CURRENT POSITIONS

since 04/2018                       Head of Department Macroeconomics, DIW Berlin

since 04/2019                       Professor, Freie Universität Berlin

FORMER POSITIONS

2014 - 2019                          Professor, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg

2010 - 2014                          Juniorprofessor, Universität Bonn

2009 - 2010                          Post-doctoral researcher, Universiteit van Amsterdam

2008 - 2009                          Max Weber Fellow, European University Institute Florence

2006                                     Visiting student, Princeton University

EDUCATION

2004 - 2009                         Ph.D. in Economics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

1999 - 2004                         M.A. in Economics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Empirical macroeconomics, fiscal and monetary policy

EDITORIAL POSITION

since 2017                         Associate Editor European Economic Review

FURTHER AFFILIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS

2020 – 2024	Member of the ethics committee Verein fuer Socialpolitik
since 2020	Member standing field committee “Macroeconomics”
since 2016	Member standing field committee “Monetary Economics”
2014 – 2019	Research Professor, Halle Institute for Economic Research

PUBLICATIONS

Active or Passive? Revisiting the Role of Fiscal Policy During High Inflation, with Stephanie Ettmeier, EuropeanEconomicReview, accepted

A HANK2 model of monetary unions, with Christian Bayer, Gernot Müller and Fabian Seyrich, JournalofMonetaryEconomics, forthcoming

Weather-related Disasters and Inflation in the Euro Area, with John Beirne, Yannis Dafermos, Nuobu Renzhi, Ulrich Volz, and Jana Wittich JournalofBankingandFinance, 169, 2024

Exit expectations and debt crises in currency unions, with Gernot Müller and Martin Wolf, JournalofInternationalEconomics, 121, 2019

Same, but different: testing monetary policy shock measures, with Stephanie Ettmeier, EconomicsLetters, 184, 2019

Monetary-fiscal policy interaction and fiscal inflation: A Tale of three countries, with Martin Kliem and Samad Sarferaz, EuropeanEconomicReview, 88, 158-184, 2016

On the low-frequency relationship between inflation and public deficits, with Martin Kliem and Samad Sarferaz, JournalofAppliedEconometrics, 31(3), 566-583, 2016

Nested models and model uncertainty, with Christian Stoltenberg, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 118(2), 324-352, 2016

Monetary policy and the transaction role for money, with Christian Stoltenberg, Economic Journal, 125(587), 1452-1473, 2015

Toward a Taylor rule for fiscal policy, with Martin Kliem, Review of Economic Dynamics, 17(2), 294-302, 2014

Reconciling narrative monetary policy disturbances with structural VAR model shocks?, with Martin Kliem, EconomicsLetters, 121(2), 247-251, 2013

Pre-announcement And Timing: The Effects Of A Government Expenditure Shock, European

EconomicReview, 56(3), 373-388, 2012

WORKING PAPERS

Friend, not foe - Energy Prices and European Monetary Policy, with Gökhan Ider, Frederik Kurcz, and Ben Schumann

Financial repression in general equilibrium: The case of the United States, 1948–1974, with

Martin Kliem, Gernot Müller and Alexander Scheer

Hicks in HANK, with Christian Bayer, Gernot Müller and Fabian Seyrich

Is there an Information Channel of Monetary Policy? , with Oliver Holtemöller and Boreum Kwak

Income Business Cycles, with Geraldine Dany-Knedlik and Sandra Pasch

The term structure of redenomination risk, with Christian Bayer and Chi Hyun Kim

RESEARCH GRANTS

Leibniz competition, principal investigator, “Distributional effects of macroeconomic policies in Europe”, with Franziska Bremus and Lena Toenzer, 900,000 Euro, 2021-24

German Science Foundation, SPP 1859: principal investigator, “Creating expectations”, with Moritz Schularick, 450,000 Euro, 2019-2022

Bertelsmann Foundation, principal investigator, “The impact of monetary policy on structural reforms in the euro area”, 35,000 Euro 2019/20

Deutsche Bundesbank, principal investigator, “The effect of the low nominal interest rate environment on household investment behavior”, 30,000 Euro 2019/20

German Science Foundation, SPP 1859: principal investigator, “Great expectations? Germany’s recovery from the Great Depression, 1932-1936”, with Philip Jung and Moritz Schularick, 416,000 Euro, 2016-2019

