I am a Professor in Macroeconomics in the Department of Economics at the University of Augsburg 

and

the Centre on Household Assets and Savings Management

 I am Research Associate at the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (ANU), a Fellow of the Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis and Affiliate of the CESifo Network.

I have recieved over 500.000€ of research grant funding from the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust, the ESRC and SSHRC.

My research interests lie primarily in macroeconomics, financial economics and monetary economics.