Roland Meeks

Last Updated: August 04, 2023

Roland is at the Monetary and Capital Markets Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) where he works on issues related to monetary and macroprudential policies. Roland's research interests span macroeconomics, banking, and econometrics. His work has been published in leading academic journals including the Journal of the American Statistical Association, the Journal of Monetary Economics, and the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. He has previously held positions as Senior Economist at the Monetary Policy Outlook Division of the Bank of England, lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Economics at the University of Essex, Research Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. He has been a visiting economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, a visiting scholar at Stanford University, and an equity strategist at Crédit Lyonnais Laing Securities, London. He holds a D.Phil. in economics from the University of Oxford.

Email: RMEEKS@imf.org

Personal WebPage: https://sites.google.com/site/rolandmeeks/

Education:

Nuffield College, Oxford D.Phil.


Previous Experience:

Senior Economist, Monetary Policy Outlook Division Bank of England 2014-2018

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics University of Essex 2012-2014

Senior Economist, Risk Assessment Division Bank of England 2009-2012

Research Economist, Economics Department Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas 2007-2009


Awards and Honors:

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Oxford

University of Oxford, Edgeworth Prize for an outstanding D.Phil. thesis


Country work or Mission Assignment:

Germany, Financial Sector Assessment Program. Macroprudential Policy Expert. 2022

Israel, Technical Assistance. Monetary Policy Expert. 2021

Republic of Korea, Financial Sector Assessment Program. Macroprudential Policy Expert. 2020

Kingdom of Morocco, Technical Assistance. Monetary Policy Expert. 2020


IMF Career:

Monetary and Macroprudential Policy Division, Monetary and Capital Markets Department (2018-present)


Field of Expertise:

Monetary Policy

Banking

Macro-Financial Issues

Economic Modeling

Roland is at the Monetary and Capital Markets Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) where he works on issues related to monetary and macroprudential policies. Roland's research interests span macroeconomics, banking, and econometrics. His work has been published in leading academic journals including the Journal of the American Statistical Association, the Journal of Monetary Economics, and the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. He has previously held positions as Senior Economist at the Monetary Policy Outlook Division of the Bank of England, lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Economics at the University of Essex, Research Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. He has been a visiting economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, a visiting scholar at Stanford University, and an equity strategist at Crédit Lyonnais Laing Securities, London. He holds a D.Phil. in economics from the University of Oxford.

Email: RMEEKS@imf.org

Personal WebPage: https://sites.google.com/site/rolandmeeks/

Education:

Nuffield College, Oxford D.Phil.


Previous Experience:

Senior Economist, Monetary Policy Outlook Division Bank of England 2014-2018

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics University of Essex 2012-2014

Senior Economist, Risk Assessment Division Bank of England 2009-2012

Research Economist, Economics Department Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas 2007-2009


Awards and Honors:

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Oxford

University of Oxford, Edgeworth Prize for an outstanding D.Phil. thesis


Country work or Mission Assignment:

Germany, Financial Sector Assessment Program. Macroprudential Policy Expert. 2022

Israel, Technical Assistance. Monetary Policy Expert. 2021

Republic of Korea, Financial Sector Assessment Program. Macroprudential Policy Expert. 2020

Kingdom of Morocco, Technical Assistance. Monetary Policy Expert. 2020


IMF Career:

Monetary and Macroprudential Policy Division, Monetary and Capital Markets Department (2018-present)


Field of Expertise:

Monetary Policy

Banking

Macro-Financial Issues

Economic Modeling

IMF Books and Working Papers:

Negative Interest Rates , Departmental Paper No 2021/003 , March 03, 2021

Optimal Simple Objectives for Monetary Policy when Banks Matter , Working Paper No. 2020/244 , November 13, 2020

Other Published Materials

Negative Interest Rates: Taking Stock of the Experience So Far

Optimal Simple Objectives for Monetary Policy when Banks Matter

Germany: Financial Sector Assessment Program Technical Note—Macroprudential Policy Framework And Tools

Republic of Korea: Financial Sector Assessment Program-Technical Note-Macroprudential Policy Frameworks and Tools

Publications in Journals (Refereed)

"The dynamics of economic functions: Modelling and forecasting the yield curve", Journal of the American Statistical Association 103(484), December 2008: 1419-1437.

"Do credit market shocks drive output fluctuations? Evidence from corporate spreads and defaults", Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 36, April 2012: 568-584.

"Stationary and nonstationary behavior of the term structure: A nonparametric characterization", Applied Mathematical Finance 20(2), April 2013: 137-166.

"Capital regulation and the macroeconomy: Empirical evidence and macroprudential policy", European Economic Review 95, June 2017: 125-141.

"Shadow banks and macroeconomic instability", Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 49(7), October 2017: 1483-1516.

"Monetary and macroprudential policies under rules and discretion", Economics Letters 170, September 2018: 104-108.

"Optimal simple objectives for monetary policy when banks matter", European Economic Review 135, 2021.

"Heterogeneous beliefs and the Phillips curve", Journal of Monetary Economics (forthcoming)

Other Published Materials

"Financial crisis casts shadow over commercial real estate", Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Economic Letter 3(12), December 2008.

"Adapting central bank operations to a hotter world: Reviewing some options", NGFS 2021 (contributor)