Christian R. Proaño

University Professor of Economics, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg

I am a Full-Professor of Economics at the University of Bamberg, Germany. I am also a fellow of the Euro Area Business Cycle Network (EABCN), a research fellow of the Centre of Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA) at the Australian National University and a member of the Computational and Financial Econometrics (CFE) Network. Additionally, I am the spokesperson of the Doctoral Research Training Group “Bounded Rationality, Heterogeneity and Network Effects” funded by the Hans-Böckler Foundation, and principal organizer of the Behavioral Macroeconomics Workshop.

My main research interests are behavioral macroeconomics, monetary policy, macrofinancial stability, international finance and income inequality.

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You can download my CV in PDF format here. Check out also the website of my professorship at the University of Bamberg here.

News

  • Feb. 2023: My paper “How Does Financial Development Affect the Growth–Inequality Nexus? Evidence from a PCHVAR Analysis” with Juan Carlos Peña and Sven Schnellbacher is out now at Industrial and Corporate Change! Check it out here.
  • Nov. 2022: My paper “Low Interest Rates, Banks’ Search-for-Yield Behavior and Financial Portfolio Management” with Benjamin Lojak and Tomasz Makarewicz is out now at the North American Journal of Finance and Economics! Check it out here.
  • Sep. 2022: My paper “Countercyclical Capital Buffers, Bank Concentration and Macrofinancial Stability in an Agent-Based Macro-Financial Framework” with Michael Neuner and Alberto Russo is out now at Advances in Complex Systems! Check it out here.
  • Sep. 2022: I have been designated Associate Editor at the Review of Keynesian Economics. Looking forward to this new challenge!
  • Jun. 2022: My paper “Capital-Constrained Loan Creation, Household Stock Market Participation and Monetary Policy in a Behavioral New Keynesian Model” with Naira Kotb is now out at the International Journal of Finance and Economics! Check it out here.
  • Mar. 2022: I will be giving a two-day course on “Expectations and Learning in Macroeconomics” at the University of Florence on March 21-22, 2022.
  • Mar. 2022: My paper “Inequality, macroeconomic performance and political polarization: a panel analysis of 20 advanced democracies” with Juan Carlos Peña and Thomas Saalfeld is now out at the Review of Social Economy! Check it out here.
  • Dec. 2021: My paper “Monetary Policy with a State-Dependent Inflation Target in a Behavioral Two-Country Monetary Union Model” with Benjamin Lojak is now out at the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control ! Check it out here.
  • Nov. 2021: Our new book “Unbalanced Growth from a Balanced Perspective” is out! Check it out here.