Researcher Profiles Benjamin Beckers

Economic Research Department
Current research interests: applied macroeconomics, monetary policy evaluation, structural time series modelling
Contact: beckersb@rba.gov.au
Ben's research focuses primarily on quantifying and understanding the channels through which monetary policy operates, with a current emphasis on the drivers and role of inflation expectations. He holds a PhD in Economics from the Freie University Berlin and a Masters in Quantitative Economics from Kiel University, Germany.
Research Papers
- ‘Inflation Expectations in Australia’ Australian Economic Review, 55(1).
- ‘Credit Spreads, Monetary Policy and the Price Puzzle’ RBA Research Discussion Paper No 2020-01.
- ‘The Effect of Mortgage Debt on Consumer Spending: Evidence from Household-level Data’ RBA Research Discussion Paper No 2019-06.
- ‘Risk Forecasting in (T)GARCH Models with Uncorrelated Dependent Innovations’ Quantitative Finance, 17(1), pp 121–137.