Welcome to my website! I am an economist working as Head of the Capital Markets/Financial Structure Division in the Directorate General Monetary Policy of the European Central Bank. Prior to joining the ECB, I have been an Economist in the Economics department of Deutsche Bundesbank.
I hold a PhD (Dr. rer. pol.) and an MA (Dipl.-Volkswirt) in economics from Bielefeld University. My research focuses on financial markets, monetary macroeconomics and applied econometrics, and my work has been published in refereed journals.
NEWS (more or less over the last 6 months)
- 4 April 2025 – Paper “An options-based impact study of the negative interest rate policy and forward guidance” (with Rostagno, Altavilla, Carboni, Motto and Saint-Guilhem), forthcoming at Journal of Monetary Economics
- 2 April 2025 – Chaired the session “on “Does AI matter for monetary policy” at the ECB conference “The transformative power of AI: economic implications and challenges” (see YouTube Video)
- 31 January 2025 – Paper “Time-varying risk aversion and inflation-consumption correlation in an equilibrium term structure model” (with Bletzinger and Renne) published in Journal of Financial Econometrics
- 20 November 2024 – Panel discussion on “Gaining valuable insights on working for European institutions”, organised by European Horizons, HEC Paris
- 19 November 2024 – Presentation of “Excess Liquidity and the Yield Curve” (with Vladu) at Banque de France seminar
This is my private website. The views expressed here are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Central Bank or the Eurosystem.
Last update: 21 April 2025