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Contributors VOWI_Tagung _2013.indb 212 25.11.13 13:22 Katrin Assenmacher numerous academic institutions, in- Katrin Assenmacher has been head of cluding the University of Konstanz, the the Monetary Policy Analysis Unit at University of Zurich, the University of the Schweizerische Nationalbank since California at Los Angeles, the Free 2010. She joined the Schweizerische University in Berlin, Humboldt Uni- Nationalbank as a Senior Economist in versity at Berlin, and the research 2004 after having worked as an assis- department of the Schweizerische tant professor at the University of Nationalbank, and served as an advisor Bonn. In 2012, she was appointed to to the Schweizerische Nationalbank. the Research Advisory Committee of He was president of the Federal Com- the Czech National Bank. In the course mission on Economic Affairs (advisory of her research, she was a visiting commission to the Swiss Federal Gov- scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of ernment) and a member of the Re- St. Louis, the Oesterreichische National- search Council of the Swiss National bank, the ECB and the Universities of Science Foundation and of the Euro- Copenhagen and Southern California. pean Science Foundation. He has also Her professional interest lies in mone- served as an editor and a member of the tary policy and time-series economet- editorial board of several academic rics. She published several articles in journals, including the Journal of international academic journals on Money, Credit, and Banking, the Jour- modeling the role of money in the in- nal of Banking and Finance, the Swiss flation process, analyzing business cy- Journal of Economics and Statistics, cle indices, and estimating central bank and Open Economies Review. His re- reaction functions. Katrin Assen- search interests include monetary the- macher holds a doctorate and a diploma ory and policy, macroeconomics, and in economics from the University of banking and financial markets. Bonn, where she also wrote her habili- tation. She lectured at the University of Forrest Capie Bern and currently teaches at the Uni- Forrest Capie is Professor Emeritus of versity of Zurich. Economic History at the Cass Business School City University, London. After Ernst Baltensperger a doctorate at the London School of Ernst Baltensperger is Professor Emeri- Economics (LSE) and a teaching fel- tus of Macroeconomics at the Univer- lowship there, he taught at the Univer- sity of Bern and advisor at the study sity of Warwick and the University of center Gerzensee of the Schweizerische Leeds. He was a British Academy Fel- Nationalbank, where he served as a low at the National Bureau in New York member of the foundation board and as and a Visiting Professor at the Univer- director. He studied economics at the sity of Aix-Marseille, and the LSE, and University of Zurich and received his a Visiting Scholar at the IMF. He was Ph. D. in economics from Johns Hop- Head of the Department of Banking kins University. He held previous posi- and Finance at City University from tions as professor of economics at Ohio 1989 to 1992; editor of the Economic State University (1968–1979), the Uni- History Review from 1993 to 1999; a versity of Heidelberg (1979–1982) and member of the Academic Advisory the University of St. Gallen (1981– Council of the Institute of Economic 1984). He joined the University of Bern Affairs in London (2000–), and an ad- in 1984. He was a visiting professor in visor to the Shadow Chancellor of the 41st ECONOMICS CONFERENCE 2013 213 VOWI_Tagung _2013.indb 213 25.11.13 13:22 Contributors Exchequer (1997–2004). He has writ- articles and books on economic policy, ten widely on the history of money and the international monetary system and banking and on commercial policy. He the economics of European integration, recently completed the commissioned including Dealing with the New Gi- history of the Bank of England (Cam- ants: Rethinking the Role of Pension bridge University Press, 2010). His lat- Funds (CEPR, 2006, with Tito Boeri, est book Money over Two Centuries Lans Bovenberg and Andrew Roberts) was published by Oxford University and Economic Policy: Theory and Prac- Press in 2012. He is currently advisor tice (Oxford University Press, 2010, to the UK’s Parliamentary Commission with Agnès Bénassy-Quéré, Pierre Jac- on Banking following the recent global quet and Jean Pisani-Ferry). financial crisis. Maria Fekter Benoît Coeuré Maria Fekter is the Austrian Minister Benoît Coeuré has been a member of of Finance; between 2008 and 2011 she the Executive Board of the European was Minister of the Interior. She started Central Bank since 1 January 2012. He her political career as a Member of Par- is responsible for Market Operations, liament of the Austrian People’s Party Research, and Payments and Market in 1990, also in 1990 she became Infrastructure. Prior to joining the Secretary of State at the Ministry of ECB, he served in various policy