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Joost Bats
Economist at the Dutch Central Bank,
Joost Bats is an economist at the Dutch Central Bank and a PhD researcher at the University of Amsterdam. He is specialized in monetary economics and financial structure.
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Boosting the resilience of Europe’s financial system in the coronavirus crisis
Europe has a heavily bank-based financial structure, but bank-based financial structures are associated with higher systemic risk than market-based fi