Pelin Ilbas Official web page
From 01/10/2008 on I will be working at the Norges Bank (Central Bank of Norway) as Senior Advisor to the Research Department, Monetary Policy Wing
Thesis Title:
Optimal Monetary Policy Design in Dynamic Macroeconomics
Ph.D. in Economics
working group of International Economics
Advisor: Prof. Hans Dewachter
Co-Advisor: Raf Wouters
Contact
Catholic University of Leuven
Faculty of Business and Economics
Center for Economic Studies (CES)
Naamsestraat 69, 3000 Leuven (Belgium)
Phone: ++32 (0)16 32 68 35
Fax: ++32 (0)16 32 67 96
Email: pelin.ilbas@econ.kuleuven.be
Curriculum Vitae
Work in Progress
Forecasting Performance of a DSGE Model when Monetary Policy is Optimal
(joint with David De Antonio Liedo)
Stability Constraints on Optimal Monetary Policy under Adaptive Learning
(joint with Hans Dewachter and Raf Wouters)
Working Papers
REVEALING THE PREFERENCES OF THE US FEDERAL RESERVE (submitted) (updated version)
(updated version)
Pelin Ilbas
(2008 JOB MARKET PAPER)
Estimation of Monetary Policy Preferences in a Forward-Looking Model: a Bayesian Approach (revise and resubmit)
a Bayesian Approach (revise and resubmit)
NBB Working Paper 129 National Bank of Belgium
Optimal Monetary Policy Rules for the Euro Area in a DSGE Framework
CES Discussion Paper 06.13, Catholic University of Leuven
Conference presentations
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
University of Mannheim (Mannheim, November 2007)
National Bank of Belgium (Brussels, March 2007)
National Bank of Belgium (Brussels, October 2006)
Catholic University of Leuven (Leuven, April 2006)
Catholic University of Leuven (Leuven, March 2005)
Teaching
International Economics - Tutorials
Methods of Economic Research - Tutorials
Undergaduate Theses Supervision (professors in charge: H. Dewachter and P. De Grauwe)
Research Interests
Optimal Monetary Policy, General Equilibrium Framework, Bayesian Inference, Monetary Economics, parameter and
model uncertainty, learning
Job Preferences
Central Banks (policy oriented research)
Europe and North America
Links
CB (Central Bank Websites)
SSRN (Social Science Research Network)
WoPEc (Working Papers in Economics)
EconPapers (provides access to RePEc - Research Papers in Economics)