Energy expert to visit CRA
Professor Baumeister’s presentation will evaluate alternative indicators of global economic activity and other market fundamentals in terms of their usefulness for forecasting real oil prices and global petroleum consumption. While world industrial production is regarded as one of the most useful indicators, she also considers how combining measures from different sources can give an even better indication. The analysis reveals a new index of global economic conditions and new measures for assessing future tightness of energy demand and expected oil price pressures.
During her five day visit, Professor Baumeister will also hold consultation sessions for staff members and HDR students seeking input by MRes and PhD students from the Department of Economics, Applied Finance, and Actuarial Studies and Business Analytics into their work and on future research collaborations.
Professor Baumeister is the Robert and Irene Bozzone Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. She holds, or has held, other positions as NBER Faculty Research Fellow, CEPR Research Fellow, CESifo Research Network Affiliate, Research Fellow, Halle Institute for Economic Research and Research Professor, Deutsche Bundesbank Research Center. She completed her PhD at Ghent University.
Before joining the Economics Department at Notre Dame in 2015, Christiane Baumeister was a Principal Researcher in the International Economic Analysis Department at the Bank of Canada. Her research interests include empirical macroeconomics, energy economics, applied time series econometrics and monetary economics.
She has published scholarly articles in a number of journals including Econometrica, the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, the International Economic Review, the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics and the Journal of Applied Econometrics. She is a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research and has been a visiting research scholar at the International Monetary Fund, the Banque de France, the University of California at San Diego, and the NIPE Research Center in Economics.