Adrian Alter
Last Updated: November 19, 2019
Adrian Alter is an Economist in the Monetary and Capital Markets Department (MCM) where he has mainly contributed to the analytical chapters of the Global Financial Stability Report (GFSR). He joined the IMF in 2013 as part of the Economist Program, and since then he has worked on various assignments including the Canada, Singapore, Serbia, and Russian Federation. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Konstanz, Germany and a Masters in finance from HEC Lausanne, Switzerland. He attended the 2016 Program on Financial Stability - Summer Institute - at the Yale School of Management, organized by Professors Gary Gorton and Andrew Metrick. His research interests include topics such as macroprudential policies, systemic risk, corporate finance, housing markets and financial contagion.
Email: aalter@imf.org
Personal WebPage: https://sites.google.com/view/adrianalter/home
Fluent In: French, Romanian.
Education:
2016 - Program on Financial Stability, Summer Institute, Yale School of Management, New Haven
2013 - PhD in Quantitative Economics and Finance (magna cum laude), University of Konstanz, Germany
2009 - MSc in Finance, HEC Lausanne, Switzerland
Previous Experience:
2012/05 – 2012/11: European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (PhD Internship) Financial Stability Surveillance Department (DG-F) – contributed to the Financial Stability Review - Dec 2012, Surveillance Notes, the European Banking Union
2011/07 – 2012/04: Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (Visiting Scholar) Banking Supervision Department – analyzed interbank interconnectedness, systemic risk, and bank capital buffers from a network perspective using the German Credit Register
2009/02 – 2009/07: UBS Investment Bank, Zürich, Switzerland (Internship) European Equities Trading Floor – contributed to reports for the Swiss Equities Management using data applications such as Bloomberg and Reuters
Referee Activities:
Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Financial Stability, Journal of International Money and Finance, International Review of Economics and Finance, Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance
Seminar Presentation:
"Policies to Harness Global Financial Interconnectedness" joint BIS-BOE-ECB-IMF Workshop, Basel, April 2019; 2018 IFABS Conference, July, Porto, Portugal; “Unconventional Monetary Policy: Lessons Learned” Conference at Hong Kong Monetary Authority; “Measurement and Control of Systemic Risk” Workshop at HEC Montreal; IFABS 2017 Oxford Conference, seminars at Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, European Central Bank, Final Marie Curie Conference - Konstanz, 6th International Conference on Computational and Financial Econometrics , "Convergence, Interconnectedness, and Crises: Insurance and Banking” Conference - Philadelphia, 11th Annual Bank Research Conference - FDIC and JFSR
Field of Expertise:
Banking
Macro-Financial Issues
International Finance
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IMF Books and Working Papers:
Digging Deeper--Evidence on the Effects of Macroprudential Policies from a New Database, Working Paper No. 19/66, March 22, 2019
Growth at Risk: Concept and Application in IMF Country Surveillance, Working Paper No. 19/36, February 21, 2019
IMF Country Reports
2016 – Russian Federation – IMF Country Report No. 16/231 – Financial System Stability Assessment
iMFdirect Blog Posts
What the Fed Rate Rise Means for Corporate Debt in Emerging Markets
Selected Issue
2015 – CEMAC – IMF Country Report No. 15/308
Other Published Materials
Global Financial Stability Report - Household Debt and Financial Stability, October 2017.
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Adrian Alter is an Economist in the Monetary and Capital Markets Department (MCM) where he has mainly contributed to the analytical chapters of the Global Financial Stability Report (GFSR). He joined the IMF in 2013 as part of the Economist Program, and since then he has worked on various assignments including the Canada, Singapore, Serbia, and Russian Federation. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Konstanz, Germany and a Masters in finance from HEC Lausanne, Switzerland. He attended the 2016 Program on Financial Stability - Summer Institute - at the Yale School of Management, organized by Professors Gary Gorton and Andrew Metrick. His research interests include topics such as macroprudential policies, systemic risk, corporate finance, housing markets and financial contagion.
Email: aalter@imf.org
Personal WebPage: https://sites.google.com/view/adrianalter/home
Fluent In: French, Romanian.
Education:
2016 - Program on Financial Stability, Summer Institute, Yale School of Management, New Haven
2013 - PhD in Quantitative Economics and Finance (magna cum laude), University of Konstanz, Germany
2009 - MSc in Finance, HEC Lausanne, Switzerland
Previous Experience:
2012/05 – 2012/11: European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (PhD Internship) Financial Stability Surveillance Department (DG-F) – contributed to the Financial Stability Review - Dec 2012, Surveillance Notes, the European Banking Union
2011/07 – 2012/04: Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (Visiting Scholar) Banking Supervision Department – analyzed interbank interconnectedness, systemic risk, and bank capital buffers from a network perspective using the German Credit Register
2009/02 – 2009/07: UBS Investment Bank, Zürich, Switzerland (Internship) European Equities Trading Floor – contributed to reports for the Swiss Equities Management using data applications such as Bloomberg and Reuters
Referee Activities:
Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Financial Stability, Journal of International Money and Finance, International Review of Economics and Finance, Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance
Seminar Presentation:
"Policies to Harness Global Financial Interconnectedness" joint BIS-BOE-ECB-IMF Workshop, Basel, April 2019; 2018 IFABS Conference, July, Porto, Portugal; “Unconventional Monetary Policy: Lessons Learned” Conference at Hong Kong Monetary Authority; “Measurement and Control of Systemic Risk” Workshop at HEC Montreal; IFABS 2017 Oxford Conference, seminars at Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, European Central Bank, Final Marie Curie Conference - Konstanz, 6th International Conference on Computational and Financial Econometrics , "Convergence, Interconnectedness, and Crises: Insurance and Banking” Conference - Philadelphia, 11th Annual Bank Research Conference - FDIC and JFSR
Field of Expertise:
Banking
Macro-Financial Issues
International Finance
IMF Books and Working Papers:
Digging Deeper--Evidence on the Effects of Macroprudential Policies from a New Database, Working Paper No. 19/66, March 22, 2019
Growth at Risk: Concept and Application in IMF Country Surveillance, Working Paper No. 19/36, February 21, 2019
House Price Synchronicity, Banking Integration, and Global Financial Conditions, Working Paper No. 18/250, November 28, 2018
Understanding the Macro-Financial Effects of Household Debt: A Global Perspective, Working Paper No. 18/76, April 06, 2018
Public Investment in a Developing Country Facing Resource Depletion, Working Paper No. 15/236, November 10, 2015
Financial Inclusion and Development in the CEMAC, Working Paper No. 15/235, November 09, 2015
Sustaining more Inclusive Growth in the Republic of Congo, African Departmental Paper No. 15/2, February 11, 2015
Centrality-based Capital Allocations, Working Paper No. 14/237, December 24, 2014
IMF Country Reports
2016 – Russian Federation – IMF Country Report No. 16/231 – Financial System Stability Assessment
2014 - Republic of Congo – IMF Country Report No. 14/272
iMFdirect Blog Posts
What the Fed Rate Rise Means for Corporate Debt in Emerging Markets
Selected Issue
2015 – CEMAC – IMF Country Report No. 15/308
Other Published Materials
Global Financial Stability Report - Household Debt and Financial Stability, October 2017.
Regional Economic Outlook -Sub-Saharan Africa - Fostering Durable and Inclusive Growth, April 2014.