Damjan Pfajfar

Current Employment: 09/2008 – present Assistant Professor, University of Tilburg, Department of Economics 09/2008 – present Research Fellow, CentER, University of Tilburg 10/2008 – present Research Fellow, European Banking Center, University of Tilburg Education: PhD Economics, University of Cambridge, 2008 Thesis title: “Heterogeneous Expectations in Macroeconomics” Supervisor: Seppo Honkapohja, Research Advisor: Hashem Pesaran Examiners: Cars Hommes and Chryssi Giannitsarou MSc Economics, University of Warwick, 2003 BSc Economics, University of Ljubljana, 2002 Socrates/Erasmus exchange student, University of Glasgow, 2001/2002 Research Fields: Primary fields: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics Secondary fields: Applied Econometrics, Quantitative Methods, and Experimental Economics Working Papers: “Credit Market Distortions, Asset Prices and Monetary Policy” (with Emiliano Santoro) “Asymmetries in Inflation Expectation Formation Across Demographic Groups” (with Emiliano Santoro) “Experimental Evidence on Inflation Expectation Formation” (with Blaž Žakelj) “Formation of Rationally Heterogeneous Expectations” “Heterogeneity, Learning and Information Stickiness in Inflation Expectations” (with Emiliano Santoro) “Determinacy, Stock Market Dynamics and Monetary Policy Inertia” (with Emiliano Santoro) Research Papers in Progress: “Expectations and Monetary Policy Design” (with Blaž Žakelj) “Asset Prices, Credit Channel and Optimal Monetary Policy” (with Emiliano Santoro) “Monetary Policy and Inflation Persistence with Imperfect Credit Markets” (with Pierre-Richard Agénor and George Bratsiotis) “Providing Microfoundations for VARs” (with Eran Guse) “Estimating Recursive Learning in Macroeconomic Model with Survey Data” (with Eran Guse) “Adaptive Learning and Credit Cycles” (with Emiliano Santoro and Michele Berardi) “On the Minimum State Variable RE Solutions” (with Emiliano Santoro and Michele Berardi) “Durable Goods, Collateral Constraints and Learning” (with Emiliano Santoro and Ivan Petrella) “Heterogeneous Expectations, Adaptive Learning and Monetary Policy Transmission Mechanism” (with Alessandro Flamini)

Primary fields: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics Secondary fields: Applied Econometrics, Quantitative Methods, and Experimental Economics