Active Participants

Saleem Bahaj

UCL and Bank of England

Benedikt Ballensiefen

University of St. Gallen and World Bank Group

I am a financial economist from the World Bank Group who graduated from the University of St. Gallen / Swiss Finance Institute. My primary research interests are asset pricing, monetary policy, and market microstructure.

Matthew Baron

Cornell University

Santiago Bazdresch

Banco de México

Katharina Bergant

International Monetary Fund

Katharina is an economist in the Macro Financial division of the Research Department at the International Monetary Fund.

Huixin Bi

Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

Nina Biljanovska

International Monetary Fund

Nina Biljanovska is an Economist in the Macro-Financial Division of the Research Department. Nina's expertise and research interests lie in the field of macroprudential regulation and real estate markets. Recently, her work has focused on studying the long-run effects of the pandemic on real estate markets and the effectiveness of macroprudential regulation on macroeconomic aggregates and across the income distribution. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Goethe University Frankfurt.

Paola Boel

Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

Dennis Bonam

De Nederlandsche Bank

Diana Bonfim

Banco de Portugal, ECB and Católica Lisbon

Pablo Cuba Borda

Federal Reserve Board of Governors

Olga Briukhova

University of Zurich

Matias Ossandon Busch

Center for Latin American Monetary Studies – CEMLA

Shira Buzaglo-Baris

Bank of Israel

A research economist at the monetary division at the Bank of Israel research department.
Interested in topics regarding labor market, inequality, wage and inflation.

David Byrne

Central Bank of Ireland