Alexander Meyer-Gohde

Alexander Meyer-Gohde

Professor of Financial Markets and Macroeconomics

Goethe University Frankfurt

Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability (IMFS)

I am a committed researcher and educator in macroeconomics with a deep-seated passion for its intersection with financial markets and numerical methods. Currently serving as a professor at the Goethe Universität Frankfurt and the Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability, my research endeavors are aimed at dissecting the methodological underpinnings of macroeconomics. My focus is on the effects of risk and uncertainty through nonlinear dynamics, market frictions, and the interaction with monetary policy and my contributions have been recognized with publications such as in the Journal of Economic Theory and grants with the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Originating from the United States, my academic journey began with a bachelor’s degree from Colorado State University and culminated in a doctorate from the Technische Universität Berlin. Having lived and worked in various German cities such as Hamburg, Berlin, and Potsdam before settling in Frankfurt in 2018, my experiences have not only shaped my academic perspective but have also fostered my blend of theoretical rigor and quantitative analysis.

My code repositories can be found on my GitHub page.

Interests
  • Macroeconomics
  • Macro-Finance
  • Econometrics
  • Numerical Methods
Education
  • Doctor rer. oec. (Ph.D. in Economics), 2010

    Technische Universität Berlin

  • MA in Economics and Management, 2006

    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

  • BA in Language, Literature & Culture, 2001

    Colorado State University

News

Research Workshop on “Numerical Methods in Macroeconomics”
I’m organizing a two half-day workshop that is bringing together researchers involved in the development and application of numerical methods in macroeconomics. Topics include solution methods, estimation methods, and machine learning applications for DSGE and other structural macroeconomic/-metric models, from linear representative agent to nonlinear and heterogeneous agent models, frequentist and Bayesian. Speakers include Harald Uhlig, Thorsten Drautzburg, Kenneth Judd, Michael Reiter, Serguei Maliar, and Marco Ratto.
Johanna Saecker
Job market candidate 2024-25. Johanna’s research focuses on the macroeconomic implications of green investment and the numerical solution of DSGE models.
Mary Tzaawa-Krenzler
Job market candidate 2024-25. Mary has a pure and applied theoretical focus on information rigidities in macroeconomics.

Teaching

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AMA 2.1
Introduction to the rigorous solution and analysis of business cycle models
AMA 2.1
Bayesian Macroeconometrics (BMAE)
Introduction to the foundations of Bayesian estimation in the context of macroeconomics
Bayesian Macroeconometrics (BMAE)
Business Cycles Theory and Policy (BCTP)
Introduction to two modern theories of business cycles, Real Business Cycle theory and New Keynesian theory.
Business Cycles Theory and Policy (BCTP)
Interdisciplinary Seminar
Seminar together with Prof. Roland Broemel (FB01), rotating topics in Monetary Policy and Banking Supervision
Interdisciplinary Seminar
Macroeconomics 2 (PMAK)
Introduction to advanced macroeconomics at the undergraduate level
Macroeconomics 2 (PMAK)
Monetary Theory and Policy (MTPO)
Introduction to the dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models used in modern monetary macroeconomics called New Keynesian models
Monetary Theory and Policy (MTPO)

Grants

Integration of interactive teaching and learning modules of Matlab in PMAK

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Goethe University Frankfurt
Professor of Financial Markets and Macroeconomics
April 2018 – Present Frankfurt, Germany
Management of chair, research, teaching at all levels BSc/MSc/PhD, participation in university self-administration
 
 
 
 
 
Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability (IMFS)
IMFS Professor
April 2018 – Present Frankfurt, Germany
Coimplementation of the “Project Monetary and Financial Stability” that is supported by the Foundation for Monetary and Financial Stability (Stiftung Geld und Währung). Its goals include raising public awareness of the importance of monetary and financial stability through the public and target group-oriented activities of the institute as well as interdiscipinary research and teaching.
 
 
 
 
 
University of Hamburg
Visiting Professor of Economics – Growth and Business Cycles
October 2014 – March 2018 Hamburg, Germany
Long-term susbtitute for the chain of Growth and Business Cycles Independent management of chair, research, teaching at all levels BSc/MSc/PhD, participation in university self-administration
 
 
 
 
 
Humboldt University of Berlin
Postdoctoral Assistant
August 2010 – September 2014 Berlin, Germany
Teaching, research, and supervision assisstance at the chair of Prof. Dr. h.c. Michael C. Burda, Ph.D.
 
 
 
 
 
Technical University of Berlin
Academic Assistant
November 2006 – July 2010 Berlin, Germany
Teaching and research assisstance at the chair of Prof. Dr. Frank Heinemann
 
 
 
 
 
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Academic Assistant
April 2006 – October 2006 Potsdam, Germany
Integrated modern dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) macroeconomic modelling components into joint climate-economic models. Research assisstance for Prof. Dr. Carlo C. Jaeger

Education

 
 
 
 
 
Technical University of Berlin
Doctor rer. oec. (Ph.D. in Economics) summa cum laude
Technical University of Berlin
October 2006 – October 2010 Berlin, Germany
Primary advisor: Prof. Dr. Frank Heinemann
Dissertation Macroeconomics and Imperfect Information
 
 
 
 
 
Humboldt University of Berlin
Master of Arts in Economics and Management Sciences
Humboldt University of Berlin
October 2002 – April 2006 Berlin, Germany
Thesis advisor: Prof. Harald Uhlig, Ph.D.
Thesis: On International Cooperation in Monetary and Fiscal Policy
 
 
 
 
 
Colorado State University
Bachelor of Arts cum laude in Language, Literature & Culture
Colorado State University
August 1999 – December 2001 Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
Minor in Economics

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