Isabel Schnabel

Isabel Schnabel
Born	(1971-08-09) 9 August 1971
Nationality	German
Academic career
Institution	University of Bonn
Field	Financial economics
Alma mater	University of Mannheim
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Isabel Schnabel (née Gödde, born 9 August 1971 in Dortmund) is a German economist. She became professor of financial economics at the University of Bonn in 2015 and a member of the German Council of Economic Experts in 2014. She worked previously at the University of Mainz from 2007 to 2015.

Career

Schnabel completed her training as a bank clerk at Deutsche Bank in Dortmund in 1992 and earned a diplom and a doctorate from the University of Mannheim in 1998 and 2003, respectively. In Mannheim, she worked as student research assistant to Axel Börsch-Supan. During that time, she also completed internships with Deutsche Bank in Saint Petersburg and Frankfurt. Her dissertation, Macroeconomic Risks and Financial Crises – A Historical Perspective, was written under supervision of Martin Hellwig.

She was a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the London School of Economics, and Harvard University. She collaborated with Hyun-Song Shin comparing the Bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in 2008 with the bankruptcy of Leendert Pieter de Neufville in 1763. She is Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Fellow of the CESifo Network, and Research Affiliate at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods (MPI) in Bonn.

Other activities

Regulatory agencies

• Deutsche Bundesbank, Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Research Data and Service Centre (RDSC) (since 2016)
• European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB), Member of the Advisory Scientific Committee (since 2015)
• Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin), Chairman of the Advisory Board (Member since 2008) and Member of the Administrative Council (since 2013)

Research organizations

• Verein für Socialpolitik, Member of the Executive Board (since 2015)
• Center for European Economic Research (ZEW), Member of the Scientific Advisory Board (since 2012)
• European Historical Economics Society, Member of the Board of Trustees (2005-2009)

Editorial boards

• Review of Economics, Member of the Board of Associate Editors (since 2012)
• Financial History Review, Member of the Editorial Advisory Board (since 2009)
• Economics of Transition, Co-Editor (2008-2014)

Selected publications

• Schäfer, Alexander; Schnabel, Isabel; Weder di Mauro, Beatrice (2016). "Financial Sector Reform after the Subprime Crisis: Has Anything Happened?". Review of Finance. 20 (1): 77–125. doi:10.1093/rof/rfu055. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |author2mask= ignored (|author-mask2= suggested) (help)
• Gropp, Reint; Hakenes, Hendrik; Schnabel, Isabel (2011). "Competition, Risk-shifting, and Public Bail-out Policies". Rev. Financ. Stud. 24 (6): 2084–2120. doi:10.1093/rfs/hhq114. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |author3mask= ignored (|author-mask3= suggested) (help)
• Dell'Ariccia, Giovanni; Schnabel, Isabel; Zettelmeyer, Jeromin (2006). "How Do Official Bailouts Affect the Risk of Investing in Emerging Markets?". Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. 38 (7): 1689–1714. JSTOR 3838962. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |author2mask= ignored (|author-mask2= suggested) (help)
• Schnabel, Isabel (2004). "The German Twin Crisis of 1931". Journal of Economic History. 64 (3): 822–871. doi:10.1017/S0022050704002980. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
• Schnabel, Isabel; Shin, Hyun Song (2004). "Liquidity and Contagion: The Crisis of 1763". Journal of the European Economic Association. 2 (6): 929–968. doi:10.1162/1542476042813887. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)

External links

• Website at the University of Bonn