Christian K. Wolf

Christian K. Wolf is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he also serves as a Faculty Research Fellow. He is affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), participating in both the Economic Fluctuations and Growth Program and the Monetary Economics Program. His research bridges macroeconomics and econometrics, with a particular focus on methodological approaches for policy analysis.

Wolf's research interests span macroeconomics, econometrics, monetary policy, fiscal policy, time series analysis, and structural modeling. He has made significant contributions to understanding the relationship between local projection methods and vector autoregressions, fiscal deficit financing mechanisms, and the evaluation of monetary policy counterfactuals. His work often explores the connections between micro-founded models and empirical evidence, particularly examining how household heterogeneity affects macroeconomic dynamics.

His recent publications reveal a strong focus on methodological questions in macroeconometrics and substantive questions about fiscal-monetary policy interactions. Wolf frequently collaborates with leading macroeconomists including George-Marios Angeletos, Mikkel Plagborg-Møller, and Alisdair McKay. His work appears in top economics journals and NBER working papers, demonstrating both theoretical rigor and practical relevance for policy analysis.

Wolf maintains an active research profile with numerous publications in the past few years, covering diverse topics from the equivalence between interest rate cuts and stimulus payments to how demand composition affects economic recoveries. His personal website at christiankwolf.com serves as a hub for his academic work and publications.