2-3): 111-133

“Do Foreign-owned Banks Affect Banking System Liquidity Risk?”, Journal of Comparative Economics 2009, Vol. 37 (4): 647-657

“How Small Are the Banking Sectors in Central and Eastern European Countries Really?” (with Jürgen von Hagen), Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance 2009, Vol. 17 (2): 96-118

“Risk Effects of Bank Specialization in Central and Eastern European Countries” (with Jürgen von Hagen), European Review of Finance and Economics 2004, Vol 3(3) 

Book Chapters

“Bank Mergers and the Dynamics of Deposit Rates” (with Ben R. Craig) in Evanoff D. (ed.), Proceedings of the 44th Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Conference on Bank Structure and Competition

Conference Presentations

2015 American Social Science Associations (ASSA) Annual Meetings (Ibefa) in Boston

2014 Central Bank of Finland, Central Bank of Ireland, Norges Bank, BundesbankDIW Conference “Achieving Sustainable Financial Stability”, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Finanzwirtschaft Annual Meetings, University of Bonn, IWH Halle

2013 49th Bank Structure Conference, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago; Financial Intermediation Research Society (FIRS), Dubrovnik; Konstanz Seminar on Monetary Theory and Monetary Policy; 2nd Workshop on Financial Intermediation (University of Mainz); Leeds University Business School

2012: Far-Eastern Meeting of the Econometric Society, Delhi; Mid-West Macroeconomics Meeting, Boulder; German Economic Association Annual Meeting

2011: Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, European Business School

2010: Federal Reserve Bank of New York “Money and Payments Workshop”; German Finance Association Annual Meeting, Hamburg; 2nd Financial Stability Conference, Tilburg; VHB Annual Meeting, Bremen; DIME Conference on Financial Constraints, Nizza; University of Münster; ASSA (North American Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society), Atlanta

2009: Ces-Ifo Conference on Banking and Institutions, Munich; German Finance Association Annual Meeting; Frankfurt; Federal Reserve Bank of Boston; Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland; Financial Intermediation Research Society Meeting, Prague; European Banking Symposium, Maastricht

2008: 44th Bank Structure Conference, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago; De Nederlandsche Bank Annual Research Conference, Amsterdam; German Economic Association Annual Meeting, Graz; Finlawmetrics Workshop, Milan

2007: 20th Australasian Banking and Finance Conference, Sydney; FDIC-Chicago Fed Conference on Mergers and Acquisitions of Financial Institutions, Washington DC; European Economic Association Annual Meeting, Budapest; European Meeting of the Econometric Society, Budapest; European Banking Symposium, Maastricht

2006: German Economic Association Annual Meeting, Bayreuth; Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland; University of Augsburg Research Seminar;

2005: CFS-ECB Network Conference on "Capital Markets and Financial Integration in Europe", Wien; German Economic Association Annual Meeting, Bonn 4

2004: German Economic Association Annual Meeting, Dresden; Far Eastern Meeting of the Econometric Society, Seoul; Deutsche Bundesbank Research Seminar; Peking University Research Seminar; XII Tor Vergata Conference, Rom

Referee work

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Review of Finance, European Economic Review, Journal of Industrial Economics, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Economic Surveys, Journal of Financial Stability, Journal of Financial Services Research, Economics of Transition