Stephan Barisitz

Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe Section

Research interests

  • banking and financial markets
  • monetary policy
  • Russia, Ukraine and other former Soviet republics: macrostructural monitoring and analysis
  • China’s New Silk Road, Central Asian economic history

Selected publications

Barisitz, S. and P. Deswel (2022). The Russian banking sector and its European banks – against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine and sanctions, Focus on European Economic Integration (FEEI), Q4/22, OeNB.

Barisitz, S. (2022). The Belarusian banking sector (2016–2021): from timid recovery to renewed crisis? FEEI, Q1/22, OeNB.

Barisitz, S. and P. Deswel (2022). European banks in Russia: developments and perspectives from 2017 through the COVID-19 pandemic (2020/2021), FEEI, Q3/21, OeNB.

Barisitz, S. and A. Hildebrandt (2020). Macroprudential policy in the Western Balkans: the last five years and COVID-19 crisis response, Focus on European Economic Integration (FEEI) Q4/20, OeNB.

Barisitz, S. (2020). China’s New Silk Road: a stocktaking update and economic review (2017–19), FEEI, Q1/20, OeNB.

Barisitz, S. (2020). New Silk Road – A geo-economic assessment with a focus on the European region, in: Pechlaner, H., G. Erschbamer, M. Thees, M. Gruber (eds.): China and the New Silk Road – challenges and impacts on the regional and local level, Springer Nature.

Barisitz, S. (2019). Non-performing loans in CESEE – a brief update on their definitions and recent developments, FEEI, Q2/19, OeNB.

Barisitz, S. and M. Lahnsteiner (2017). Ukraine’s banking sector: still very weak, but some signs of improvement, FSR 33, OeNB.

Barisitz, S. (2017). Central Asia and the Silk Road – Economic Rise and Decline over Several Millennia (monograph), Studies in Economic History, Springer International Publishing, Berlin, Heidelberg.

Barisitz, S. and A. Breitenfellner (2017). How do resource-driven economies cope with the oil price slump? A comparative survey of ten major oil-exporting countries, FEEI Q1/17, OeNB.