Researcher Profiles Benjamin Beckers

Economic Research Department

Current research interests: applied macroeconomics, monetary policy evaluation, structural time series modelling

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

Beckers B and A Brassil (2022) ‘Inflation Expectations in Australia’ Australian Economic Review, 55(1).
Beckers B (2020) ‘Credit Spreads, Monetary Policy and the Price Puzzle’ RBA Research Discussion Paper No 2020-01.
Price F, B Beckers and G La Cava (2019) ‘The Effect of Mortgage Debt on Consumer Spending: Evidence from Household-level Data’ RBA Research Discussion Paper No 2019-06.
Beckers B, H Herwartz and M Seidel (2017) ‘Risk Forecasting in (T)GARCH Models with Uncorrelated Dependent Innovations’ Quantitative Finance, 17(1), pp 121–137.