prof. dr. Sylvester Eijffinger

About Sylvester Eijffinger

Sylvester Eijffinger is Professor of Financial Economics and Jean Monnet Professor of European Financial and Monetary Integration at Tilburg University. He is also a visiting professor of Economics at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, United States. He has held visiting professorships at the University of Johannesburg, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa, and the University of Munich. Professor Eijffinger has a lively interest in monetary and fiscal policy as well as European economic and financial integration. He was a guest researcher at the Deutsche Bundesbank, the Bank of Japan, the Banque de France, the Bank of England, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, as well as a Special Advisor to the International Monetary Fund and the European Commission.

Professor Eijffinger has extensively published in prestigious economic journals, such as the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Public Economics, Oxford Economic Papers, Open Economies Review, and European Journal of Political Economy. He is an editor of several professional journals and newsletters, as well as program director of the European Summer Institute of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, London. Additionally, he is one of the founders of the recently established European Banking Center in Tilburg. Sylvester Eijffinger has been a member of the Council of Economic Advisors of the Dutch parliament for three years and is still a member of the Panel of Monetary Experts of the European Parliament for the monetary dialogue with the European Central Bank. Finally, he was the only academic member of the Advisory Committee on the Future of Banks (Maas Committee), whose recommendations will be transformed into a Banking Code.