Frederik Kurcz

Frederik Kurcz is a doctoral student at the Macroeconomics Department and at the Berlin School of Economics (Freie Universität Berlin). His research studies monetary and fiscal policy transmission with household heterogeneity. His job market paper, “Quantifying the Fiscal Channel of Monetary Policy,” combines new evidence on fiscal responses to monetary shocks with a Heterogeneous Agent New Keynesian model to show how fiscal feedback shapes real effects. Recent research analyzes how ECB decisions move energy prices and shape monetary transmission. He is also part of the Forecasting and Economic Policy Team, where he contributes to the Euro Area forecast and scenario analyses. Before his doctorate, Frederik worked at the European Central Bank and at the Deutsche Bundesbank, contributing to forecasting and DSGE-based analysis. He holds an M.Sc. in Economics from the University of Tübingen and a B.Sc. from the University of Hohenheim.