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Maylis AVARO
PhD Graduate @Institute of International and Development Studies
​​SNSF Postdoctoral fellow @OxfordESH
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I am Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Postdoctoral Fellow at the History Faculty of the University of Oxford and a Fellow at St Hilda's College.

My research interests are the rise and decline of international currencies and central banking history. The first part of my current work focuses on the decline of sterling after WWII. The second part investigates banking crisis and central banking policies in France and Switzerland in the 19th and 20th century.

I hold a PhD in International Economics and History from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva.

RESEARCH FIELDS

Financial history | Economic history | Banking | Monetary economics

KEYWORDS

International currencies | foreign exchange reserves | central banking | lender of last resort

most RECENT publications

  • Zombie International Currency: The Pound Sterling 1945-1973, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies,  International Economics Department, 2020.
  • At Your Service! Liquidity Provision and Risk Management in 19th Century France, M Avaro, V Bignon, London, Centre for Economic Policy Research, 2019.
  • How the Bank of France increased liquidity at no fiscal risk in the 1800’s, V Bignon, M Avaro, LSE Business Review, 2017.
  • Le système monétaire international face au bitcoin/Birch David, 2017, Before Babylon, Beyond Bitcoin: From Money That We Understand to Money That Understands Us, Londres, London Publishing Partnership./Halaburda Hanna et Halaburda HMiklos Sarvary, 2016, Beyond Bitcoin. The Economics of Digital Currencies, New York, Palgrave Macmillan./Nishibe Makoto, 2016, The Enigma of Money. Gold, Central Banknotes, and Bitcoin, New York, Springer. M Avaro - Études internationales, 2017.
  • Banking union: a solution to the euro zone crisis?, M Avaro, H Sterdyniak, Revue de l'OFCE, 193-241, 2014.

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