Special prizes from the Deutsche Bundesbank to Bayreuth's young talent

The Deutsche Bundesbank's special prize is awarded by the Deutsche Bundesbank's head office in Bavaria for outstanding theses and dissertations at selected Bavarian universities in the Deutsche Bundesbank's fields of work.

Miriam Knauer wrote her bachelor's thesis on the "Consequences of increased transparency requirements for credit institutions using the example of AnaCredit" during her bachelor's degree in business administration at the University of Bayreuth. Under the Analytical Credit Dataset (AnaCredit) regulations, credit institutions are required to comply with extensive data reporting at the individual loan level. Miriam Knauer, whose work was supervised by Prof. Dr. Klaus Schäfer, Chair of Business Administration I - Finance and Banking at the Faculty of Law and Economics, is currently studying for a Master's degree in Business Administration in Bayreuth and sees the award as further motivation to continue dealing with current issues of regulation and supervision of credit institutions in the future.

Dr. Jonathan Schiller completed his doctorate at the Chair of Economics I - Money and International Economics under Prof. Dr. Bernhard Herz with several theses. In his "Essays on Monetary Policy", he focuses on digital central bank money. He examines possible implications for the financial sector and monetary policy and is able to show that a central bank can ensure that digital central bank money does not impair the financial sector by designing digital money appropriately.

The Deutsche Bundesbank's special prize is awarded by the Deutsche Bundesbank's head office in Bavaria for outstanding theses and, for the first time in 2022, also for dissertations at selected Bavarian universities in the fields of monetary policy and banking regulation as well as cash and non-cash payments and financial stability. The award took place shortly before Christmas at the Deutsche Bundesbank's premises in Munich and was presented by Reinhold Vollbracht, President of the Head Office in Bavaria. After the award ceremony, the participants had the opportunity to discuss current monetary policy issues and future joint cooperation in detail.