Ralph De Haas

EBRD

 

Ralph De Haas is Deputy Director of Research at the EBRD. His main research interests include international banking, microfinance, and development economics. He is currently working on randomised field experiments measuring the impact of microfinance on poverty alleviation in Mongolia, Morocco, and Bosnia. Other research projects deal with internal capital markets in multinational banks, the effects of the global credit crunch on international bank lending, and the impact of foreign bank entry on small business finance.

He has published or has papers forthcoming in the Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Intermediation, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, Economic Policy, Journal of Banking & Finance, Economics of Transition, and Financial Markets, Institutions and Instruments, among other journals.

Ralph holds a PhD in Economics from Utrecht University in the Netherlands.