Lucia SATRAGNO
Visiting Researcher
Visiting Period : 1 February 2017 to 31 March 2019

Lucia Satragno is a doctoral fellow at the World Trade Institute, University of Bern since May 2014 and a visiting researcher at the Centre for Banking and Finance Law, NUS since February 2017. Her thesis deals with the potential impact of the emerging doctrine of Common Concern of Humankind in the field of international monetary law. Her studies are financed since August 2015 through the grant provided by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) for the Project on 'Common Concern of Humankind' lead by Professor Thomas Cottier.

Before focusing on her doctoral studies, Lucia worked as a research fellow in monetary and financial law at the World Trade Institute (2012-2014) and as a legal counsel in banking and finance law for a major law firm (2004-2009) and a corporate bank (2009-2010) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Lucia holds a law degree with honours from the University of Buenos Aires (2003) and an LLM degree with distinction, awarded by Queen Mary University of London (2010-2011).

Research Areas

International Monetary Law

Since the global financial crisis of 2007-2009 the monetary authorities of most of the developed and emerging countries have deployed conventional and unconventional monetary policies at its maximum in their search for financial and monetary stability. Most of these policy decisions proved adequate for the pursuit of the statutory, law or treaty based objectives of central banks. That is, domestic and regional policy measures designed to achieve self-oriented goals. However, in a financially integrated global economy, the effects of these policies are not confined to the domestic jurisdiction and have an impact beyond the borders. These cross-border effects or so-called monetary policy spillovers have prompted, on the one hand, unilateral reactions to avoid or mitigate the unwanted effects and, on the other hand, have rekindled the debate about monetary policy coordination at the international level. In this context, a clear trade-off between domestically oriented monetary policies and global monetary stability is evidenced and it is the main objective of study of Lucia's doctoral thesis in the area of international monetary law.