Dr Christoph Görtz

Dr Christoph Görtz

Senior Lecturer in Macroeconomics

Contact details

Email
c.g.gortz@bham.ac.uk
Address
Department of Economics
JG Smith Building
Office 125
Birmingham
B15 2TT

Christoph Görtz is a senior lecturer in Macroeconomics. He completed his PhD from the University of Nottingham and graduated in 2007 as Diplom Volkswirt from the University of Bonn. His research interests are in the area of macroeconomics with particular focus on business cycles; news, expectations and uncertainty; DSGE modelling and macroeconometrics; and inventory and investment dynamics.

For more information please visit Christoph's 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

During his time time at the University of Birmingham Christoph Görtz has taught the following modules:

  • Monetary Policy (3rd year BSc)
  • Monetary Economics (MSc)
  • DSGE Modelling (PhD)

Other activities

Research Group: Cluster for Research in Econometrics, Macroeconomics and Finance (CREMF)

Director MSc Economics

Publications

"Solving Models with Jump-Discontinuities in Policy Functions," with Afrasiab Mirza, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.

"News and Financial Intermediation in Aggregate Fluctuations," with John D. Tsoukalas, Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.

"Learning, Capital Embodied Technology and Aggregate Fluctuations," with John D. Tsoukalas, Review of Economic Dynamics, 2013, vol. 16(4) .

For an up to date list of my publications and working papers please see my IDEAS page.