Marius Jurgilas Home Page

 Office address:
Bank of England
Threadneedle Street, London
EC2R 8AH

Completed papers:

• Monetary Policy Under a Currency Board
   

• Job market paper:
  Interbank Markets Under Currency Boards
   

• Financial Dollarization: The Role of Banks and Interest Rates
   

• Corruption and Growth Under Weak Identification
   

• Interbank Market Under the Currency Board: Case of Lithuania

In progress:

• Institutional Structure of the Interbank Market Under a Currency Board

• Commercial Bank Reserve Management in the Case of a Currency Board

• Bank Regulation in Practice and in Theory

• Internal Ratings-Based Approach for Credit Risk in Transition Economies

• Human Capital and Educational Corruption
  (with Philip Shaw)

My research interests:

• Macroeconomics

• Monetary Economics

• Banking Regulation

• Transition Economies

Publications:

• “Interbank Market Under the Currency Board: Case of Lithuania” FindEcon Monograph Series: Advances in Financial Market Analysis, Volume 1, 2005

Presentations:

• Money Macro and Finance Research Group 40th Annual Conference, 10 - 12 September 2008 Birkbeck, University of London, London, UK
   

• European meeting of the European Economic Association and the Econometric Society (EEA-ESEM) in Milan, Italy, 27 – 31 August 2008
   

• 8th Annual Missouri Economics Conference, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and University of Missouri, March 28-29, 2008, Columbia, USA
   

• Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA), Latin American Meeting of the Econometric Society (LAMES) 2007 Parallel Meetings, 4 - 6 October 2007, Bogotá, Colombia
   

• 13th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance, June 14 - 16, 2007, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
   

• Seminar presentations at University of Connecticut (USA), Cardiff University (UK), CERGE-IE (Czech Republic), Bundesbank (Germany), Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (Sweden), SSE Riga (Latvia), Elon University (USA), February, 2007; Bank of England January 2008
   

• 11th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance, June 23-25, 2005, Washington, D.C.
   

• 4th Annual International Conference “Forecasting Financial Markets and Economic Decision-making”, May 12-14, 2005, Lodz, Poland

Research experience:

• Bank of England, London, United Kingdom
  Economist, Financial Resilience Division
  (Summer 2008 - current)

• Elon University, NC, USA
  Assistant Professor, Economics Department, Martha and Spencer Love School of Business
  (Fall 2007-Spring 2008)

• European Central Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
  Summer intern; Project: Determinants of foreign currency lending
  (Summer 2006)

• Center for Real Estate and Urban Economic Studies, School of Business Administration, University of Connecticut
  Research assistant; Project: Shared appreciation mortgages
  (Summer 2004)

• Department of Economics, University of Connecticut
  Teaching/research assistant
  (2001-current)

• Eurofaculty, Vilnius University, Lithuania
  Researcher; Projects: Stock market valuation of Lithuanian firms, Private education in Lithuania
  (1999-2000)

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