Prof. Dr. Sylvia Kaufmann

Sylvia Kaufmann is deputy director of the Study Center Gerzensee and adjunct professor at the university of Basel. She chairs the board of the European Seminar on Bayesian Econometrics (ESOBE), is Senior Fellow of the Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis, and  corresponding member abroad of the Austrian Academy of Science. She is a member of the monetary theory and policy, the econometric and the macroeconomic committee of the Verein für Socialpolitik. She holds a licentiate and a doctorate from the University of Bern. After her dissertation, she became assistant professor at the University of Vienna. Before joining the Study Center, she worked for the Austrian Central Bank as consultant for the Economic Analysis Division and as research economist in the Economic Studies Division; she worked as senior staff member in the Inflation Forecasting Unit of the Swiss National Bank. In the past, she has been lecturer at the University of Vienna and the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna. Her research interests include time series econometrics, monetary policy and macroeconomics.
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