Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Wirtschaftswissen\=schaftliche Fakultät

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin School of Economics and Business Institute of Economic Policy Spandauer Straße 1 D-10099 Berlin Germany Contact Information   [Download CV]

Current Position

Research Interests

Education and Academic Employment

• Assistant Professor, September 2005–September 2009
  Duke University, Department of Economics, Durham, USA
   
• Ph.D. in Economics, 2005
  Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Department of Economics, Barcelona, Spain
  Dissertation: “Essays on Sticky Prices, Aggregate Investment, and Monetary Policy”
  Supervisor: Professor Jordi Galí.
   
• Master in Economics with Honors, 2000
  Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Department of Economics, Barcelona, Spain
   
• Diploma in Economics with Honors, 1998
  Universität Trier, Department of Economics, Germany
   
• Licence in Economic and Social Administration with Honors, 1995
  Université Montpellier III, Department of Economics, Law, and Social Sciences, France

Publications

• “Inflation and Labor Market Dynamics Revisited” [Download full text]
  (with Tommy Sveen), Journal of Monetary Economics, 56 (2009), 1096–1100.
  (Download the working paper: Kiel Working Paper No. 1368, June 2007.)

• “Firm-Specific Capital and Welfare” [Download full text]
  (with Tommy Sveen), International Journal of Central Banking, 5 (2009), 147–179.

• “New Keynesian Perspectives on Labor Market Dynamics” [Download full text]
  (with Tommy Sveen), Journal of Monetary Economics, 55 (2008), 921–930; prepared for the Carnegie–Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, “Labor Market, Macroeconomic Fluctuations, and Monetary Policy”, held at Carnegie Mellon University on November 9–10, 2007.
  (Download the working paper on which the article is based.)

• “Firm-Specific Capital, Nominal Rigidities, and the Taylor Principle” [Download full text]
  (with Tommy Sveen), Journal of Economic Theory, 136 (2007), 729–737.
  (Download the working paper.)

• “Lumpy Investment, Sticky Prices, and the Monetary Transmission Mechanism” [Download full text]
  (with Tommy Sveen), Journal of Monetary Economics, 54S (2007), 23–36.
  (Download first and second working paper.)

• “New Perspectives on Capital, Sticky Prices, and the Taylor Principle” [Download full text]
  (with Tommy Sveen), Journal of Economic Theory, 123 (2005), 21–39.
  (Download first and second working paper.)

Working Papers (Submitted)

• "Optimal Monetary Policy with Nominal Rigidities
  and Lumpy Investment" (with Tommy Sveen)

 

• “The Taylor Principle in a Medium-Scale Macroeconomic Model”
  (with Tommy Sveen), Norges Bank Working Paper 2010/09.
   
• “Lumpy Investment and State-Dependent Pricing in General Equilibrium”*
  (with Michael Reiter and Tommy Sveen)
  
  

  *The first version of this paper was circulated as Norges Bank Working Paper 2009/05.