posi- Economy. Between 1994 and 2008, she tions at the French Treasury. He was held several positions in various institu- the Deputy Chief Executive, then Chief tions i. e., Member of the Economics Executive, of the French debt manage- and Employment Commission of the ment office, Agence France Trésor, be- European Union of Women, Vice- tween 2002 and 2007. From 2007 to Chairwoman of the Upper Austrian 2009, he was France’s Assistant Secre- People’s Party, Chairwoman of the Par- tary for Multilateral Affairs, Trade and liamentary Committee of the Judiciary, Development, co-chair of the Paris Chairwoman of the Economics and Club and G8 and G20 Finance Sous- Employment Commission of the Euro- Sherpa for France. From 2009 to 2011, pean Union of Women. Maria Fekter he was Deputy Director General and was elected by the National Council Chief Economist of the French Trea- Ombudsman (Volksanwältin, 2007– sury. Mr. Coeuré co-chaired the G20 2008). Ms. Fekter holds a doctor in le- working group on reforming the World gal studies from the Johannes Kepler Bank and the other multilateral devel- Univesity Linz and a MA in Business opment banks in 2009, and the G20 Administration. sub-working group on global liquidity management in 2011. Mr. Coeuré is a Ernest Gnan graduate of the École Polytechnique in Ernest Gnan has been Head of the Eco- Paris. He holds an advanced degree in nomic Analysis Division of the Oester- statistics and economic policy from the reichische Nationalbank in Vienna since École Nationale de la Statistique et de 1999. He is a member of the European l’administration économique (ENSAE) Central Bank’s Monetary Policy Com- and a B. A. in Japanese. He has taught mittee, and is also an adjunct professor international economics and economic at Webster University in Vienna, teach- policy at the École Polytechnique and at ing courses on economic analysis. Dur- Sciences Po in Paris. He has authored ing 1998, Ernest Gnan served as dep- 214 OESTERREICHISCHE NATIONALBANK VOWI_Tagung _2013.indb 214 25.11.13 13:22 Contributors uty head of the Foreign Research Divi- land, 2002–2004, and numerous other sion of the Oesterreichische National- studies relating to financial markets bank, and from 1995 to 1997, as an and to monetary policy and history. His economist in the Secretariat of the For- latest books include The Basel Com- eign-Exchange Policy Sub-Committee mittee on Banking Supervision: A His- at the European Monetary Institute (a tory of the Early Years, 1974–1997, forerunner of the European Central (2011), and The Regulatory Response Bank). He is a former national expert in to the Financial Crisis, (2009). the Directorate General for Monetary and Financial Affairs at the European Andreas Ittner Commission in Brussels, and a former Andreas Ittner is a Member of the Gov- investment fund manager at Genos- erning Board of the Oesterreichische senschaftliche Zentralbank in Vienna. Nationalbank (OeNB). He studied Ernest Gnan received a master’s degree economics and social sciences at the in commercial sciences and a Ph. D. in Vienna University of Economics and economics at the University of Eco- Business Administration between 1976 nomics and Business Administration in and 1980. Mr. Ittner started his profes- Vienna. sional career with the Ittner retail business in Vienna in 1978. In 1983, he Charles Goodhart joined the OeNB and began to work in Charles Goodhart, is Emeritus Profes- the Banking Analysis and Credit Super- sor of Banking and Finance with the Fi- vision Office. In 1997, he became Head nancial Markets Group at the London of the Secretariat for the President in School of Economics, having previ- the OeNB and in 1987, Andreas Ittner ously, 1987–2005, been its Deputy Di- was appointed Director of the Financial rector. Until his retirement in 2002, he Stability and Bank Inspections Depart- had been the Norman Sosnow Profes- ment of the OeNB. Mr. Ittner is among sor of Banking and Finance at LSE since other engagements an Acting Member 1985. Before then, he had worked at of the Banking Supervision Committee the Bank of England for 17 years as a of the ESCB, Vice President of the Cen- monetary adviser, becoming a Chief tre for Secure Information Technology, Adviser in 1980. In 1997 he was ap- Member of the Supervisory Board of pointed one of the outside independent the Austrian Financial Market Author- members of the Bank of England’s new ity as well as Member of the Financial Monetary Policy Committee until May Market Committee established under 2000. Earlier, he had taught at Cam- the Austrian Banking Supervision Act. bridge and LSE. Besides numerous articles, he has written a couple of books Harold James on monetary history; a graduate mone- Harold James is Professor of History tary textbook, Money, Information and and International Affairs and the Claude Uncertainty (2nd Edition 1989); two and Lore Kelly Professor of European collections of papers on monetary pol- Studies at Princeton University.

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