Short CV

Thomas Moser is an Alternate Member of the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank. Before joining the Swiss National Bank, he was an Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington D.C., United States. Thomas Moser is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Lucerne, a member of the Managing Committee of the Swiss Institute of Banking and Finance at the University of St. Gallen, and a Member of the Board of Directors of Orell Füssli Ltd. Thomas Moser holds a Master and a Doctorate in Economics from the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Full CV

Publications

Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics

Chaum, David and Thomas Moser. 2024. “Essential requirements for central bank digital currency,” Journal of Digital Banking, Vol. 9 (2).

Sky Guo, Joseph Kreitem, and Thomas Moser. 2024. “DLT Options for CBDC.” Journal of Central Banking Theory and Practice, Vol. 13(1), pages 57-88. Link to Paper.

Moser, Thomas, 2023. “The Simple(r) Case for Wholesale Central Bank Digital Currency.” In: Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs): Proceedings of a Colloquium, Christos V. Gortsos and Rolf Sethe (ads.), EIZ Publishing. Link to the Book.

Moser, Thomas. 2022. “Central bank digital currency: The new kid on the block?” Journal of Digital Banking, Vol. 6 (4), pp. 359-7. 

Chaum, David and Thomas Moser. 2022. eCash 2.0: Inalienably private and quantum-resistant
to counterfeiting. Link to Paper.

Grothoff, Christian and Thomas Moser. 2021. “How to issue a privacy-preserving central bank digital currency.” SUERF Policy Briefs, No. 114, June. Link to Paper

Chaum, D., Grothoff, Ch. and T. Moser. 2021. “How to issue a central bank digital currency.” SNB Working Papers, 3/2021. Link to the paper

Moser, Thomas. 2018. “Die Rolle der Zentralbanken – 10 Jahre nach der Finanzkrise.” Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Finanzmarktrecht, Jg. 90, Nr.6, pp. 598-604.

Moser, Thomas. 2017. “Monetary policy below the zero-lower bound.” In: Negative Euro Area Interest Rates and Spillovers on Western Balkan Central Bank Policies and Instruments, Eds. G. Della Valle, E. Themeli, R. Veyrune. Bank of Albania and IMF, pp. 233 – 244.

Lenz, Carlos, Thomas Moser, Dirk Niepelt, and Marcel Savioz (eds.). 2017. Monetary Economic Issues Today. Festschrift in Honour of Ernst Baltensperger, Swiss National Bank/Orell Füssli, Zürich.

Moser, Thomas. 2012. “Die Massnahmen der Schweizerischen Nationalbank gegen den starken Franken.” Die Volkswirtschaft, Heft 1/2, Jg. 85, pp. 13-15. Link to Article

Moser, Thomas. 2003. “What is International Financial Contagion?” International Finance, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 157-178.

Moser, Thomas and Bernd Schips (eds,). 2001. EMU, Financial Markets and the World Economy, Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Aeplli, Roland und Thomas Moser. 1999. Auswirkungen der Währungsunion auf den Schweizer Tourismus, Studie der KOF/ETH im Auftrag des Bundesamtes für Wirtschaft und Arbeit, Bern. 

History of Economics

Moser, Thomas and Marcel Savioz (eds.). 2022. Karl Brunner and Monetarism. MIT Press.  Link to website.

Moser, Thomas. 2000. “The idea of usury in Patristic literature.” In: The Canon in the History of Economics: Critical Essays. Edited by Michalis Psalidopoulos. London: Routledge, 2000, pp. 24-44.

Moser, Thomas. 1999. “Review of Erich Kaufer: Spiegelungen wirtschaftlichen Denkens im Mittelalter.” The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Vol. 6/3, pp. 488-90.

Moser, Thomas. 1998. “The Old Testament Anti-Usury Laws Reconsidered: the Myth of Tribal Brotherhood.” Oeconomia, 28. 

Moser, Thomas. 1997. Die patristische Zinslehre und ihre Ursprünge: vom Zinsgebot zum Wucherverbot. Schellenberg.

Other

Moser, Thomas and Andreas Wehrli. 2024. “Preparing for a Quantum-Safe Tomorrow.” Elevandi.

Moser, Thomas. 2012. “Views from Current and Former Executive Directors. Remarks,” in: Independent Evaluation at the IMF: The First Decade, eds. R. Lamdany and H. Edison, International Monetary Fund, pp. 185-87.

Moser, Thomas. 2012. “From the great moderation to the great recession”. In: Bretton Woods institutions: twenty years of partnership, 1992-2012. Zurich: Swiss National Bank, S. 62-65.

Newspapers

Moser, Thomas. 2009. Der Internationale Währungsfonds und seine neue alte Rolle in der Finanzkrise. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 06.01.2009, Nr. 3, S. 58. 

Helbling, Thomas und Thomas Moser. 2005. Strukturreformen auf dem internationalen Prüfstand: Nachholbedarf der Schweiz im Binnenmarkt. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 19.07.2005, Nr. 166, S. 23. 

Moser, Thomas. 1998. Letzte Stunden vor der Euro-Geburt. Tages Anzeiger. 22. September 1998.