Ricardo Reis

Professor Reis received his PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 2004. He has previously held appointments in the economics departments at Columbia University and Princeton University. Recently, he won the 2017 Banque de France / Toulouse School of Economics junior prize and the 2016 Bernacer prize. He is currently director of the Centre for Macroeconomics, a recipient of an ERC grant, and an academic consultant at the Bank of England.

Professor Reis’ research contributions are the study of sticky information and disagreement in surveys of expectations, capital misallocation as a cause for the European slump, the role of reserves on quantitative easing and central bank solvency, the dynamics of inflation and how to control it, the operation of optimal fiscal stabilizers, and the development of sovereign bond backed securities (ESBies).