Placement Timotej Homar: European Central Bank
PhD student Timotej Homar has accepted a new position in the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) Risk Analysis Division of the European Central Bank. He will start on September 1st as a supervision analyst.
Timotej is a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam. He expects to complete his dissertation on ‘Intervention in Systemic Banking Crises’ in August 2015. His work is supervised by TI fellows Boot and van Wijnbergen (both UvA). Timotej’s academic interests are in banking and corporate finance. He was a trainee at the ECB’s Directorate General Macro-Prudential Policy and Financial Stability, from September 2014 to March 2015. Timotej is an alumnus (2012) of the TI MPhil program.
Risk Analysis Division of the ECB
The Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) Risk Analysis Division has the overall task of monitoring changes in the overall risk environment of the SSM, conducting further in-depth risk analysis activities that cover a broad range of risk categories and topics, raising issues as necessary and supporting the Joint Supervisory Teams (JSTs) in their supervisory activities. The Division conducts regular in-depth risk analysis and supports other units by providing up-to-date information on current risks and vulnerabilities affecting the SSM. It identifies trends, developments and emerging risks affecting multiple banks on a timely basis for further supervisory review. It conducts regular peer reviews of credit institutions’ performance and risk profiles, including horizontal analysis of individual credit institutions’ exposure to a certain type of risk or event, as well as broader micro-prudential analysis and research on the banking sector. The Division supports the JSTs as needed in their ad hoc analyses and provides expert support and resources for analytical work, cooperating with equivalent experts and functions within the NCAs to enable knowledge sharing and the development of best practices.