Katharina Bergant

Last Updated: February 21, 2023

Katharina Bergant

Katharina has been an Economist in the Research Department at the International Monetary Fund since 2019. In addition to her work on monetary and macroprudential policies, her most recent research focuses on the application of microdata in international financial macroeconomics. Before she joined the IMF, Katharina did a research fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School. Previously, she worked in the Directorate Economics of the European Central Bank and the Monetary Policy division of the Central Bank of Ireland. Katharina was a Grattan Scholar at Trinity College Dublin where she earned her PhD under the supervision of Philip R. Lane.

Email: KBERGANT@imf.org

Personal WebPage: https://sites.google.com/site/katharinabergant/

Fluent In: German, Italian, Spanish.

IMF Books and Working Papers:

Forbearance Patterns in the Post-Crisis Period , Working Paper No. 2020/140 , July 24, 2020

Dampening Global Financial Shocks: Can Macroprudential Regulation Help (More than Capital Controls)? , Working Paper No. 20/106 , June 26, 2020

The Anatomy of the Transmission of Macroprudential Policies , Working Paper No. 20/58 , May 22, 2020

International Capital Flows at the Security Level – Evidence from the ECB’s Asset Purchase Programme , Working Paper No. 20/46 , February 28, 2020

Katharina Bergant

Katharina has been an Economist in the Research Department at the International Monetary Fund since 2019. In addition to her work on monetary and macroprudential policies, her most recent research focuses on the application of microdata in international financial macroeconomics. Before she joined the IMF, Katharina did a research fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School. Previously, she worked in the Directorate Economics of the European Central Bank and the Monetary Policy division of the Central Bank of Ireland. Katharina was a Grattan Scholar at Trinity College Dublin where she earned her PhD under the supervision of Philip R. Lane.

Email: KBERGANT@imf.org

Personal WebPage: https://sites.google.com/site/katharinabergant/

Fluent In: German, Italian, Spanish.

IMF Books and Working Papers:

Forbearance Patterns in the Post-Crisis Period , Working Paper No. 2020/140 , July 24, 2020

Dampening Global Financial Shocks: Can Macroprudential Regulation Help (More than Capital Controls)? , Working Paper No. 20/106 , June 26, 2020

The Anatomy of the Transmission of Macroprudential Policies , Working Paper No. 20/58 , May 22, 2020

International Capital Flows at the Security Level – Evidence from the ECB’s Asset Purchase Programme , Working Paper No. 20/46 , February 28, 2020

Publications in Journals (Refereed)

"The Anatomy of the Transmission of Macroprudential Policies" (with V. Acharya, M. Crosignani, T. Eisert, and F. McCann), Journal of Finance, 77 (5), 2533-2575.

"The role of stock-flow adjustment during the global financial crisis", Journal of International Money and Finance, Volume 110, 2021;

Publications in Books and Conference Volumes

"Macroprudential Policy during COVID-19: The Role of Policy Space" (with K.J. Forbes), Chapter IV in "Macro-financial Stability Policy in a Globalised World".

"International financial flows and the Eurosystem’s asset purchase programme: evidence from b.o.p and security by security data" (with M. Schmitz) as IFC Bulletin “Are post-crisis statistical initiatives completed?”

Other Published Materials

"Quantitative Easing and Portfolio Rebalancing - Micro Evidence from Irish Resident Banks", Economic Letter Series, 2017 (5).