Andreas Fuster

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Fields of expertise

Empirical finance (household finance, real estate finance, banking), macroeconomics, behavioral economics.

Biography

Andreas Fuster is an Associate Professor of Finance at Swiss Finance Institute @ EPFL and a Research Fellow at the CEPR. Previously, he worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Swiss National Bank. Andreas's main research interests are in empirical finance, macroeconomics, and behavioral economics. His recent work has focused in particular on the effects of technological advances on household credit markets. Andreas’s research has been published in academic journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Finance, and the Review of Financial Studies. Andreas obtained his Ph.D. from Harvard University and also holds an M.Phil. from Oxford University and a B.A. from the University of Lausanne (Switzerland), all in economics.

Teaching & PhD

Teaching

Financial engineering

PhD Students

Baldi Lanfranchi Federico, Kashizadeh Seyed Javad, Kurovskiy Gleb, Matera Giuseppe,

Courses

Financial intermediation

This course provides a theoretical and practical overview of what financial institutions do, how they manage their risks, and how they are regulated. The course also discusses the causes and effects of financial crises, and how financial intermediation is affected by technological innovation.

Macroeconomics and monetary policy

This course provides a framework and tools for understanding macroeconomic events. It explains how monetary and fiscal policies work and how they transmit to financial markets and the real economy.

Financial Econometrics II

The course aims to give students the tools to write academic papers and is divided into two parts. The first part covers microeconometric methods including panel data, IVs, difference-in-differences, and regression discontinuity design. The second part covers structural estimations methods.