POLICY BRIEFINGS

Neue Grundsätze im Ethikkodex des Vereins für Socialpolitik, (with Aderonke Osikominu, Doris Weichselbaumer, Georg Weizsäcker), Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, 21, 4-7, 2022

Evidenzbasierte Verbandsarbeit: der erweiterte Ethikkodex des Vereins für Socialpolitik, (with deronke Osikominu, Doris Weichselbaumer, Georg Weizsäcker), Wirtschaftsdienst, 102, 105107, 2022

Über die Ursachen und das mögliche Ende der niedrigen Zinsen in Deutschland, (with Marcel Fratzscher), Wirtschaftsdienst, 100, 12-16, 2020

Public or Private? The Future of Money: In-Depth Analysis, (with Chi Hyun Kim), European Parliament: Monetary Dialogue Papers, 2019

Gut investierte Schulden sind eine Entlastung in der Zukunft, (with Marcel Fratzscher and Claus Michelsen), Wirtschaftsdienst, 99, 313-317, 2019

Happy birthday? The Euro at 20, (with Kerstin Bernoth, Franziska Bremus, Geraldine DanyKnedlik,HenrikEnderlein,MarcelFratzscher,LukasGuttenberg,RosaLastra),EuropeanParliament: Monetary Dialogue Papers, 2019

Der Euro als Erfolgsgeschichte, (with Marcel Fratzscher), Wirtschaftsdienst, 98, 839-858, 2018

POLICY CONSULTANCY

Federal Ministry of Finance, framework contract (DIW and ifo), 2019-2022, 2022-2024

European Parliament, framework contract (DIW, Hertie School Berlin, WiFo, Queen Mary University) “Monetary Expert Panel”, 2018-2025

Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, “Big Data in Macroeconomic Analysis:

texts as a data source for the economic analysis” (with Claus Michelsen), 2019-2021

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATIONS

“Next steps for HANK” (with Christian Bayer), 2023

“Macroeconometric Workshop” (with Michael Burda, Geraldine Dany-Knedlik, Simone Maxand, Dieter Nautz), 2022

Federal ministry of finance workshop “Libra & Co. - Stable as a challenge to international monetary and payment systems” (with Chi Hyun Kim), 2019

“Macroeconometric Workshop” (with Geraldine Dany-Knedlik, Dieter Nautz, Malte Rieth and Mathias Trabandt), 2019

Workshop “Fiscal policy in Times of Crisis” (with Malte Rieth), 2019 Conference “Great slumps, policy responses and populism: past and present” (with Moritz Schularick and Christoph Trebesch), 2017

Workshop on Macrohistory (with Moritz Schularick), 2017

Workshop“Fromthearchivestotheformationofexperienceandexpectations”(withLaetitia Lenel), 2016

REFEREEING FOR

B.E. journal (Macroeconomics), Economic Journal, Economic Letters, Economic Modelling, Empirica, Empirical Economics, European Economic Review, European Journal of the Political Economy, International Tax and Public Finance, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Review of International Economics

TEACHING

FreieUniversitätBerlin

Advanced Macroeconomic Analysis II (Ph.D.)	2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Bayesian DSGE Model Estimation (Ph.D.)	2019
Topics in Macroeconomics (Ph.D.)	2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
Monetary Economics (M.A.) Martin-Luther-UniversitätHalle-Wittenberg	2020
Monetary Economics (M.A.)	2015, 2016, 2017
Applied Macroeconometrics (M.A.)	2015, 2016
The interaction between monetary and fiscal policy (M.A.)	2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
Monetary Economics (B.A.)	2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
Introduction into quantitative Macroeconomics (B.A.)	2015
Monetary macro and beyond: Faust II (B.A.)	2016, 2017

RheinischeFriedrich-Wilhems-UniversitätBonn

Monetary Economics (M.A.)	2010, 2012, 2013, 2014
Dynamic Macroeconomics (M.A. and Ph.D.)	2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
Topics in Macroeconomics (Ph.D.)	2013, 2012
Project Module in Macroeconomics (M.A.) RuhrgraduateschoolEssen	2012
Bayesian DSGE Model Estimation (Ph.D.) TinbergenInstituteAmsterdam	2017
Bayesian DSGE Model Estimation (Ph.D.)	2010

HONORS

2017      Short-listed for Best Teaching in Economics and Business studies at the University Halle-Wittenberg

2011      Award for Best Teaching (Category: non-compulsory course Master level in economics) at the University of Bonn

2004     Award for best M.A. in Economics, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Gesellschaft e.V.

Berlin, June 2024