patrick van roy

PATRICK VAN ROY
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Telephone:
Fax:
Email:
Department of Financial Stability
National Bank of Belgium
Boulevard de Berlaimont 14
1000 Brussels
Belgium
+ 32 2 221 53 33
+ 32 2 221 31 04
patrick.vanroy[at]nbb.be
Home address:
Mobile:
Rue du nid 30
1050 Brussels
Belgium
+ 32 499 23 11 29
Date of birth:
Nationality:
April 23, 1978
Belgian
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
OUTSIDE UNIVERSITY
09/2005 – present
National Bank of Belgium
Advisor in the Department of Financial Stability
09/2003 – 08/2005 European Commission
Instructor in micro- and macro- economics for Directorate General
EuropeAid
11/2004 – 02/2005 National Bank of Belgium
Intern in the Department of Financial Stability (graduate research program)
04/2004 – 06/2004 European Central Bank
Intern in Directorate General Research (graduate research program)
WITHIN UNIVERSITY
09/2005 – present
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Assistant for the course Théorie Monétaire I (Prof. Peter Praet), second-year
undergraduate course
09/1998 – 06/2000 Université Libre de Bruxelles
Assistant for the course Economie Politique (Prof. Gérard Roland), first-year
undergraduate course
REPRESENTING THE NATIONAL BANK OF BELGIUM
I have been selected to represent the National Bank of Belgium on a number of occasions:
03/2008 – present
European Central Bank
Member of the working group on banking developments
08/2006 – present Bank for International Settlements
Member of the research task force on vendor models
02/2006 – 06/2006 Committee of European Banking Supervisors
Member of the working group on external credit assessment institutions
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EDUCATION
10/2001 – 05/2006 ECARES, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Ph.D. in Economics
Thesis title: "Essays on the Economics of Banking and the Prudential
Regulation of Banks" (advisor: Prof. Mathias Dewatripont)
10/2000 – 09/2001 University of Cambridge
M.Phil. in Economics
10/1996 – 09/2000 Université Libre de Bruxelles
B.A. in Economics, summa cum laude
Exchange student at Tilburg University for one semester (Erasmus
program)
SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
10/2001 – 08/2005 Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique
Four-year scholarship for writing my Ph.D. thesis
10/2000 – 09/2001 Wiener-Anspach foundation
One-year scholarship for studying at Cambridge
09/2000
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Awarded medal of the university for outstanding academic achievement
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
"Vocabulaire de l’économie en Belgique", 2007. Editions Couleur livres, 166 pages (with H.
Broquet). Web page: http://vocabulaire.economie.googlepages.com/
JOURNAL AND REVIEW ARTICLES
"Réglementation prudentielle des banques et notations non sollicitées", 2008. Reflets et
perspectives de la vie économique, Vol.47 (3), pp. 79-86.
"Capital requirements and bank behaviour in the early 1990s: cross-country evidence", 2008.
International Journal of Central Banking, Vol.4 (3), pp. 29-60.
"Transparency in banking", 2008. Financial Stability Review, National Bank of Belgium, pp. 89103.
"A survey of failure prediction models offered by vendors with an application to Belgian data",
2007. Financial Stability Review, National Bank of Belgium, pp. 105-114 (with J. Mitchell).
WORKING PAPERS
"Failure prediction models: performance, disagreements and internal ratings systems", 2007.
Working paper # 123, National Bank of Belgium (with J. Mitchell). Submitted for publication.
"Is there a difference between solicited and unsolicited bank ratings and if so, why?", 2006.
Working paper # 79, National Bank of Belgium. Submitted for publication.
"Credit ratings and the standardised approach to credit risk in Basel II", 2005. Working paper
# 517, European Central Bank.
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PUBLICATIONS CTD.
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
"Transparence des banques" (Article related to my research on transparency in banking). La
Libre Belgique, 8 November 2008.
"PME et accord de Bâle II" (Article related to my research on failure prediction models). La Libre
Belgique, 10 November 2007.
"Ratings et réglementation bancaire" (Article related to my research on credit rating agencies). La
Libre Belgique, 14 February 2004.
REFEREE
Journal of International Money and Finance, National Bank of Belgium working paper series
CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS (AS A SPEAKER)
09/2005 – present
06/2008
05/2007
07/2004
02/2004
09/2003
05/2003
Several presentations at the Commission Bancaire, Financière et des
Assurances (CBFA), National Bank of Belgium, European Central Bank,
Bank of England, Norges Bank, Banco de España and Bank for International
Settlements as a representative of the National Bank of Belgium
Annual meeting of the European Financial Management Association
(Athens, Greece)
Small business banking and financing: a global perspective (Cagliari, Italy)
Annual meeting of the European Financial Management Association (Basel,
Switzerland)
Workshop on Banking Risks in International Markets (Kiel, Germany)
4th Conference of the International Economic and Finance Society – UK
chapter (City University, UK)
8th Belgian Financial Research Forum (Limburgs Universitair Centrum,
Belgium)
OTHER SKILLS
Languages
French: mother tongue
English: fluent. IELTS examination passed in February 2000 (overall band:
7.5)
Dutch: good level. Dutch proficiency examination (Staatsexamen
Nederlands als tweede taal) passed in July 1999
Computing
Working knowledge of Microsoft Office, statistics and econometrics
packages (Matlab, E-Views, Limdep, Stata, SAS)
(Last update: February 2009)
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