Pelin Ilbas Official web page
Currently working at the Norges Bank (Central Bank of Norway)
as Advisor to the Research Department, Monetary Policy Wing
Thesis Title:
Optimal Monetary Policy Design in Dynamic Macroeconomics
Ph.D. in Economics (obtained: 15 September, 2008)
working group of International Economics
Advisor: Prof. Hans Dewachter
Co-Advisor: Raf Wouters
Contact
Catholic University of Leuven
Faculty of Business and Economics
Email: pelin.ilbas@gmail.com
Publications
Revealing the Preferences of the US Federal Reserve
(forthcoming, Journal of Applied Econometrics)
(Norges Bank Working Paper 2008/21 version)
Estimation of Monetary Policy Preferences in a Forward-Looking Model: a Bayesian Approach (forthcoming, International Journal of Central Banking)
a Bayesian Approach
(forthcoming, International Journal of Central Banking)
(National Bank of Belgium Working Paper 129 version)
Working Papers
Optimal Monetary Policy Rules for the Euro Area in a DSGE Framework
CES Discussion Paper 06.13, Catholic University of Leuven
Conference presentations
Workshop on Optimal Monetary Policy
Norges Bank, Oslo, November 21-22 2008
14th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance
University of Sorbonne Paris, France, June 26-28 2008
Paris School of Economics, France, September 10-11 2007
11th ZEI International Summer School on Monetary Theory and Policy
University of Bonn, Germany, July 2-10 2007
2007 North American Summer Meetings of the Econometric Society
Duke University in Durham, USA, June 21-24 2007
13th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance
HEC Montréal, Canada, June 14-16 2007
Money, Macro and Finance Research Group 38th ANNUAL CONFERENCE
University of York, UK, September 13-15 2006
2006 Midwest Macroeconomics Meetings
Washington University in St. Louis, USA, 5-7 May 2006
Seminar presentations
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Madrid, January 2010)
Norges Bank (Oslo, January 2008)
University of Mannheim (Mannheim, November 2007)
National Bank of Belgium (Brussels,October 2006 and March 2007)
Catholic University of Leuven (Leuven, March 2005 and April 2006)
Teaching
International Economics - Lectures and Tutorials
Methods of Economic Research - Lectures and Tutorials
Foreign Trade Policy - Lectures
Undergaduate and Master Theses Supervision (professors in charge: H. Dewachter and P. De Grauwe)
Research Interests
Optimal Monetary Policy, Bayesian Inference and uncertainty in Dynamic General Equilibrium Models
Job Preferences
Policy oriented research
Europe and North America