About Max

Research Interests

  • Applied Macroeconomics
  • Time-Series Econometrics
  • Machine Learning

Education

PhD Candidate - Centre for Applied Macroeconomics and
      Commodity Prices (CAMP)
        Handelshøyskolen BI Oslo, expected completion 2024
        Title: Modeling Macroeconomic Uncertainty and its Drivers
        Advisors - Leif Anders Thorsrud & Dimitris Korobilis
        Committee: Hilde Bjørnland (BI), Silvia Miranda-Agrippino (New York Fed)
        Pre-doc examination passed in June 2023

M.Sc. Economics - PhD oriented
        University of Tuebingen, 2019

B.Sc. Economics
        University of Tuebingen, 2016

Exchange Semester
        Valparaiso University (IN), 2015

Professional Experience

Central Bank Experience

Intern - Monetary Policy
       Norges Bank, August 2021 - present

Monetary Policy Analyst - Monetary Policy Strategy
       European Central Bank, May 2020 - August 2020

Trainee - Monetary Policy Strategy
       European Central Bank, May 2019 - April 2020

Master’s Thesis Intern - Economics Department
       Deutsche Bundesbank, Oct 2018 - Dec 2018

Intern - Research Department
       Deutsche Bundesbank, Sep 2017 - Dec 2017

Research Assistance

Research Assistant
       Institute for Applied Economic Research, Jan 2018 - Apr 2019

Research Assistant - Chair of Econometrics
       University of Tuebingen, Feb 2018 - Aug 2019

Research Assistant
       Institute for Applied Economic Research, Nov 2016 - Aug 2017

Research Assistant - Chair of Econometrics
       University of Tuebingen, Oct 2016 - Aug 2017

Intern
       Institute for Applied Economic Research, Aug 2016 - Oct 2016

Teaching

Teaching Assistance

  • PhD - Advanced Summer School 2023: Bayesian Machine Learning Methods for Modelling Macroeconomic and Financial Time Series
    University of Crete

  • MSc - Trends, Cycles, and Signal Extraction from a Macroeconomic Perspective
    Handelshøyskolen BI Oslo

  • BSc - Data Analysis with Programming
    Handelshøyskolen BI Oslo

  • MSc - International Macroeconomics and Finance
    Handelshøyskolen BI Oslo

  • BSc - Causality, Machine Learning and Forecasting
    Handelshøyskolen BI Oslo

  • Lab Sessions - Statistical machine learning
    University of Glasgow

Refereeing Activity

  • Journal of Applied Econometrics

  • International Journal of Forecasting

  • Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics

  • Latin American Economic Review

  • Journal of Economics and Finance

Conferences

2023

Junior Workshop in Econometrics and Applied Economics, Rome; 3rd Sailing the Macro Workshop, Siracusa; ESOBE 2023, Glasgow; IAAE Annual Conference 2023, Oslo ; 3rd Dolomiti Macro Meetings, San Candido; 27th International Conference on Macroeconomic Analysis and International Finance, Rethymno; SNDE Symposium 2023, Orlando.

2022

Advances in alternative data and machine learning for macroeconomics and finance, Paris; Workshop on Recent Advances in Econometrics, Glasgow.

2019

Third Research Conference of the CEPR Network on Macroeconomic Modelling, Frankfurt

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