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Hi! I am an Associate Professor of Finance at the Faculty of Economics and Business (KU Leuven). My research focuses on the interactions between financial markets, technologies and policy. As such, I am interested in (i) how new technologies transform (or not!) financial interactions and (ii) how financial constraints condition the development of new technologies.

tarik.roukny [at] kuleuven [dot] be

Pinned entries

• No Country for Dirty Money? The Economic Footprint of Anti-Money Laundering Standards

  with Cesare Fracassi (UT Austin) and Eric Lee (UT Austin)
  Working Paper - SSRN, 2025

• The Interoperability of Financial Data

  with Elif Cansu (KU Leuven) and Tamas Vadasz (KU Leuven)
  Working Paper - SSRN, 2025

• Asset Overhang and Technological Change

  with Hans Degryse (KU Leuven, CEPR) and Joris Tielens (NBB)
  Forthcoming @ the Review of Financial Studies, 2024
  versions:SSRN · CEPR WP · VoxEU coverage

• Decentralised Finance (DeFi): information frictions and public policies

  Report prepared for the EU Commission - DG Fisma , 2022

• Compressing Over-the-Counter Markets

  with Marco D’Errico (European Systemic Risk Board)
  Operations Research, 2021
  Winner of the Ieke van den Burg Prize (2017) · Best Paper at ECMI Annual Conference (2020)
  Video 1 · Video 2

• The Price of Complexity in Financial Networks

  with Stefano Battiston (UZH), Guido Caldarelli (IMT Lucca), Robet May (Oxford) and Joseph E. Stiglitz (Columbia)
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 2016