I am an associate professor of economics at KU Leuven  and a member of the editorial board of the IMF Economic Review. 

After receiving my Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Michigan in 2016 I worked as a scientific collaborator at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Prior to starting my Ph.D., I graduated in International Economics from the University of Tuebingen in Germany.

My research interests lie in international macroeconomics. I carry out data-driven research to understand how economic shocks, such as changes to fiscal policy or exchange rates, are transmitted through the economy and what mechanisms help economies adjust to these shocks.  I use a variety of novel data sources to identify the local effects of economic shocks and then use quantitative, dynamic general equilibrium models to map these local effects into aggregate effects and to study their distributional consequences across households, regions and economic sectors.  

Research fields: International Finance, Macroeconomics, International Trade

I am co-organizing the macroworkshop as part of the Leuven Summer Event. Here are the links to current and past editions:

2024, 2023, 2022

I am also co-organizing the PhD mini-courses at KU Leuven that are targeted towards PhD students at Belgian universities: 

• May 15 - 17, 2024: Fabrizio Perri (register here, syllabus coming soon)

• May 19 & 22, 2023: Adrien Auclert (syllabus)