Ixart Miquel-Flores is a doctoral candidate in the Finance Department at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. He uses modern applied econometric methods to understand the effects and consequences of monetary policy, financial regulation and new technologies on the banking sector and other macro-financial stability issues. He is focused on producing policy-relevant studies.
Ixart conducts his research in the European Central Bank, where he has acquired experience in different fields such as Monetary Policy, Banking Supervision (Crisis Management, Market Risk and valuation banking inspections as well as Quantitative Risk Analysis in the context of Market Risk Stress Testing for two EBA Stress Test rounds). He has recently joined the banking IT risk inspections team, where he will be working on IT and cyber banking security topics. During his tenure at the European Central Bank he has developed a great interest in banking regulation and supervision, financial stability and financial crises contagion mechanisms as well as the adoption of new technologies (and their regulations) in the financial industry. Mr. Miquel-Flores holds a MSc in Finance in Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. He is a member of the European Banking Institute Young Researchers Group.
You can visit his website at: www.ixartmiquel.com