Benjamin Born is Professor of Macroeconomics at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and Research Director at the ifo Institute’s Center for Macroeconomics and Surveys. He is also a research fellow with CEPR and CESifo. Currently, he serves as an external consultant to the EU Commission’s Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN) and as a member of the European Parliament’s Monetary Expert Panel. Additionally, he contributes as an Associate Editor at the European Economic Review. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Bonn Graduate School of Economics.

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Interests

  • Business Cycles
  • Fiscal and Monetary Policy
  • Heterogeneous Agents
  • Empirical Methods

Education

  • PhD in Economics, 2011

    University of Bonn, Germany

  • MSc in Econometrics and Economics, 2007

    University of York, UK

  • BA/MA in Economics, 2006

    University of Siegen, Germany

Current Work

(2024). Uncertainty in Monetary Unions.

CEPR DP15579 Ungated

(2024). The impact of interest: Firms' investment sensitivity to interest rates.

Ungated

(2024). Firm Expectations and News: Micro v Macro.

CEPR DP17768 Ungated VoxEU

(2024). A Temporary VAT Cut as Unconventional Fiscal Policy. Review of Economic Studies, reject & resubmit.

NBER WP29442 Ungated VoxEU Feature @ BFI

(2023). Monetary Policy in the Age of Social Media: A Twitter-Based Inflation Analysis.

Paper

(2020). Different no more: Country spreads in advanced and emerging economies.

CEPR DP14392 Ungated VoxEU

Selected Publications

Browse all publications here.
(2024). Shocks, Frictions, and Inequality in US Business Cycles. American Economic Review, 114(5), pp. 1211–1247 (lead article).

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(2024). Mr. Keynes meets the Classics: Government Spending and the Real Exchange Rate. Journal of Political Economy, 132(5), pp. 1642–1683.

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(2023). Unconventional Fiscal Policy at Work. AEA Papers & Proceedings, 113, pp. 61–64.

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(2023). The Liquidity Channel of Fiscal Policy. Journal of Monetary Economics, 134, pp. 86–117.

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(2023). The Coronavirus Stimulus Package: How large is the transfer multiplier?. Economic Journal, 133(652), pp. 1318–1347.

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(2021). Uncertainty-driven Business Cycles: Assessing the Markup Channel. Quantitative Economics, 12(2), pp. 587–623.

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(2020). Does Austerity Pay Off?. Review of Economics and Statistics, 102(2), pp. 323–338.

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(2019). The Costs of Economic Nationalism: Evidence from the Brexit Experiment. Economic Journal, 129(623), pp. 2722–2744.

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(2019). Time-Varying Business Volatility and the Price Setting of Firms. Journal of Monetary Economics, 101, pp. 82–99.

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(2014). Risk Matters: The Real Effects of Volatility Shocks: Comment. American Economic Review, 104(12), pp. 4231–4239.

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(2014). Policy Risk and the Business Cycle. Journal of Monetary Economics, 68, pp. 68–85.

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(2014). Central Bank Communication on Financial Stability. Economic Journal, 124(577), pp. 701–734.

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Books / volumes and non-technical writing

(2024). On FIRE, news, and expectations. Handbook of Economic Expectations in Historical Perspective, Routledge, forthcoming.

CEPR DP18259 Ungated

(2022). Firm expectations about production and prices: Facts, determinants, and effects. Handbook of Economic Expectations, Elsevier, Chap. 12, pp. 355–384.

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(2011). How Should Central Banks Deal with a Financial Stability Objective? The Evolving Role of Communication as a Policy Instrument. Handbook of Central Banking, Financial Regulation and Supervision, Edward Elgar, Chap. 9, pp. 245–268.

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Teaching

Current Teaching

  • Macroeconomics (B.Sc. + Ph.D.)
  • Global Economy (Bocconi@FrankfurtSchool EMBA)
  • Advanced Management Program (Exec. Education)

Past Teaching

Macroeconomics and Econometrics at all levels.

Thesis Supervision

I supervise theses in the area of macroeconomics and applied econometrics. To apply for supervision, please email me an up-to-date transcript, a short CV, and a rough description of what you are interested in.

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