Dr. Oliver Grimm

Dr. Oliver Grimm
Macroeconomics: Innovation and Policy
ZUE D 12
Zürichbergstrasse 18
8032 Zürich
SWITZERLAND

Phone: +41 44 632 87 22
Fax: +41 44 632 18 30
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1. Research Interests

Area M: Monetary and Fiscal Policies

• Monetary and Fiscal Policies in a Monetary Union,
• New Keynesian Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Models,
• Fiscal Policy under Fixed Exchange Rate Regimes,
• Credibility and Stability of Exchange Rate Systems (especially of Currency Board Systems),
• Fiscal Policy and Debt Management.

Area M: Banking System

• Banking Crisis and Bank Regulation.

2. Publications

• The Enlargement of the European Monetary Union (with Switgard Feuerstein), Bank and Credit, National Bank of Poland, pp. 3-20, February 2007.
• Kommunikation und Transparenz in der Geldpolitik (with Jürgen Siebke), in: Systeme Monetärer Steuerung:
  Analyse und Vergleich Geldpolitischer Strategien, Schriften zu Ordnungsfragen der Wirtschaft, Band 86, Lucius & Lucius, Stuttgart, 2007, S. 267-290.
• On the Credibility of Currency Boards (with Switgard Feuerstein), Review of International Economics, 14(5), pp. 818-835, November 2006.
• The Road to Adopting the Euro (with Switgard Feuerstein), Intereconomics - Review of European Economic Policy, 39(2), pp. 76-83, March/April 2004.
• Die Osterweiterung der Europäischen Währungsunion (with Switgard Feuerstein and Jürgen Siebke), in: Stabilisierungsprobleme in der Marktwirtschaft, Hrsg: Dieter Cassel, Herbert Müller und H. Jörg Thieme, Verlag Vahlen, S. 163-182, München, 2003.

3. Working Papers

• Countercyclical Taxation, Simple Rules and Price Dispersion (with Eric Mayer), Würzburg Economic Paper No. 78, June 2008 and CER-ETH Working Paper No. 08/88.
• On the Nature of Conflicts between Central Banks and National Governments in a Monetary Union (with Stefan Ried), Mimeo, April 2008.
• Macroeconomic Policy in a Heterogenous Monetary Union (with Stefan Ried), SFB 649 Discussion Paper 2007-028, Humboldt University of Berlin, and CER-ETH Working Paper No. 07/67.
• Fiscal Discipline and Stability under Currency Board Systems, Center of Economic Research, CER-ETH Working Paper No. 07/66.
• On the Credibility of Currency Boards (with Switgard Feuerstein, early version), CeGE Discussion Paper No. 36, Center for Globalization and Europeanization of the Economy, Göttingen 2004.

4. Education and Experience