{"id":444,"date":"2012-06-11T16:06:50","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T14:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christophbertsch.com\/?page_id=444"},"modified":"2025-10-25T15:30:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T13:30:19","slug":"short-bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.christophbertsch.com\/?page_id=444","title":{"rendered":"Short Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am Senior Economist at the <a title=\"Research Division of Sveriges Riksbank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.riksbank.se\/en-gb\/about-the-riksbank\/the-tasks-of-the-riksbank\/research\/economists-at-the-research-division\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Research Division of Sveriges Riksbank<\/a> and joined in 2013. Prior to that I was Research Associate at the <a title=\"UCL Department of Economics\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/economics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UCL Department of Economics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Education<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I earned my PhD in Economics at the <a title=\"EUI Economics Department\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eui.eu\/ECO\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EUI Economics Department<\/a>. The title of my thesis is &#8220;Three Essays on Financial Markets and Banking&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I started my studies in economics at the <a title=\"University of Mannheim\" href=\"http:\/\/www2.vwl.uni-mannheim.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of Mannheim<\/a> where I graduated as &#8220;Diplom Volkswirt&#8221; in 2007. In the academic year 2005\/2006 I was visiting student at the PhD program in economics at the <a title=\"University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.econ.ucla.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Teaching<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was lecturer for the 3rd year Economics course Industrial Economics II: Dynamic Industrial Organization (ECON3013) at the University College London in 2011\/2012 and 2012\/2013.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Professional Experience<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>08\/2024-12\/2024: Research sabbatical at Institute for Finance &amp; Statistics, Bonn University, Germany<br \/>\n09\/2019-12\/2019: Visiting Research Fellow, Central Bank Research Fellowship Programme, BIS Head Office, Switzerland<\/p>\n<p><strong>Achievements &amp; Fellowships<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2012: Fellowship Stiftung Geld und W\u00e4hrung<br \/>\n11\/2010 &#8211; 10\/2011: 4th year EUI grant and DAAD \u201cForschungs- und Kongresskostenpauschale\u201d<br \/>\n09\/2007 &#8211; 08\/2010:\u00a0DAAD scholarship for doctoral studies at EUI, Florence<br \/>\n09\/2005 &#8211; 06\/2006:\u00a0DAAD-ISAP scholarship and McKinsey&amp;Company scholarship (both for the exchange year at UCLA)<br \/>\n01\/2004 \u2013 12\/2011:\u00a0Scholarship of e-fellow.net career network<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other Professional Experience (research and teaching related)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>07\/2011-09\/2011: Summer visiting researcher at the Magyar Nemzeti Bank, Budapest, Hungary<br \/>\n09\/2006-12\/2006: Internship at the Deutsche Bundesbank Research Center, Frankfurt, Germany<br \/>\n10\/2004-06\/2005:\u00a0Student teaching assistant for Macroeconomics I and II at the University of Mannheim, Germany<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am Senior Economist at the Research Division of Sveriges Riksbank and joined in 2013. Prior to that I was Research Associate at the UCL Department of Economics. Education I earned my PhD in Economics at the EUI Economics Department. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christophbertsch.com\/?page_id=444\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-444","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christophbertsch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christophbertsch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christophbertsch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christophbertsch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christophbertsch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":48,"href":"https:\/\/www.christophbertsch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1469,"href":"https:\/\/www.christophbertsch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/444\/revisions\/1469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christophbertsch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}