Kai Christoffel
Economics
- Division
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Forecasting and Policy Modelling
- Current Position
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Senior Lead Economist
- Fields of interest
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Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics,Mathematical and Quantitative Methods,Labour Economics
- Other current responsibilities
- 2017-2020
Development of the ECB-MC multi country model
- Education
- 2001-2005
PhD in Economics at Goethe University Frankfurt (Adviser: Volker Wieland)
- 1997-1999
Postgraduate Studies in Economics at Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna
- Professional experience
- 2020
Senior Lead Economist - Forecasting and Policy Modelling Division, Directorate General Economics, European Central Bank
- 2017-2019
Principal Economist - Forecasting and Policy Modelling Division, Directorate General Economics, European Central Bank
- 2012-2017
Principal Economist - Monetary Research Division, Directorate General Research, European Central Bank
- 2011-2012
Senior Economist - Monetary Research Division, Directorate General Research, European Central Bank
- 2009-2011
Senior Economist - Econometric Modelling Division, Monetary Research Division, Directorate General Research, European Central Bank
- 2004-2009
Economist - Econometric Modelling Division, Monetary Research Division, Directorate General Research, European Central Bank
- 2003-2004
Researcher (part-time) - Research Center of Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt, Germany
- 2001-2004
Research and Teaching Assistant - Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
- 1999-2001
Economist - Modelling and Forecasting Unit; Directorate Economics, Austrian Nationalbank, Vienna
- 27 November 2020
- 23 June 2020
- 16 September 2019
- 19 May 2015
- 23 April 2013
- 20 December 2011
- 5 May 2010
- 15 May 2009
- 24 March 2009
- 13 October 2008
- 26 August 2008
- 9 June 2006
- 25 November 2005
- 2016
- Journal of Applied EconometricsMarginalized Predictive Likelihood Comparisons of Linear Gaussian State‐Space Models with Applications to DSGE, DSGE‐VAR, and VAR Models
- 2010
- Journal of Money, Credit, and BankingThe Role of Real Wage Rigidity and Labor Market Frictions for Inflation Persistence
- 2010
- SERIEs, Journal of the Spanish Economic SocietyThe use of DSGE models at the ECB
- 2010
- European Economic ReviewThe Role of Labor Markets for Euro Area Monetary Policy
- 2009
- Economics LettersThe Elasticity of Unemployment with Respect to Benefits
- 2008
- Journal of Monetary EconomicsResuscitating the Wage Channel in Models with Unemployment Fluctuations
- 2007
- Journal of Monetary EconomicsIdentifying the Influences of Nominal and Real Rigidities in Aggregate Price-Setting Behavior
- 2011
- Oxford Handbook on Economic ForecastingForecasting with DSGE models