Alex's Bank Underground blog posts
The forward guidance paradox - June 2017
How does the scope for policy loosening affect the risk of deflation? - June 2015
Alex is currently a senior economist on the Strategy Team in Monetary Assessment and Strategy Division, responsible for briefing and providing policy advice to the MPC on monetary strategy issues. Previously, since joining the Bank in 2006, he has worked in a variety of roles in the Monetary Analysis area. His research interests include monetary policy at the zero lower bound, DSGE modelling, and open economy macro. Alex holds an MPhil in Economics from Cambridge University and a BSc (Hons) in Economics from the University of Warwick.
Alex's selected academic publications
A procedure for combining zero and sign restrictions in a VAR-identification scheme, with Andrej Sokol, Centre for Macroeconomics (CFM) (2014)