Welcome
I am Professor of Economics at the Department of Business Administration at Munich University of Applied Sciences.
I am a Research Associate of the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA) in the Crawford School of Public Policy (Australian National University).
Previously, I was a Research Fellow at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra, Italy.
My fields of interest are international macroeconomics, monetary economics, DSGE modelling, fiscal policy, applied macro-econometrics, and global sensitivity analysis.
I am serving as an Associate Editor for International Economics and Economic Policy.
News:
June 2024: "Germany's macroeconomic drivers through the COVID-19 pandemic and recovery period.
February 2024: "Myopic behaviour in macroeconomic models: Empirical evidence from the US" (with A. Ifrim, B. Pataracchia and M. Ratto), CAMA working paper 11/2024.
August 2023: ''The macroeconomic effects of unconventional monetary policy: Comparing Euro Area and US models with shadow rates'' (with M. Ratto and L. Vogel), Economic Modelling, Vol 127, 106438.
July 2023: 'The ECB Strategy Review - Implication for the space of monetary policy'' (with L. Briciu, L. Onorante, B. Pataracchia, M. Ratto and L. Vogel). European Economy Discussion Paper 193.
September 2021: ''The euro area’s COVID-19 recession through the lens of an estimated structural macro model'' (with R. Cardani, O. Croitorov, F. Di Dio, L. Frattarolo, M. Giovannini, P. Pfeiffer, M. Ratto and L. Vogel). VoxEU column
February 2021: Replication package available for ''The macroeconomic effects of quantitative easing in the euro area'' (with R. Priftis and L. Vogel).
February 2021: Replication package available for ''Comparing post-crisis dynamics across Euro Area countries with the Global Multi-country model'' (with A. Albonico et al.).