Professional Experience

• • Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

  • 2008 - present

• • Lecturer

    Study Center Gerzensee

  • 2007 - 2008

• • Consultant

    McKinsey & Company

  • 2000 - 2001

• • Trainee

    Deutsche Bank

  • 1994 - 1996

Publications

• Kurmann, Andre, and Elmar Mertens (2013). "Stock Prices, News, and Economic Fluctuations: Comment," Finance and Economics Discussion Papers 2013-08. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
• Mertens, Elmar (2012). "Are Spectral Estimators Useful for Long-Run Restrictions in SVARs?" Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, vol. 36, no. 12, pp. 1831-1844.
• Mertens, Elmar (2010). "Structural Shocks and the Comovements between Output and Interest Rates," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, vol. 34, no. 6, pp. 1171-1186.
• Bacchetta, Philippe, Elmar Mertens, and Eric van Wincoop (2009). "Predictability in Financial Markets: What do Survey Expectations Tell Us?" Journal of International Money and Finance, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 406-426.
• Mertens, Elmar (2011). "Measuring the Level and Uncertainty of Trend Inflation," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2011-42. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
• Mertens, Elmar (2010). "Are Spectral Estimators Useful for Implementing Long-Run Restrictions in SVARs?" Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2010-09. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
• Mertens, Elmar (2010). "Managing Beliefs about Monetary Policy Under Discretion," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2010-11. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
• Mertens, Elmar (2010). "Structural Shocks and the Comovements between Output and Interest Rates," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2010-21. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).

Presentations

• conference

  June 29, 2012

  Computing in Economics and Finance, Prague

  Measuring the Level and Uncertainty of Trend Inflation

• conference

  July 10, 2012

  NBER Summer Insittute, Forecasting & Empirical Methods in Macroeconomics & Finance Workshop

  Measuring the Level and Uncertainty of Trend Inflation

• conference

  September 6, 2012

  31st CIRET Conference, Vienna

  Measuring the Level and Uncertainty of Trend Inflation

• conference

  September 21, 2012

  8th Dynare Conference, Swiss National Bank, Zurich

  Managing Beliefs about Monetary Policy under Discretion

• discussion

  October 5, 2012

  Conference on Real-Time Data Analysis, Methods , and Applications; Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

  Discussion of Nason & Smith's "Reverse Filtering U.S. Inflation with Sticky Professional Forecasts"

Other Activities