Neeltje van Horen is Senior Research Advisor at the Bank of England and Professor of Financial Economics at the University of Amsterdam. She is also a Research Fellow of the CEPR. Prior to joining the Bank of England Neeltje worked at De Nederlandsche Bank and the World Bank. She has held visiting scholar positions at the IMF, EBRD and Chicago Fed. Her research focuses on macro-financial linkages, global banking, small-business finance and household finance.