Ninth ECB Annual Research Conference 2024 – Speakers

Conference programme

He was Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford (2014-2021). His main research interests are: monetary policy, business cycle, inflation dynamics, monetary and fiscal policy interaction, DSGE models of business cycle fluctuations, and expectations driven fluctuations. He published his work in various academic journals such as American Economic Review, Economic Journal, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Monetary Economics.

Her main research interests are household finance and applied macroeconomics. She obtained her PhD from the University of Bonn and her master’s degree from the University of Mannheim. Previously, Alina Bartscher worked as a Senior Research Economist in the research unit of Danmarks Nationalbank. She is affiliated with Danmarks Nationalbank as a Visiting Scholar.

Previously, he was Director General Market Operations (from May 2012 to October 2019) and head of the Risk Management Division (between 2005 and 2008). He first entered central banking in 1994, when he joined the Economics Department of the Deutsche Bundesbank, having studied economics. His publications include, among others, Monetary Policy Operations and the Financial System, OUP, 2014; Central Banking before 1800 – A Rehabilitation, OUP, 2019; Introduction to Central Banking (with A. Fotia), Springer, 2021; Introduction to Payments and Financial Market Infrastructures (with G. Pantelopoulos), Springer, 2023.

During 2023-2024, Diana is visiting part-time the European Central Bank, at DGR-FIR. She is a CEPR Research Fellow in Banking and Corporate Finance and in Monetary Economics and Fluctuations. Her research interests are empirical banking, corporate finance, and the transmission of monetary policy. Her work has been published in leading finance journals, including the Journal of Financial Economics, Management Science, and the Review of Finance. She is co-editor of the International Journal of Central Banking and associate editor at Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Financial Stability and Emerging Markets Review.

She is also a Research Fellow and the Center for Economic Policy and Research and CESifo. Her research interests include macro asset pricing, interactions between firm credit, financial stability and monetary policy, and pricing and trading activity in fixed income markets. Nina Boyarchenko serves as an associate editor at Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial Econometrics, Journal of Banking and Finance, and Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, as well as a practitioner director at the Financial Management Association. libero, at tempus nisi ante nec urna.

She holds a joint PhD in Finance and Economics from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business and Department of Economics. Prior to her doctoral studies, Nina Boyarchenko received a B.S. in applied mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin. Her undergraduate research includes work on pricing interest rate derivatives in quadratic term structure models, with some of the procedures now implemented in the Premia pricing package.

Until September 2023, he was the Deputy Head of the Monetary and Economic Department of the BIS, where he led policy-based analyses of financial sector issues, oversaw central bank committee secretariats, and represented the BIS externally in senior groups. He worked in various positions at the World Bank (1987-2006) and was Assistant Director in the Research Department of the IMF (2007 -2014) and Senior Adviser at the Federal Reserve Board (2015 to early 2017). He holds a PhD from the Wharton School and an MA from Erasmus University, Rotterdam. He taught at the New York University business school (1987) and at the University of Amsterdam (2001-2004). He is an associate editor at several journals, a CEPR fellow and Member of the Advisory Board of the Yale Program on Financial Stability. He has published in many eminent journals, and written and edited several books, including Bank Failures and Contagion (G30, 2024), and Much Money, Little Capital and Few Reforms: The 2023 Banking Turmoil (ICMB/CEPR, forthcoming).

He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge and has previously studied at Tilburg University. His research focuses on macroeconomics, innovation, and market power, with publications in journals including the American Economic Review. Maarten has held visiting positions at institutions such as Yale University, the Federal Reserve Banks of Minneapolis and the European Central Bank. He has organized various conferences and is a member of several research centers including the Centre for Macroeconomics, the Programme for Innovation and Diffusion, and the Innovation Lab at College de France.

He studies the macroeconomic implications of market power, and the economics of work. He has published articles in economics journals and is the author of the book ‘The Profit Paradox’. His research has featured in the media, including The Economist, WSJ, FT, NYT and Bloomberg. He has been tenured professor at the UPenn and UCL and has been Louis Simpson Visiting Professor at Princeton. He is currently the president of the European Economic Association, and a fellow of the Econometric Society and Academia Europaea. He received his PhD from LSE.

He was a Senior Economist in the Monetary Policy Department of the Banque de France from 2011 to 2019, an Affiliated Professor at the Paris School of Economics from 2017 to 2019 and an Economist in the Monetary Policy Research Division of the European Central Bank 2016-2017. His research focuses on macroeconomics and monetary economics, with a particular emphasis on how economic agents form their expectations and interpret economic news. He has published articles in the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Monetary Economics, and the AEJ: Macroeconomics, among others. In 2023, he was awarded an ERC Consolidator grant to carry out research on inflation and households’ expectations.

