Dr. Christopher Bowdler

Biography

Christopher Bowdler is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow at Oriel College. His research focuses primarily on applied macroeconomics, with a particular emphasis on the identification of monetary policy shocks and their transmission to the real economy and financial markets. He has published several empirical papers that explore these themes, as well as conducting tests on open economy models regarding the output-inflation tradeoff and evaluating the effects of international differences in labor market institutions. His recent research has examined the impact of monetary policy decisions on the banking system. In his teaching role at Oxford, Bowdler covers a range of undergraduate and graduate courses in macroeconomic theory, policy, and applied monetary economics, while also supervising graduate research. He has served on the editorial boards of the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics and the Oxford Review of Economic Policy, and he held the position of Secretary on the Board of the Review of Economic Studies. He has also been involved in various roles at Oriel College, including Director of Studies in Economics and Tutor for Admissions and Outreach from 2013 to 2015, continuing to contribute to college committees. Prior to his current post, Bowdler was a British Academy Post-doctoral Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, after completing his doctoral work reading Economics Tripos at the University of Cambridge, and has worked as a research consultant for the European Central Bank on various projects.

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