The National Bank of Poland awarded a 2014 Research Grant to TI PhD student Lucyna Gornicka (University of Amsterdam) for her project entitled ‘The structure of the banking sector and the effectiveness of regulatory interventions’. The purpose of the project is assessment of the scale and probability of the emergence of risk to the stability of the financial system, using tools of the financial networks analysis.
NBP Research Grants are awarded each year to researchers not affiliated with the National Bank of Poland and are expected to contribute to the Bank’’s research agenda. The successful projects are presented at the NBP forum and published in the NBP Working Paper Series.
Her PhD project is supervised by professor Sweder van Wijnbergen, TI fellow. Lucyna is an alumna (2012) of TI’s MPhil program.