Biography:
Peter Claeys is a Visiting Professor at the Department of Economics of the College of Europe, and the Universiteit Gent. He obtained his Ph.D. at the European University Institute, and after a Marie Curie Fellowship at AQR, became an Assistant Professor at the Universitat de Barcelona.
His work focuses on the econometric modelling of various aspects of fiscal policy, including the macroeconomic effects of government spending, fiscal consolidation, spillover of budget decisions, fiscal federalism and more generally the interaction between monetary and fiscal policies.
He has worked on various projects on fiscal policy for the European Commission, the ECB, the OECD, the European Parliament, and the Spanish and Swedish government.
He teaches in the Erasmus Mundus Master on Globalisation and European Integration, and is a Research Fellow at the United Nations University.
Areas of interest:
International macroeconomics, public economics, fiscal federalism, fiscal consolidation, interaction between monetary and fiscal policy, fiscal policy and redistribution.
Skills:
Econometrics software: excellent knowledge of Matlab, RATS, Stata, Eviews, Jmulti, PcGive. General computing skills (Word, Excell, Adobe, PowerPoint, web design).
