Alexander Matthias Dietrich

Research Unit, Economics and Monetary Policy


Fields of interest: Monetary Economics, Household Expectations, Behavioural Economics, Surveys, Climate Change
amdi@nationalbanken.dk
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Professional Experience

Research Economist, Danmarks Nationalbank, 2023 –

Education

Ph.D., Economics, University of Tübingen, 2023
Visiting Researcher, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, 2022
Visiting Researcher, Brandeis University, 2021
M.Sc., International Economics, University of Tübingen, 2018
B.Sc., Economics, University of Münich, 2016

Publications

"News and Uncertainty about COVID-19: Survey Evidence and Short-run Economic Impact," with Keith Kuester, Gernot J. Müller and Raphael Schoenle, Journal of Monetary Economics, 129: S35-S51, (2022)

"The Lockdown Effect: A Counterfactual for Sweden," with Benjamin Born and Gernot Müller, PLOS ONE, 16(4), (2021)

Working Papers

"Consumption Categories, Household Attention, and Inflation Expectations: Implications for
Optimal Monetary Policy,"
 (2022)

"Big News: Climate Change and the Business Cycle," with Gernot Müller and Raphael Schoenle, (2022)

"Greater Than the Sum of its Parts: Aggregate vs. Aggregated Inflation Expectations," with Edward Knotek, Kristian Myrseth, Robert Rich, Raphael Schoenle and Michael Weber, (2022)

"The Pandemic, Public Policy, and Behavioral Adjustment," with Gernot Müller and Wilhelm Kohler, (2023)

Work in Progress

"Inflation Preferences", with Hassan Afrouzi, Gernot J. M¨uller, Kristian O. Myrseth, Romanos Priftis and Raphael S. Schoenle