Researcher Profiles Benjamin Beckers

Economic Analysis Department

Current research interests: applied macroeconomics, international macroeconomics, monetary policy transmission

Ben currently works as a Senior Manager in the Economic Analysis Department, leading a team that focuses on monitoring international economic conditions. He was previously a member of the Frameworks and Macroeconomics team in the Bank’s Research Department, where he primarily worked on quantifying and understanding the channels through which monetary policy operates. He holds a PhD in Economics from the Freie University Berlin and a Masters in Quantitative Economics from Kiel University, Germany.

Research Papers

Beckers B and K Bernoth (2023) ‘Monetary Policy and Mispricing in Stock Markets’ Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, published online: 25 September 2023.
Beckers B and A Brassil (2022) ‘Inflation Expectations in Australia’ Australian Economic Review, 55(1).
Beckers B (2020) ‘Credit Spreads, Monetary Policy and the Price Puzzle’ RBA Research Discussion Paper No 2020-01.
Price F, B Beckers and G La Cava (2019) ‘The Effect of Mortgage Debt on Consumer Spending: Evidence from Household-level Data’ RBA Research Discussion Paper No 2019-06.
Beckers B, H Herwartz and M Seidel (2017) ‘Risk Forecasting in (T)GARCH Models with Uncorrelated Dependent Innovations’ Quantitative Finance, 17(1), pp 121–137.

Policy Papers

Beckers B, A Clarke, A Gao, M James and R Morgan (2024) ‘Developments in Income and Consumption Across Household Groups’ RBA Bulletin, January 2024.
Beckers B (2023) ‘Discussant Remarks by Benjamin Beckers on “Decomposing Supply and Demand Driven Inflation” by Adam Shapiro’ Discussion of ‘Decomposing Supply and Demand Driven Inflation’ presented at the annual Reserve Bank of Australia Conference on ‘Inflation’, Sydney, 25–26 September.
Beckers B, J Hambur and T Williams (2023) ‘Estimating the Relative Contributions of Supply and Demand Drivers to Inflation in Australia’ RBA Bulletin, June 2023.