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Overview

Martin Cihak is affiliated with the International Monetary Fund in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within the social sciences, particularly focusing on economics, econometrics, and finance. The scholar has contributed to topics that include microfinance and financial inclusion, financial literacy, pension and retirement analysis, housing finance and neoliberalism, culture, economy and development studies, intergenerational and educational inequality studies, as well as innovations in educational methods.

Their notable recent publications include:

  • Financial inclusion and inequality: A cross-country analysis, 2020, Journal of International Trade & Economic Development
  • Race in Economics, 2020, Finance & Development

Co-authorship patterns show frequent collaborations with Ratna Sahay, Armand Fouejieu, Shiyuan Chen, and Montfort Mlachila.

Publication venues where Martin Cihak's work has appeared include:

  • Journal of International Trade & Economic Development
  • Finance & Development

In addition to journal articles, Martin Cihak has contributed to academic books published through the International Monetary Fund. One book authored is Finance and Inequality (2020), which has also received citations.

The main fields of study associated with their research are:

  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance
  • Social Sciences

Within those fields, subfields include:

  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Accounting
  • Finance
  • Demography
  • Sociology and Political Science

Best Publications

  • Benchmarking Financial Systems around the World

    Martin Cihak;Asli Demirguc-Kunt;Erik Feyen;Ross Levine;Ross Levine

  • Islamic Banks and Financial Stability: An Empirical Analysis

    Martin Čihák;Heiko Hesse

  • Rethinking Financial Deepening:Stability and Growth in Emerging Markets

    Ratna Sahay;Martin Cihak;Papa N'Diaye;Adolfo Barajas

  • Are Competitive Banking Systems More Stable

    Klaus Schaeck;Martin Cihak;Simon Wolfe

  • Financial Development in 205 Economies, 1960 to 2010

    Martin Cihak;Asli Demirguc-Kunt;Erik Feyen;Ross Levine

  • Competition, efficiency, and stability in banking

    Klaus Schaeck;Martin Cihák

  • Cooperative Banks and Financial Stability

    Martin Cihak;Heiko Hesse

  • Banking Competition and Capital Ratios

    Klaus Schaeck;Martin Cihák

  • Cooperative Banks and Financial Stability

    Martin Cihak;Heiko Hesse

  • Financial Inclusion : Can it Meet Multiple Macroeconomic Goals?

    Ratna Sahay;Martin Cihak;Papa M N'Diaye;Adolfo Barajas

  • How does competition affect efficiency and soundness in banking? New empirical evidence

    Klaus Schaeck;Martin Čihák

  • Financial Development in 205 Economies, 1960 to 2010

    Martin Čihák;Asli Demirgüč-Kunt;Erik Feyen;Ross Levine;Ross Levine

  • Cooperative Banks and Financial Stability

    Heiko Hesse;Martin Čihák;Martin Čihák

  • Bank regulation and supervision around the world : a crisis update

    Martin Cihak;Martin Cihak;Asli Demirguc-Kunt;Maria Soledad Martinez Peria;Amin Mohseni-Cheraghlou;Amin Mohseni-Cheraghlou

  • Determinants of Bank Distress in Europe: Evidence from a New Data Set

    Tigran Poghosyan;Martin Čihak

  • Islamic Banks and Financial Stability: An Empirical Analysis

    Martin Čihák;Heiko Hesse

  • Who disciplines bank managers

    Klaus Schaeck;Martin Cihak;Andrea Maechler;Stephanie Stolz

  • Introduction to Applied Stress Testing

    Martin Cihak

  • Are More Competitive Banking Systems More Stable

    Simon Wolfe;Klaus Schaeck;Martin Čihák

  • The Nexus of financial inclusion and financial stability : a study of trade-offs and synergies

    Martin Cihak;Davide Salvatore Mare;Martin Melecky

  • Competition, Efficiency, and Soundness in Banking : An Industrial Organization Perspective

    Klaus Schaeck;Martin Cihak

  • Distress in European Banks: An Analysis Based on a New Dataset

    Tigran Poghosyan;Martin Čihák

  • Who Disciplines Bank Managers

    Martin Čihák;Andrea Michaela Maechler;Klaus Schaeck;Stéphanie Marie Stolz;Stéphanie Marie Stolz

  • Competition, Efficiency, and Stability in Banking

    Klaus Schaeck;Martin Čihák

Frequent Co-Authors

Ratna Sahay
Ratna Sahay International Monetary Fund
Ross Levine
Ross Levine Hoover Institution
Andrea Filippo Presbitero
Andrea Filippo Presbitero International Monetary Fund
Maria Soledad Martinez Peria
Maria Soledad Martinez Peria International Monetary Fund
Laurent Weill
Laurent Weill EM Strasbourg Business School

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