Thanks for visiting my homepage. I work at the Research Department at the European Central Bank. I've previously worked (or held visiting positions) at Berkeley, MIT, Kent, Surrey, the European Commission, and the IMF. I am also an honorary unpaid visiting professor at the Catholic University of Brasília. 

Staying on academic matters, see my slides:

Navigating The Profession: Reflections on how to research, publish well & stay sane .. 

I'm ranked in the top 3% of cited authors in economics (RePEc) over the whole sample and in the top 2% for the last 10 years, and in the top 5% in 37/39 of their raking indices, and I average around 450 citations per year. I am in the top 4% of paper downloads from ResearchGate. My Google Scholar metrics are: h-index 33, i10-index 66. 

My work has been published in many leading journals including: 

American Economic Review 

Review of Economics & Statistics 

Journal of Monetary Economics 

Journal of the European Economic Association 

Journal of Business Economics & Statistics 

AEA Papers & Proceedings 

European Economic Review 

Journal of Money, Credit & Banking 

I tend to do research in the fields of economic growth, econometrics, and monetary & macro economics. In addition to the pages on this site, below are other websites which contain information on my work and activities. 


I have refereed for the following journals:

American Economic Review*, ECB working paper series*, Econometrica*, Economic Journal, Economic Modeling*, Economics Letters, Empirical Economics, Energy Policy, European Economic Review*, International Journal of Central Banking*, Journal of Applied Econometrics*, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control*, Journal of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Surveys*, Journal of Economics, Journal of Forecasting, Journal of International Money and Finance*, Journal of Macroeconomics*, Journal of Mathematical Economics, Journal of Monetary Economics, Macroeconomic Dynamics*, Journal of Money Credit and Banking*, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics*, Oxford Economic Papers*, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Review of Economic Dynamics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Scottish Journal of Political Economy*, Springer books, Swiss National Bank working paper series, Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics. 

where * indicates multiple times.


To contact me use   peter.mcadam [at] proton.me

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Note: This site is personal; it is not related to the European Central Bank or the euro system.

Last update: 29 June 2025