About
Research Interests:
Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - with particular interest in business cycles; news, expectations and learning; financial intermediation and financial frictions; DSGE modelling; and inventory and investment dynamics.
For more information please visit my personal website
Qualifications
DiplVw (University of Bonn, Germany), PhD (University of Nottingham)
Biography
Christoph Görtz joined the Department of Economics in July 2012. Prior to this he worked for one year as a temporary lecturer at the University of Nottingham. During the completion of his PhD Christoph also worked at the Bank of England where he contributed to the development of the Bank's new main forecasting model. Christoph's main fields of interest are macroeconomics and monetary economics. He is currently working on the effects of credit market imperfections on business cycles and the role of news, learning and anticipation effects for aggregate fluctuations.
Teaching
I am currently teaching the following modules:
Monetary Policy (3rd year BSc)
Macroeconomics (MSc)
DSGE Modelling (PhD)
Other activities
Research Group:
Cluster for Research in Econometrics, Macroeconomics and Finance (CREMF)
Publications
Publications:
Christoph Görtz & John D. Tsoukalas, . "Learning, Capital Embodied Technology and Aggregate Fluctuations," Review of Economic Dynamics, forthcoming
For an up to date list of my publications and working papers please see my IDEAS page