I hold the Chair of Applied Macroeconomics at the University of Neuchâtel, and am director of the MSc in Applied Economics, as well as Research Fellow at the KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich. Moreover, I am co-editor of the Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics and regularly write studies on policy-relevant macroeconomic questions, for example, for the State Secretariate for Economic Affairs (SECO).
My research focuses on inflation, output, interest rate, and exchange rate dynamics over long historical episodes. I am also interested in the role of monetary policy and nominal rigidities. My recent work provides econometric tools and novel data to analyze Swiss business cycle fluctuations since the 19th century.
News:
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6 September 2024: I have two new working papers out on identification of multi-dimensional monetary policy shocks (with Marc Burri) and on money market integration during 19th century Switzerland (with Rebecca Stuart). Comments are welcome!
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1 August 2023: I have been appointed full professor of applied macroeconomics at the University of Neuchâtel.
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31 May 2022: Jointly with Anne Kathrin Funk of the SNB I published an article on the interaction of bonuses and downward rigid base wages. The article is open access.
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8 April 2022: We received the 2020 best paper award of the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics. for the paper “Constrained interest rates and changing dynamics at the zero lower bound” with Gregor Bäurle, Sylvia Kaufmann and Rodney Strachan
Research interests
Macroeconomics, Monetary economics, monetary history, forecasting