Dr. Lukas Altermatt
Assoziierter & Gast (Forscher)
Lukas Altermatt
Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät / WWZ
Wirtschaftstheorie

Assoziierter & Gast (Forscher)

WWZ / Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
Professur Wirtschaftstheorie
Peter Merian-Weg 6
4002 Basel
Schweiz

lukas.altermatt@unibas.ch

Personal website

Current position
Lecturer at the University of Essex.

Fields of interest

  •   Macroeconomics
  •   Monetary Theory
  •   Monetary Policy
  •   Financial Stability

Publications
Savings, Asset Scarcity, and Monetary Policy, Journal of Economic Theory 182, 329-359

Working paper version

Working Papers
Inside Money, Investment, and Unconventional Monetary Policy
Bank Lending, Financial Frictions, and Inside Money Creation
Liquidity, the Mundell-Tobin Effect, and the Friedman Rule, jointly with Christian Wipf, University of Bern

Work in Progress

Optimal Monetary Policy under Downward Wage Rigidities, jointly with Mohammed Aït Lahcen, University of Basel
Unemployment Risk and Credit Cycles
Money, Capital, and Financial Intermediation, jointly with Zijian Wang, University of Western Ontario
Government Debt and Monetary Policy, jointly with Cyril Monnet, University of Bern

Education
10/2014 - 01/2019: PhD in the Program ”PhD in Applied Economics”
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Aleksander Berentsen
Dissertation: “Three Essays on the Economics of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets” (summa cum laude)
2015-2016 Swiss Program for Beginning Doctoral Students, Study Center Gerzensee
2012-2014 Master of Science (MSc) in Business and Economics, Major in Monetary Economics and Financial Markets, University of Basel
2009-2012 Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Business and Economics, Major in Economics, University of Basel

Teaching
2012,2017,2018: Money, Banking and Payment Systems
2012,2013,2017: Einführung in die Spieltheorie und Experimental Economics
2016: Monetary Theory
2016: Seminar in Monetary Economics
2012: Bachelorseminar Game Theory in Business and Economics