Klaus Adam

Klaus Adam is Professor of Economics at University College London (UCL). He previously held professorships at the University of Mannheim (on leave), University of Oxford & Nuffield College and also worked for the European Central Bank. He is a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the German Ministry of Finance, Research Professor at the Deutsche Bundes­bank, and associate editor for the Journal of Monetary Economics.

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What's new? 

Latest #WeekInEurope Podcast (July 11, 2024): 

Unpacking French Election Results, with Hadrien Camatte (Natixis)

New working papers: 

The Optimal Inflation Target: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Policy
, with Henning Weber, forthcoming in: Handbook of Inflation, June 2024

Inflation Distorts Relative Prices: Theory and Evidence, with Andrey Alexandrov and Henning Weber, updated May 2024

Overconfidence in Private Information Explains Biases in Professional Forecasts, with Pei Kuang and Shihan Xie, preliminary version, April 2024
 

Markups and Marginal Costs over the Firm Life: Implications for the Optimal Inflation Target, with Tobias Renkin and Gabriel Zuellig, preliminary version

Just published: 


Subjective Housing Price Expectations, Falling Natural Rates and the Optimal Inflation Target, with Oliver Pfaeuti and Timo Reinelt,  forthcoming in: Journal of Monetary Economics

Discussion of "Who Bears the Costs of Inflation? Euro Area Households and the 2021-2022 Shock" by F. Pallotti, G. Paz-Pardo, J. Slacalek, O. Tristani and G.L. Violante, forthcoming: Journal of Monetary Economics

Estimating the Optimal Inflation Target from Trends in Relative Prices, with Henning Weber, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Vol.15 (3): 1-42, 2023

Expectations Data in Asset Pricing
, with Stefan Nagel, Chapter 16 in the Handbook of Economic Expectations, 2023, pre-print version here


The Case for a Positive Euro Area Inflation Target: Evidence from France, Germany and Italy, Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 132, November 2022, online appendix here