Welcome to my website! I am a Professor of Economics at Universität Hamburg, and a research fellow at CEPR, CESifo, and the IMFS. Previously, I was a central bank economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
My research focuses on the role of financial markets for the macroeconomy, monetary policy, and climate change. I am particularly interested in understanding the effects of monetary policy on the yield curve and asset prices—including monetary policy surprises, forward guidance, monetary policy communication, quantitative easing, monetary policy uncertainty, and risks to the economic outlook. More recently I’ve been working on social discount rates, the social cost of carbon and climate finance.
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- Monetary Economics
- Financial Economics
- Climate Finance
- Time Series Econometrics
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Ph.D. in Economics, 2010
University of California, San Diego
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M.A. in Quant. Economics and Finance, 2005
University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
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B.A. in Economics, 2003
University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Current Work
A Reassessment of Monetary Policy Surprises and High-Frequency Identification
with Eric Swanson. Prepared for 2022 NBER Macro Annual Conference.
An Alternative Explanation for the “Fed Information Effect”
with Eric Swanson. Revise-and-resubmit at American Economic Review.
Interest Rate Skewness and Biased Beliefs
with Mikhail Chernov. Revise-and-resubmit at Journal of Finance.
Perceptions about Monetary Policy
with Carolin Pflueger and Adi Sunderam.
Monetary Policy, Risk-Taking, and the Macroeconomy
with Ben Bernanke and Eric Milstein. Prepared for the Journal of Economic Perspectives.
Climate Policy Curves
with Martin Hänsel, Moritz Drupp, Gernot Wagner and Glenn Rudebusch.
The Pricing of Climate Risks in Bond and Stock Markets
with Daniel Huber and Ole Wilms.
Featured Publications
EJ Preprint PDF FRBSF Working Paper Code and Data Daily uncertainty measure
REStat Preprint FRBSF Working Paper Online Appendix Code & Data r* estimates SDRs
Seminars
UHH Seminar “Quantitative Economics”
The seminar “Quantitative Economics” is a weekly research seminar at Universität
Hamburg. The focus is on empirical and quantitative research in macroeconomics,
finance and international economics. Currently, during the summer semester 2022,
we are having both
in-person (hybrid) and digital presentations.
More information here.
Virtual Seminar on Climate Economics
The Virtual Seminar on Climate Economics is an online seminar series open to everyone
interested in research on the economics of climate change.
More information here.