Currently he is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Research in International Economics (CREi), a Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) and a Research Professor at the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE). He was the Director of CREi between 2001 and 2017. He has held academic positions at New York University and Columbia University. He has been a Visiting Professor at MIT. He is a Research Fellow at the CEPR, a Research Associate at the NBER, and a Fellow of the Econometric Society. He has served as a co-editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association and co-director of the CEPR International Macroeconomics Programme. In 2012 he served as President of the European Economic Association. Among other awards, Galí has received the National Research Prize from the Government of Catalonia and was co-recipient of the Yrjö Jahnsson Award. He has been a consultant to the ECB, Federal Reserve, Sveriges Riksbank, Norges Bank, Banque de France, and other central banks. His research interests include macroeconomics and monetary theory and has published articles on these topics in numerous scientific journals.

She was the director of the NBER’s Development of the American Economy program from 1989 to 2017 and is currently co-director of the NBER’s Gender in the Economy group. Most of her research interprets the present through the lens of the past and explores the origins of issues of current concern. She is the author of many books including: Understanding the Gender Gap, The Race between Education and Technology, and Career & Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey Toward Equity. Goldin was the president of the American Economic Association and of the Economic History Association. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society and is a fellow of numerous learned societies.

Dr. Philipp Hartmann is Deputy Director General of the research department at the European Central Bank, which he helped building up from its beginning. He currently chairs the European System of Central Banks ChaMP research network (Challenges for Monetary Policy Transmission in a Changing World). He is also a Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research. Previously, he held positions at the London School of Economics, the European Monetary Institute as well as Erasmus University Rotterdam, as chaired part-time professor, and acted as Vice-President of SUERF – the European Money and Finance Forum.

Mr Hartmann published research on financial, monetary and international issues in numerous journal articles and several books. He serves as an associate editor of the Journal of Financial Stability. His policy work has been published in many official reports and discussed in fora including the ECOFIN Council, the ECB Governing Council, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe.

Mr Hartmann holds a Doctorat en Sciences Economiques (Paris) earned in the European Doctoral Program in Quantitative Economics.

She is involved in theoretical and empirical research in monetary and financial economics, with a particular interest in central bank policies, financial stability, and financial regulation. Her research has been published in the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Journal of Monetary Economics, among others. She received her Ph.D. in 2006 from Cornell University’s Economics Department. During her studies, she was supported by a Fulbright Fellowship. Additional information about Marie can be found on her webpage.

She has been a Visiting Fellow at the Cowles Foundation in the Macroeconomics and Labor Public Programs. Kerstin earned her PhD in economics from the University of Chicago and subsequently held a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London before joining Sciences Po. Her research focuses on labor markets, firm dynamics and the macroeconomy. She has explored the impact of firm effects on the wage distribution, and how worker specialization affects job matches and lifetime income. Additionally, she examines the role of labor mobility in spreading innovation and driving economic growth across the economy.

Prior to that he served as Head of the Project Office for the ECB’s 2020-21 Monetary Policy Strategy Review and as Head of the ECB’s Fiscal Policies Division. He studied Economics at the University of Paris IX – Dauphine and at the University of Cologne and holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Kiel. His research has focussed on the macroeconomic effects of fiscal policy and monetary policy – fiscal policy interactions, on which he has published several articles in academic journals including Economic Policy and the Review of Economic Studies.

Prior to this he worked at the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. His research focuses on banking and international finance issues, and has been widely published in academic journals, including the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Review of Financial Studies. He has also published books on Systemic Risk, Crises and Macroprudential Regulation (MIT Press), Systemic Financial Crises: Containment and Resolution (Cambridge University Press), and Deposit Insurance Around the World: Issues of Design and Implementation (MIT Press). He is a Professor of Finance at Tilburg University, Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Chair of the ESCB Heads of Research Committee, Chair of the Steering Committee of the Euro Area Business Cycle Network, Editor of the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, and Member of the Board of Directors of TalentNomics. He studied at Tilburg University, the University of Amsterdam, and the London School of Economics.

He is Adjunct Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, and Research Fellow of CEPR.

Previously, he has been Professor of Economics at University College London, Director of MOVE, Research Professor at IAE-CSIC, Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Professor at the London School of Economics (LSE), and Associate Professor at Carnegie-Mellon University. Professor Marcet's research focuses on four main areas: expectations learning models, dynamic model solving techniques, fiscal policy and time series.

