Fabian Seyrich

Fabian Seyrich is an Assistant Professor of Macroeconomics at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and a Research Associate at DIW Berlin’s Macroeconomics Department and Forecasting Unit. He holds a PhD and Master’s from Freie Universität Berlin and a Bachelor’s from Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. His research focuses on macroeconomic policy design, particularly how household heterogeneity and expectations influence monetary/fiscal policy effectiveness and economic shocks.

Key research areas include monetary unions (e.g., Eurozone stability), fiscal policy alternatives during monetary policy constraints, and behavioral aspects of household decision-making. He has published in top journals like the Journal of Monetary Economics and Journal of Political Economy Macroeconomics.

• Education: PhD (Freie Universität Berlin/DIW), MSc (Freie Universität Berlin), BSc (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)
• Awards: SNDE Young Scholar Award, ECB Young Economist Prize finalist
• Projects: Distributional effects of macroeconomic policies in Europe, empirical monetary-fiscal equivalence

His work combines theoretical Heterogeneous Agent New Keynesian (HANK) modeling with empirical analysis, addressing topics like energy shocks, optimism bias, and policy spillovers within currency unions.