Benjamin Born

Benjamin Born is Professor of Macroeconomics at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, where he is affiliated with the Centre for Central Banking. He currently serves as Research Director at the Center for Macroeconomics and Surveys of the ifo Institute, an external consultant to DG ECFIN of the European Commission, and co-editor of the European Economic Review. He is also a Research Fellow at CEPR and CESifo, serves on the European Parliament's Expert Group on Monetary Policy, and sits on the CEPR–EABCN Euro Area Business Cycle Dating Committee. He will be joining the University of Bonn as Professor of Macroeconomics in September 2025.

Dr. Born's educational background includes a PhD in Economics from the Bonn Graduate School of Economics (2011), an MSc in Econometrics and Economics from the University of York (2007), and a BA/MA in Economics from the University of Siegen (2006).

His research focuses on macroeconomics with particular emphasis on fiscal and monetary policy interactions, business cycles, and heterogeneous agent modeling. His work frequently employs sophisticated empirical methods and structural models to examine how policy interventions affect economic outcomes across different market conditions. He has made significant contributions to understanding expectation formation among firms, the transmission mechanisms of fiscal policy, and the heterogeneous effects of monetary policy.

Analysis of his recent publications reveals a strong trend toward integrating micro-founded behavioral insights into macroeconomic modeling, particularly examining how firms and households form expectations and how these expectations drive economic decisions. His work increasingly focuses on real-world policy applications, with several studies analyzing pandemic-related fiscal interventions and their transmission mechanisms. The methodological approach spans structural vector autoregressions, heterogeneous agent New Keynesian (HANK) models, and innovative use of survey data combined with machine learning techniques.

Dr. Born serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Monetary Economics and the European Economic Review, reflecting his standing in the field. His research has been published in top-tier journals including the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, and Journal of Monetary Economics.

As an educator, he teaches Macroeconomics at the Bachelor level and has previously taught Macroeconomics and Econometrics at all levels. He supervises theses in macroeconomics and applied econometrics, emphasizing empirical methods and policy-relevant research questions.