Banking and financial intermediation, monetary policy, corporate finance

Farzad Saidi is a Professor of Financial Economics at the University of Bonn. He holds an MSc in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics from the London School of Economics and finished his PhD in Economics at New York University in 2013. Before his appointment in Bonn, he was an Assistant Professor of Finance at Boston University, Stockholm School of Economics, and the University of Cambridge.

Published papers

• Altruism, Social Interactions, and the Course of a Pandemic

  Alfaro, L., Faia, E., Lamersdorf, N., & Saidi, F. (2024). Altruism, social interactions, and the course of a pandemic. European Economic Review.

• Health Externalities and Policy: The Role of Social Preferences

  Alfaro, L., Faia, E., Lamersdorf, N., & Saidi, F. (2022). Health Externalities and Policy: The Role of Social Preferences. Management Science.

• Banks and Negative Interest Rates

  Heider, F., Saidi, F., & Schepens, G. (2021) Banks and Negative Interest Rates. Annual Review of Financial Economics.

• Regulatory Forbearance in the U.S. Insurance Industry: The Effects of Removing Capital Requirements for an Asset Class

  Becker, B., Opp, M. M., & Saidi, F. (2021) Regulatory Forbearance in the U.S. InsuranceIndustry: The Effects of Removing Capital Requirements for an Asset Class. The Review of Financial Studies.

• Bank Concentration and Product Market Competition

  Saidi, F., Streitz, D. (2021). Bank Concentration and Product Market Competition, The Review of Financial Studies.

Discussion papers

• Empirical Monetary-Fiscal Equivalence

• Assortative Matching, Interbank Markets, and Monetary Policy

• Short-Time Work Extensions

• Insurers Monitor Shocks to Collateral: Micro Evidence from Mortgage-backed Securities

• Two Centuries of Systemic Bank Runs

• Less Bank Regulation, More Non-Bank Lending

• Army of Mortgagors: Long-Run Evidence on Credit Externalities and the Housing Market

• Mixing QE and Interest Rate Policies at the Effective Lower Bound: Micro Evidence from the Euro Area

• Information Transmission between Banks and the Market for Corporate Control

• Tracing Banks’ Credit Allocation to their Funding Costs

• The Augmented Bank Balance-Sheet Channel of Monetary Policy

• Altruism, Social Interactions, and the Course of a Pandemic

• Health Externalities and Policy: The Role of Social Preferences

• The Bank Liquidity Channel of Financial (In)stability

• Credit Supply, Firms, and Earnings Inequality