Raphael Auer

Head, BIS Innovation Hub Eurosystem Centre at Bank For International Settlements

  • Fellow, International Macroeconomics and Finance
  • Fellow, International Trade and Regional Economics
Website
https://www.bis.org/author/raphael_auer.htm
Twitter
@RaphAuer
Raphael Auer is head of the Eurosystem Centre of the BIS Innovation Hub (located in Frankfurt and Paris). Before taking up his current assignment, he was Principal Economist in the BIS's Innovation and Digital Economy and Monetary Policy units. Before that, he was Deputy Head of the International Trade and Capital Flows unit at Swiss National Bank, Globalization and Governance Fellow at Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and junior visiting fellow at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He holds a PhD in economics from MIT and is president of the Central Bank Research Association. He has published on topics relating to international macroeconomics, exchange rate pass-through, and digital currencies

Publications 

Latest contributions 

3D vizualization of Blockchain blocks and their hexadecimal hash values
VoxEU Column

The economics of distributed ledgers and the limits of decentralised money

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  • Finance and Fintech
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  • Financial Regulation and Banking