This is the personal website of André Meier CURRENT POSITION Resident Representative International Monetary Fund Hong Kong SAR Contact: andre.meier@eui.eu

PRIOR PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Since Oct. 2005	International Monetary Fund, Washington DC
	Country experience: China, Cyprus, Hong Kong SAR, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Mauritania, Norway, Singapore, Turkey, United Kingdom
June – Sept. 2004	Intern in the Office of the Chief Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, London
June – Sept. 2002	Junior Consultant at the European Investment Bank, Luxembourg
Aug. 1995 – June 1997	Traineeship Program (Ausbildung zum Bankkaufmann) at WestLB Düsseldorf

PAPERS & PUBLICATIONS

“Sovereign Risk, Fiscal Policy, and Macroeconomic Stability”; joint with Giancarlo Corsetti, Keith Kuester, and Gernot Mueller; IMF Working Paper
12/33 (January 2012)

“Fiscal Policy Transmission with Spending Reversals”; joint with Giancarlo Corsetti and Gernot Mueller; revised version accepted for publication in
the Review of Economics and Statistics

“Up or Down”; Finance & Development, March 2011

“Still Minding the Gap—Inflation Dynamics during Episodes of Persistent Large Output Gaps”; IMF Working Paper 10/189, August 2010

“Debt Consolidation and Fiscal Stabilization of Deep Recessions”; joint with Giancarlo Corsetti, Keith Kuester, and Gernot Mueller; American
Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 100 (2), May 2010

“Cross-Border Spillovers from Fiscal Stimulus”; joint with Giancarlo Corsetti and Gernot Mueller; International Journal of Central Banking 6 (1),
March 2010; earlier version published as CEPR Discussion Paper 7535

“The Three-Hundred-Year Low”; joint with Simon Willson; Finance & Development, September 2009

“Panacea, Curse, or Nonevent?”; Unconventional Monetary Policy in the United Kingdom”; IMF Working Paper 09/163, August 2009

“Fiscal Stimulus with Spending Reversals”; joint with Giancarlo Corsetti and Gernot Mueller, IMF Working Paper 09/106, May 2009

“What Accounts for the Change in U.S. Fiscal Policy Transmission?”; joint with Florin Bilbiie and Gernot Mueller, Journal of Money, Credit and

Banking 40 (7), October 2008 (previously published as European Central Bank Working Paper 582)

“Smooth It Like the ‘Joneses’? Estimating Peer-Group Effects in Intertemporal Consumption Choice”; joint with Juergen Maurer, Economic

Journal, 118 (527), March 2008

“Safe to Save Less? Assessing the Recent Decline in Turkey’s Private Saving Rate”; IMF Selected Issues Paper 07/364

“Fleshing out the Monetary Transmission Mechanism: Output Composition and the Role of Financial Frictions”; joint with Gernot Mueller, Journal

of Money, Credit and Banking, 38 (8), December 2006 (previously published as European Central Bank Working Paper 500)

“Do the ‘Joneses’ Really Matter? Peer-group vs. Correlated Effects in Intertemporal Consumption Choice”; joint with Juergen Maurer, Institute for

Fiscal Studies Working Paper 15/2005

“How Big is the Bias in Estimated Impulse Responses? A Horse Race between VAR and Local Projection Methods”

“Private Sector Participation in Infrastructure”; joint with Gordon Hughes, Zbigniew Kominek and Toshiaki Sakatsume), published as Chapter 4 of

the EBRD Transition Report 2004

EDUCATION

2001 – 2005	European University Institute, Florence, Ph.D. in Economics
2003	New York University, Visiting Scholar at the Dept. of Economics
1997 – 2001	University of Bonn, Studies of Economics (Diplom-Volkswirt)
1999 – 2000	University of California at Berkeley, Visiting Student, Ph.D. Program in Economics

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Last Update: January 25, 2012