Matthias Thiemann is an Assistant Professor of European Public Policy. In his work, he studies pre-and post-crisis dynamics of financial regulation in Europe as well as the rising importance of national development banks. He focuses on the one hand on the detrimental effects of national regulatory competition within European financial markets and on the other on the possibility of a positive interaction effect between national development banks, the EIB and private finance to channel abundant financial liquidity into the “real economy”.