Emanuel Kohlscheen
Senior Economist
Monetary and Economic Department, Macroeconomic Analysis
Emanuel Kohlscheen joined the BIS in the summer of 2014. Previously, he was a Senior Adviser in the Research Department of the Brazilian central bank and a faculty member of the economics department at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. His research has focused on determinants of exchange rates and FX market policies, on housing markets and on economic growth. He earned his PhD in 2004 from the Institute for International Economic Studies in Stockholm.
Fields of interest
- Exchange rates and reserves
- Monetary policy
- Business cycle and growth
- "Residential investment and economic activity: evidence from the past five decades" (with A Mehrotra and D Mihaljek), International Journal of Central Banking, forthcoming.
- "Limiting risk premia in EMEs: the role of FX reserves", Economics Letters, forthcoming.
- " When the walk is not random: commodity prices and exchange rates" (with F Avalos and A Schrimpf), International Journal of Central Banking, vol 13, no 2, June 2017, pp 121-58. Also published as BIS Working Papers, no 551.
- " Official FX interventions through derivatives" (with S Andrade), Journal of International Money and Finance, vol 47, October 2014, pp 202-16.
- " Long-run determinants of the Brazilian real: a closer look at commodities", International Journal of Finance and Economics, vol 19, no 4, October 2014, pp 239-50.
- " Uma nota sobre erros de previsão da inflação de curto-prazo", Revista Brasileira de Economia, vol 66, no 3, 2012, pp 289-97.
- " Emerging floaters: pass-throughs and (some) new commodity currencies", Journal of International Money and Finance, vol 29, no 8, December 2010, pp 1580-95.
- " Domestic vs external debt servicing: an empirical analysis", International Journal of Finance and Economics, vol 15, no 1, 2010, pp 93-103.
- " Sovereign risk: constitutions rule", Oxford Economic Papers, vol 62, no 1, 2010, pp 62-85.
- " International liquidity swaps: is the Chiang Mai Initiative pooling reserves efficiently?" (with M P Taylor), International Journal of Finance and Economics, vol 13, no 4, 2010, pp 323-32.
- " Debt bailouts and constitutions", Economic Inquiry, vol 46, no 3, 2008, pp 480-92.
- " Why are there serial defaulters? Evidence from constitutions", Journal of Law and Economics, vol 50, no 4, 2007, pp 713-30.