Stefan Gerlach is Chief Economist at BSI Bank in Zurich and Former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland. He has also served as Executive Director and Chief Economist of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and as Secretary to the Committee on the Global Financial System at the BIS.
After having endured the collapse of its housing market less than a decade ago, Ireland has lately been experiencing a blistering recovery in prices, which already have risen in Dublin by some 50% fro… read more
Eighty-five years ago this month, Credit-Anstalt, by far the largest bank in Austria, collapsed. The parallels to the 2008 collapse of the US investment bank Lehman Brothers are strong – and crucial f… read more
