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
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
Publications in Journals (Refereed)
"Heterogeneous beliefs and the Phillips curve", Journal of Monetary Economics (forthcoming)
Other Published Materials
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
Publications in Journals (Refereed)
"Heterogeneous beliefs and the Phillips curve", Journal of Monetary Economics (forthcoming)