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Work Experience
11/2004 – present	Economist, Economic Policy and Research Division, De Nederlandsche Bank (Dutch Central Bank), Amsterdam.
03/2001 – 10/2004	Research Fellow, Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI), Bonn.
05/2002 – 07/2002	Intern, Fiscal Policy Division, European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt.
09/1996 – 10/1996	Intern, Project on the European Monetary Union, Department for Research and Consulting, Konrad-Adenauer Foundation, St. Augustin.

Education
2004	Ph.D. in Economics, Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI), University of Bonn. Principal Advisor: Prof. Dr. Jürgen von Hagen.
2000	Diploma (MSc) in Economics, University of Bonn.
1998-1999	Exchange student at the Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration.

Publications
Publications in Refereed Journals
o "Fool the markets? Sovereign Risk Premia, Fiscal Transparency and Creative Accounting" (with Guntram Wolff), Scottish Journal of Political Economy (forthcoming).
o "Reageren consumenten anders op vermogensverliezen dan op winsten?" (with Robert-Paul Berben and Mauro Mastrogiacomo), Tijdschrift voor Politieke Ekonomie, 2006, Volume 27.
o "Euribor Futures Market: Efficiency and the Impact of ECB Policy Announcements” (with Jürgen von Hagen), International Finance, 2004, Volume 7.

Working Papers
o "Forecasting Financial Stability in the Banking and Insurance Sector" (with Andreas Pick), forthcoming.
o "Did fiscal policy makers know what they were doing? Reassessing fiscal policy with real time data" (with Andrew Hughes Hallett and John Lewis), CEPR Working Paper No. 6758, March 2008; DNB Working Paper No. 169, April 2008.
o "The Forward Premium Puzzle only Emerges Gradually" (with Jürgen von Hagen, Casper G. de Vries), DNB Working Paper No. 125, January 2007.
o "Households' Response to Wealth Changes: Do Gains or Losses make a Difference?" (with Robert-Paul Berben, Mauro Mastrogiacomo), DNB Working Paper No. 90, February 2006.
o “Sovereign Risk Premia in the European Government Bond Market” (with Jürgen von Hagen, Ludger Schuknecht), ECB Working Paper No. 369, June 2004.

Presentations
Conference Presentations
06/2008 Western Economic Association, Honolulu.
05/2008 Austrian Economic Association, Vienna.
12/2007 DIW Macroeconometric Workshop, Berlin.
10/2007 9^th Infer Annual Conference, Loughborough.
06/2007 Canadian Economic Association, Halifax.
03/2007 DNB Workshop on “Insurance Research” , Amsterdam.
12/2006 50^th European Conference of the Econom(etr)ics Community, Rotterdam.
08/2006 61^th European Meeting of the Economic Society (ESEM), Vienna.
05/2006 10^th International Conference: “Macroeconomic Theory and Policy”, Univ. of Crete.
04/2006 CESifo Area Conference on Public Sector Economics, Munich.
08/2005 20^th Congress of the European Economic Association, Univ. of Amsterdam.
05/2005 9^th International Conference: “Macroeconomic Theory and Policy”, Univ. of Crete.
05/2004 International Bond and Debt Market Integration, Trinity College, Univ. of Dublin.
09/2003 Summer School on "EMU: Current State and Future Prospects", Univ. of Crete.
06/2003 Workshop on “Monetary Policy and Money Markets”, New York Fed.
03/2003 CEPR Conference on “Empirical Macro Models of the Euro Economy”, Bonn.

Invited Presentations
06/2008 European Central Bank, Fiscal Policy Division, Frankfurt.
03/2008 Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam.
03/2008 University of Amsterdam, Lunch seminar, Amsterdam.
03/2007 ABN Amro Headquarter, Workshop on “Is risk mispriced in financial markets?”, Amsterdam.
11/2006 European commission, Lunch seminar at DG ECFIN, Brussels.
02/2006 University of Münster, Research Seminar.
10/2005 CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, The Hague.
07/2004 De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam.
04/2004 Deutsche Bundesbank, Economics Department, Frankfurt.
12/2003 Deutsche Bundesbank, Money, Credit and Capital Markets Division, Frankfurt.
12/2002 European Central Bank, Fiscal Policy Division.