Since 2019, Björn Richter has been an assistant professor of finance at Pompeu Fabra University and an affiliated professor at the Barcelona School of Economics. Previously, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Macrohistory Lab at the University of Bonn. He obtained his PhD from Goethe University Frankfurt.

2015 - PhD in Economics, Goethe University Frankfurt

2009 - Master in Business Administration, HAW Hamburg

2009 - BSc in Business Administration, HAW Hamburg 

His main research interests are in financial economics, with an emphasis on banking, financial crises, and international finance.

• Jordà, Òscar, Richter, Björn, Schularick, Moritz, Taylor, Alan M. (2021). Bank capital redux: Solvency, liquidity, and crisis. Review of Economic Studies, 88 (1), 260-286.
• Richter, Björn, Schularick, Moritz, Wachtel, Paul (2021). When to lean against the wind. Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 53 (1), 5-39.
• Richter, Björn, Schularick, Moritz, Shim, Ilhyock (2019). The costs of macroprudential policy. Journal Of International Economics, 118, 263-282.