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Agnese Leonello is an economist in the Financial Research Division at the European Central Bank. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the European University Institute. Prior to joining the ECB, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Wharton Financial Institutions Center. She conducts her research in the areas of financial intermediation, financial crises, financial regulation and competition policy.
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