(primary) Financial Stability, Derivatives Markets, Client Clearing;
(secondary) topics in Public Finance, Industrial Organization, Mircoeconomic Foundation

Christina Brinkmann is a PhD candidate at the Bonn Graduate School of Economics (BGSE). She holds undergraduate degrees in both economics (search and bargaining) and mathematics (stochastic analysis, financial bubbles) from the University of Bonn. During her studies she spent a year at the University of Toronto, and was a fellow of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation. She complemented her theoretical background through research assistance at the Center for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim as well as the European Central Bank (ECB).