Emanuel Moench

Emanuel has been Professor of Financial and Monetary Economics at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management since December 2021. He further acts as Co-Director of the Centre for Central Banking and is Associate Editor at the International Journal of Central Banking.  

Background

Prior to joining the Frankfurt School, Emanuel was the Head of Research of Deutsche Bundesbank and Professor of Economics at Goethe University Frankfurt, after holding a position as Research Officer at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. His research focuses on the intersection of macroeconomics and finance and has been published in the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, and the Journal of Monetary Economics among others. He received the Journal of Finance’s Amundi Smith Breeden First Prize in 2015 and the European Economic Association’s Young Economist Award in 2008. Emanuel obtained a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Economics from Humboldt University Berlin and an M.A. in Statistics from ENSAE.

Research interests

• Monetary policy and financial markets
• Macroeconomic and other drivers of government bond yields 
• Expectation formation of households and professional forecasters
• Economic impacts of natural disasters and the green transition