I am a Research Economist at the European Commission, JRC. I obtained the Ph.D. degree from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) under the supervision of Prof. Albert Marcet. I have also held an assistant researcher position at Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREi) and a teaching position within the Master in Macroeconomic Policy and Financial Markets at BSE.
My research focuses on understanding the links between the macroeconomy and financial markets and how expectations shape asset price cycles.
On the policy side, I am part of the team delivering support for the European economic semester. We provide economic insights on the drivers of the macroeconomic environment through the lens of state of the art DSGE models.
Research interests: macro-finance, monetary policy, learning, behavioral finance, asset pricing, time series and investments.
Contact: adrian.ifrim at barcelonagse.eu
Last updated: January 2024
Latest research activity
2025
New WP coming soon, Persistent Global Growth Differences and Euro Area Adjustment: Real Activity, Trade, and the Exchange Rate, (with Kollmann, R., Pfeiffer, P., Ratto, M., Roeger, W.)
Update of the paper Heterogenous Expectations and Wealth Inequality (with Belda, P., Heineken, J.) coming soon
Conferences and Presentations
"Barcelona Summer Forum, AI and Learning the Macroeconomy Workshop"
"Annual Scientific Conference of Romanian Academic Economists from Abroad, ERMAS"
"Global Shocks, Macroeconomic Spillovers and Geopolitical Risks: Policy Challenges" jointly organized by the European Commission, the Journal of International Economics, and CEPR.
2024
News!
November 2024, research visit at CREi-UPF Barcelona
Scheduled Presentations:
January 2024, research visit at CREi-UPF Barcelona
new working paper (jointly with Stefan Hohberger, Beatrice Pataracchia and Marco Ratto) : Myopic behavior in macroeconomic models: empirical evidence from the US
updated version (and name) of the paper Expectation-driven Wealth effects
updated draft of Sentimental Discount Rate Shocks
2023
2022