Christoph Görtz

Christoph Görtz

Professor of Macroeconomics

Contact details

Email
c.g.gortz@bham.ac.uk
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Address
Birmingham Business School
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Christoph Görtz is a Professor of 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)

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 Research Group

Co-Director of the Macroeconomics and Finance Research Group

Director MSc Economics

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Gortz, C, Sakellaris, P & Tsoukalas, J 2023, 'Firms’ financing dynamics around lumpy capacity adjustments', European Economic Review, vol. 156, 10448. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2023.104481

Gortz, C, McGowan, D & Yeromonahos, M 2023, 'Furlough and Household Financial Distress during the COVID‐19 Pandemic', Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. https://doi.org/10.1111/obes.12556

Gortz, C, Tsoukalas, J, Li, W & Zanetti, F 2023, 'The effect of monetary policy shocks in the United Kingdom: an external instruments approach', Macroeconomic Dynamics. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1365100522000657

Gortz, C, Gunn, C & Lubik, T 2023, 'What drives inventory accumulation? News on rates of return and marginal costs', Journal of Money, Credit and Banking.

Gortz, C & Yeromonahos, M 2022, 'Asymmetries in risk premia, macroeconomic uncertainty and business cycles', Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, vol. 137, 104330. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jedc.2022.104330

Gortz, C, Gunn, C & Lubik, T 2022, 'Is there news in inventories?', Journal of Monetary Economics, vol. 126, pp. 87-104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmoneco.2022.01.005

Gortz, C, Tsoukalas, J & Zanetti, F 2022, 'News shocks under financial frictions', American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 210-243. https://doi.org/10.1257/mac.20170066

Gambetti, L, Gortz, C, Korobilis, D, Tsoukalas, JD & Zanetti, F 2022, 'The effect of news shocks and monetary policy', Advances in Econometrics, vol. 44A, pp. 138-164. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0731-90532022000044A005

Gortz, C & Tsoukalas, JD 2018, 'Sectoral TFP News Shocks', Economics Letters, vol. 168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2018.03.001

Gortz, C & Mirza, A 2018, 'Solving models with jump discontinuities in policy functions', Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, vol. 80, no. 2, pp. 434-456. https://doi.org/10.1111/obes.12203

Gortz, C & Tsoukalas, J 2017, 'News and financial intermediation in aggregate fluctuations', The Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 99, no. 3, pp. 514-530. https://doi.org/10.1162/REST_a_00612

Gortz, C & Tsoukalas, JD 2012, 'Learning, capital-embodied technology and aggregate fluctuations', Review of Economic Dynamics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.red.2012.04.003

Other contribution

Gortz, C, McGowan, D & Koirala, S 2022, How a new and improved furlough scheme could help the UK tackle recession and economic uncertainty. The Conversation . <https://theconversation.com/how-a-new-and-improved-furlough-scheme-could-help-the-uk-tackle-recession-and-economic-uncertainty-192207>

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