Sebastian de-Ramon

​Technical Specialist - Policy Strategy & Implementation division

Biography

Sebastian de-Ramon is a Senior Researcher in the Bank of England's Prudential Policy Directorate. His research focuses on financial stability, prudential regulation and macro-financial modelling. He has published extensively on banking competition, bank capital requirements, regulatory policy and the behaviour of financial institutions.
 
Prior to joining the Bank of England, Sebastian worked on macroeconomic forecasting, policy modelling and financial regulation in both the public and private sectors. He contributed to the Basel Committee's impact assessments of the Basel III reforms and co-authored the FSA's framework for assessing the macroeconomic effects of prudential policy.
His current research examines the interactions between banks, households, pension funds and insurance companies within stock-flow consistent and other macro-financial models. This work aims to improve understanding of household saving, long-term finance and the role of non-bank financial institutions in financial stability.

Sebastian's selected academic publications

Capital and liquidity interaction in banking (Journal of Financial Stability, 2026)
Bank-specific capital requirements and capital management from 1989-2013: Further evidence from the UK, with William B. Francis and Qun Harris, Journal of Banking and Finance, (2021)
The evolution of competition in the UK deposit-taking sector, 1989–2013, with Michael Straughan, European Journal of Finance, (2020)
Measuring the impact of prudential policy on the macroeconomy: A practical application to Basel III and other responses to the financial crisis, FSA Occasional Papers 42 (2012)