Dr Eddie Gerba
LSE Fellow in Behavioural Macroeconomics
European Institute
Email: E.E.Gerba@lse.ac.uk
Telephone: 020 7955 6296
Room: COW G.05
Biography
Eddie Gerba is a Research Fellow in Behavioural Macroeconomics at the European Institute. He is currently working with Professor Paul de Grauwe on developing heterogeneous agent financial friction models. In particular, they are incorporating heterogeneity in the household and bank sector, and examining how regime-switching, bounded rationality, and learning shapes the financial-and business cycles. This is then used to examine the optimal degree of interactions between macroprudential and monetary policy required to maintain financial and economic stability.
Eddie’s research interests lie in the fields of macroeconomics and quantitative finance. Of particular interest to his research are financial frictions, liquidity cycles, monetary policy, financial intermediation theory, as well as risk management and systemic stability. Method-wise, his interests and experience lie in DSGE-models, bounded rationality, computational methods, time-series econometrics, and derivative pricing models.
He obtained his PhD in Economics from University of Kent in 2013, and has a background in mathematical finance and risk management (MSc Quantitative Finance, ETHZ/University of Zurich, 2007), and political economy (MSc European Studies (Research), LSE, 2009)). Moreover, he interned at Deutsche Bundesbank’s Monetary Policy Division in 2011, doing research on Fundamental Issues in Monetary Policy.
Eddie recently published Financial Cycles and Macroeconomic Stability: How Secular is the Great Recession? (Lambert Academic Publishing, 2015). A full description of the book is available here.
For a full list of Eddie's recent publications please visit his LSE Experts profile.
Click here to read Eddie's USAPP blog entry on US Fiscal-Monetary Policy Interactions.
Click here to read Eddie's USAPP blog entry 'The Fed must explicitly react to movements on the stock market if it values stability and wishes to avoid large consumption and output swings'
Teaching
EU446 The Political Economy of European Monetary Integration
EU452 Political Economy of Europe