Dr. Valeriya Dinger

Institute for International Economics
University of Bonn

Lennéstrasse 37
53113 Bonn
Germany

Phone: +49 (0)228 73-4029
Fax: +49 (0)228 73-7953

Email: valeriya.dingeruni-bonn.de

Consultation hours upon arrangement via email.

Research

• Banking, Financial System Development, Economics of Transition

• "Does Interbank Borrowing Reduce Bank Risk?" (with Jürgen von Hagen), Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2009, Vol. 41 (2-3): 491-506 (pdf)
• "Do Foreign-owned Banks Affect Banking System Liquidity Risk?", forthcoming, Journal of Comparative Economics
• "Bank Mergers and the Dynamics of Deposit Interest Rates" (with Ben R. Craig), forthcoming, Journal of Financial Services Research (pdf)    [auxiliary results (zip)]
• "How Small are the Banking Sectors in Central and Eastern European Countries Really?" (with Jürgen von Hagen), forthcoming, Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance
• "Risk Effects of Bank Specialization in Central and Eastern European Countries" (with Jürgen von Hagen), European Review of Finance and Economics, 2004, Vol 3(3)

• "Do Investment Banking Activities Increase the Risk of US Banks?" (with Lin Lin)
• "The Competitive Advantage of Incumbents: Evidence from newly liberalized banking industries" (with Jürgen von Hagen)
• "Deposit Market Competition, Costs of Funding and Bank Risk" (with Ben R. Craig)
• "The Duration of Retail Interest Rate Spells" (with Ben R. Craig)

Professional Experience

• Jul 2006 - Sep 2006   Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Visiting Researcher
• Since April 2006  Institute for International Economics, University of Bonn, Assistant Professor
• Sep 2004 - Mar 2006   Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI), University of Bonn, Senior Research Fellow
• Apr 2001 - Aug 2004   Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI), University of Bonn, Research Fellow
• Mar 2003 - Sep 2003   China Center for Economic Research, Peking University, Beijing (China), Visiting Researcher

Education

• Apr 2001 - Aug 2004   Ph. D. in Economics, University of Bonn
• Oct 1998 - Feb 2000   Master of Economics, University of Sofia, Bulgaria
• Sep 1994 - Sep 1998   Bachelor of Economics, Varna University of Economics, Bulgaria