Christiane Baumeister

Christiane Baumeister is the Lambert Family Professor of Economics and Associate Chair at the University of Notre Dame. She holds dual roles as Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Her research focuses on energy markets, monetary policy transmission, and high-frequency economic indicators, with a methodological emphasis on Bayesian inference and structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) models. She has published in top journals such as Econometrica and the American Economic Review.

• Education:
  • Ph.D., Ghent University, Belgium, 2010
  • M.Sc., Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, 2006
  • M.A., University of Siena, Italy, 2003
  • B.A., University of Bayreuth, Germany, 1999

Her research investigates dynamics of oil and energy markets, including price formation, shocks, and their macroeconomic implications. Recent work explores real-time forecasting of energy prices and granular instrumental variables for disaggregated oil market analysis. She has also addressed the role of unconventional monetary policy during the Great Recession and the impact of oil price fluctuations on global economies.

Editorial Roles: Associate Editor for the Journal of Monetary Economics and Review of Economics and Statistics.

Professional Experience: Previously served as Principal Researcher at the Bank of Canada (2015).