Vincent Sterk

 

Lecturer (Assistant Professor)

Department of Economics

University College London

Drayton House, Gower Street,

London WC1E 6BT, UK

Phone: +44 207 679 5877

E-mail: v.sterk@ucl.ac.uk

 

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Curriculum Vitae

 

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Position

 

August 2011 - present: University College London

· Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Economics

 

Education

 

2007 - 2011: University of Amsterdam

· PhD in Economics

· Committee: Wouter den Haan (advisor), Lex Hoogduin, Nobuhiro Kiyotaki, Raf Wouters, Sweder van Wijnbergen

· Thesis title: “The Role of Mortgages and Consumer Credit in the Business Cycle”

 

Feb - June 2010: Federal Reserve Bank of New York

· Visiting PhD student at Macroeconomic and Monetary Studies Function

 

2000-2005: Tilburg University

· Econometrics and Operations Research

 

Publications

 

“Credit Frictions and the Comovement between Durable and Non-durable Consumption” (2010),

Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 57 (2), pp. 217-225.

 

“The Myth of Financial Innovation and the Great Moderation” (2011), Economic Journal, Vol. 121, Issue 335, pp. 707 (with Wouter den Haan).

 

Working Papers

 

“Recession Scars and the Growth Potential of Newborn Firms in General Equilibrium”, with Petr Sedlacek, (2013)

 

“Job Uncertainty and Deep Recessions”, with Morten O. Ravn, (2013)

 

“Home Equity, Mobility, and Macroeconomic Fluctuations” (2012)

 

Work in Progress

 

“Durable Goods and the Transmission of Monetary Policy: an Alternative Framework”, with Silvana Tenreyro (2013)

 

 

Research Interests

 

Empirical and Theoretical Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Housing Markets, Frictions in Financial Markets and Labor Markets, DSGE Models with Heterogeneous Agents      

 

Seminars and Conference Presentations

 

· DNB Conference “Housing and Credit Dynamics: Causes and Consequences”

· Sveriges Riksbank

· Federal Reserve Bank of New York

· Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and the Kiel Institute for the World Economy Conference “Labor Markets after the Great Recession”

· University of Oxford

· Paris School of Economics

· Banque de France

· Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

· Bank of Canada

· SciencesPo

· Bank of England

· Bank for International Settlements

· IIES, Stockholm

· University College London

· Federal Reserve Board

· Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

· Michigan State University

· CREI (Barcelona)

· Bank of Spain, Humboldt University

· SED Meetings (Ghent)

· Nordic Symposium in Macroeconomics (Smögen)

· AEA Meetings Chicago

· Institute for Advanced Studies (Vienna)

· RES meetings (young talent session)

· European Central Bank

· European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

· University of Oslo

· Bank of England (London Macro Workshop)

· University of Essex

· Birkbeck College

· Trinity College Dublin

· University of Cambridge

· CEMFI (Madrid)

· London School of Economics

· University of Bonn

 

Refereeing

 

American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, American Economic Journal: Macro, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking , Economic Enquiry, Journal of Financial Stability, Journal of Housing Economics, , Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Empirical Finance, Macroeconomic Dynamics, The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, Economic Journal

 

Previous Work Experience

 

2008 - 2011: De Nederlandsche Bank

· Economist at research department 

 

2005-2006: Ministry of Economic Affairs, The Netherlands

· Economist

 

Personal Information

 

Date of birth: March 19, 1982

Place of birth: Dordrecht, The Netherlands