Katja Schmidt
Head of the public finance division
Katja Schmidt is head of the public finance division at the DG Economics and International Relations. Previously, she was deputy head of the same division and senior economist at the conjunctural analysis division. Before joining the Banque de France in 2012, she worked as economist at the Ministry of Economics and the Ministry of Labour in Germany and at the OECD. Her research focuses on various topics in macroeconomics.
Current position
Head of the public finance division (since 2019)
Previous position
Deputy head of the public finance division (2017-2018)
Senior economist at the conjunctural analysis division (2012-2017)
Diploma
Master of Science in Economics, Humboldt University of Berlin
Research interests
Macroeconomics, time series, macroeconomic forecasts
Contact
- katja.schmidt@banque-france.fr
- +33 (0)1 42 92 98 32
- Banque de France, 49-1371 DGEI-DCPM-FIPU, 75049 Paris Cedex 01
Academic publications
- “Monetary-fiscal policy interactions in the euro area” 2021, with the ESCB work stream on monetary-fiscal policy interactions, ECB Occasional Paper No. 273, September 2021.
- “Fiscal expenditure spillovers in the euro area: an empirical and model-based assessment” 2020, with M. Alloza, M. Ferdinandusse and P. Jacquinot, ECB Occasional Paper No. 242, April 2020.
- "Low inflation in the euro area: Causes and consequences" 2017, with the ESCB expert group LIFT, ECB Occasional Paper No. 181, January 2017.