Prof. Aleksander Berentsen

Aleksander Berentsen is Professor of Economics at the University of Basel. He is currently a research fellow at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and used to be an external advisor for the Swiss National Bank, the European Central Bank and the Bank for International Settlements. He received his PhD from the University of Bern.

Professor Berentsen’s current research focus is DLT, Blockchain and Cryptoassets, and nonconventional monetary policy instruments such as negative interest rates and balance sheet extensions. A recent article studies the benefits of zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) technology for finance. ZKP allows a party to prove that a statement is true without revealing any information. The obvious benefit is privacy. The second benefit is efficiency because ZKP can significantly reduce the cost of verifying the correctness of a statement.

• Financial Markets
  • Central Banks and Monetary Policy
  • Information and Market Efficiency
• Frontier Topics
  • Big Data and Fintech