Lena Tonzer

Short Biography

Lena Tonzer is Assistant Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam since September 2021 and a member of the Department of Financial Markets at IWH since May 2014. Previously, she has been Assistant Professor at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. Her research focuses on banking and sovereign debt crises, integration of financial markets, and banking regulation. Lena Tonzer studied International Economics at the University of Tübingen, and she received her PhD from the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy.

Selected publications

• Drivers of Systemic Risk: Do National and European Perspectives Differ? (with Claudia M. Buch and Thomas Krause). Journal of International Money and Finance 91: 160-176 (2019).
• Delay Determinants of European Banking Union Implementation (with Michael Koetter and Thomas Krause). European Journal of Political Economy (in press).
• Central Bank Transparency and Cross-border Banking (with Stefan Eichler and Helge Littke). Journal of International Money and Finance 74: 1-30 (2017).