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Karel Mertens

Senior Vice President and Director of Research
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Karel MertensKarel Mertens is director of research and senior vice president in charge of the Statistics Department.

He is responsible for leading the Dallas Fed’s effort to grow research thought leadership, advise on matters related to monetary policy, and guide Statistics Department efforts to collect and analyze data from across the Eleventh Federal Reserve District to better inform monetary policy and economic research.

His research interests include business cycles, fiscal policy, banking and monetary economics, empirical macroeconomics and time series econometrics. His recent work focuses on the macroeconomic effects of fiscal and credit policies.

Mertens is a research fellow at the Center of Economic Policy Research and a former research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Prior to joining the Bank in 2017, he was an associate professor of economics at Cornell University.

Mertens is a native of Belgium and holds a Licentiaat in economics from Ghent University, an MSc in economics from the London School of Economics and a PhD in economics from the European University Institute.

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