Highlights of his work include his collaboration with Thomas Sargent studying convergence of models of learning to rational expectations. More recently he has used learning models to explain the behavior of the economy and the design of acroeconomic policies. He showed that the hyperinflations observed in many countries in the 1980s can be explained naturally with learning models, explained asset price volatility, and the adequacy of various policies under learning. Other work develops techniques to solve dynamic models, including recursive contracts and optimal policy with signal extraction, and various topics on fiscal policy. His work has been supported by two Advanced ERC grants APMPAL and APMPAL-HET.

At the European Central Bank, Nakov has been a Senior / Principal Economist in the Monetary Policy Research Division since 2013. Prior to this, he worked as an Economist at the Bank of Spain and at the Board of Governors of the US Federal Reserve System. He completed his doctoral studies in Economics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in 2007. Nakov's works include studies on price stickiness, the effects of monetary policy, and the dynamics of the oil market. He contributes to understanding inflation dynamics under state-dependent pricing, and optimal monetary policy in different economic environments. Nakov is a Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, and his work has been published and cited in leading professional journals.

Professor Parlatore is an applied finance theorist working on topics related to financial intermediation. She is particularly interested in how financial intermediaries affect the stability and efficiency of the financial system and their regulation. While Professor Parlatore's work is primarily theoretical, it covers both theoretical and empirical aspects of financial intermediary behavior.

Before joining NYU Stern, Professor Parlatore was an Assistant Professor of Finance at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her B.A. and M.A. in Economics from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires and her Ph.D. in Economics from New York University.

He is currently the Head of the Economics Department at UCL. He is also an IZA Research Fellow, a member of the Centre for Macroeconomics and a founding member of the European Search and Matching (SaM) network. He received his Ph.D. in economics at Université de Paris I in 1998.

His research fields are applied and theoretical labor economics, labor market policy and economic dynamics. The focus of most of his recent contributions is on the economics and econometrics of job search models, and on the joint dynamics of labor reallocation an inflation over the business cycle. He has a number of articles published in various international academic journals including American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies, International Economic Review, the Economic Journal, the Journal of the European Economic Association, and Econometrica.

He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and received the Frisch medal, jointly with Jean-Marc Robin, in 2006.

Her research empirically examines the inflation expectations of households and firms, with a particular focus on the impact of expectations on household decision-making and the response of expectations to information. She completed her PhD in economics in 2018 at the University of Texas.

His research interests include Macroeconomics, Behavioral Macroeconomics, and International Finance. Recently, he has studied how systematic monetary policy influences the propagation of macroeconomic shocks, such as oil supply disruptions, government purchases, and changes in government revenue, as well as how non-rational human behavior impacts the effectiveness of fiscal and monetary policy. He has published academic papers in the Review of Economic Studies, the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, and the Journal of Monetary Economics.

He was formerly a tenured faculty member at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. Seru’s primary research interest relates to financial intermediation and regulation, with recent work concentrating on bank regulation in the era of fintech and shadow banking. He has served on several editorial boards and was most recently a coeditor of the Journal of Finance. He has received various National Science Foundation grants and the Alexandre Lamfalussy Research Fellowship from the Bank for International Settlements, and was named as one of the Top 25 Economists under 45 by the International Monetary Fund in 2014. He has presented his research to US and international regulatory agencies. His research has been featured in leading economics and finance journals and major media outlets. Seru earned his PhD in finance from the University of Michigan.

He completed his PhD in Economics at The University of Chicago. He was a Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and has taught in the Ph.D. programs at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and University College London. He has worked on issues of monetary and fiscal policy, including the Friedman rule, time consistent policies, optimal stabilization, currency areas, instruments of monetary policy, and other aspects of policy such as taxation of capital, trade, automation, and immigration policy.

His work has been published in the American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Monetary Economics, Economic journal.

She is also a Research Fellow of the CEPR. Prior to joining the Bank of England Neeltje worked at De Nederlandsche Bank and the World Bank.

Her research focuses on macro-financial linkages, small-business finance, mortgage lending and global banking and has been widely published in leading academic journals, including the Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, American Economic Journal – Macroeconomics, Review of Finance, Journal of Financial Intermediation, and Journal of the European Economic Association. Besides her work as an economist, Neeltje van Horen, is also an author, currently writing a book about how to boost cognitive performance and improve work-life balance.

His research, which has been published in leading academic journals, focuses on macroeconomic policy and political economy. He is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Yared teaches Global Economic Environment, a Core MBA course in macroeconomics for which he received the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Economic Club of New York. Yared received his AB in Economics from Harvard University and his PhD in Economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.