Rate My Professor Lukas Altermatt

Lukas Altermatt is a Lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of Essex. He obtained his PhD in Economics from the University of Basel in 2019 under the supervision of Professor Aleksander Berentsen, an MSc in Business and Economics in 2014, and a BA in Business and Economics in 2012 from the same university. He has held his current position since July 2020, following Visiting Research Fellowships at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis from February to June 2020 and at the Finance Department of the University of Wisconsin-Madison from February 2019 to February 2020.

Altermatt's research interests encompass macroeconomics, monetary theory, monetary policy, and financial stability, emphasizing microfounded models of the interaction between real and financial sectors. His publications feature in premier journals such as the Journal of Financial Economics, European Economic Review, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Review of Economic Dynamics, International Economic Review, Journal of International Money and Finance, and Journal of Economic Theory. Key works include "Systemic bank runs without aggregate risk: How a misallocation of liquidity may trigger a solvency crisis" (with Hugo van Buggenum and Lukas Voellmy, Journal of Financial Economics, 2024), "Oligopoly banking, risky investment, and monetary policy" (with Zijian Wang, European Economic Review, 2024), "Liquidity, the Mundell-Tobin Effect, and the Friedman Rule" (with Christian Wipf, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2024), "General Equilibrium with Multiple Liquid Assets" (with Kohei Iwasaki and Randall Wright, Review of Economic Dynamics, 2023), "Inside Money, Investment, and Unconventional Monetary Policy" (International Economic Review, 2022), "Asset Pricing in Monetary Economies" (with Kohei Iwasaki and Randall Wright, Journal of International Money and Finance, 2021), and "Savings, asset scarcity, and monetary policy" (Journal of Economic Theory, 2019). His research has received over 117 citations on Google Scholar. He teaches Introduction to Macroeconomics and International Finance at Essex and has taught Money, Banking and Payment Systems at Basel. Altermatt was awarded an SNSF Starting Grant for his project on financial stability in the era of digital currencies at the University of Bern.