Michał Kobielarz

Michal Kobielarz joined KU Leuven in 2018 as an Assistant Professor, after obtaining his PhD at Tilburg University. His main research interests are International Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics, with a particular focus on monetary unions and topics related to the Eurozone Crisis. Michal’s research agenda concentrates on modeling sovereign default and exit from a monetary union, as two separate but interrelated decisions. The first chapter of his thesis, introducing this distinction, was published in the Journal of International Economics.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Tilburg University (2014 — 2018)
• Master of Science (MSc) Tilburg University (2012 — 2014)
• Master of Science (MSc) Tilburg University (2011 — 2012)
• Bachelor of Arts (BA) Warsaw School of Economics (2007 — 2010)
• IV LO

Companies

• Assistant Professor in Macroeconomics KU Leuven (2018)
• Consultant European Central Bank (2018 — 2018)
• PhD Candidate Tilburg University (2014 — 2018)
• Junior Fellow European Banking Center, Tilburg University (2013 — 2018)
• Class Teacher (TA) The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (2016 — 2016)
• Research Assistant Tilburg University (2013 — 2014)
• Teaching Assistant Tilburg University (2013 — 2013)
• Office Assistant German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) (2008 — 2011)
• Research Assistant Warsaw School of Economics (2009 — 2010)

Skills

• Matlab
• Macroeconomics
• Econometrics

Other

Economic Modeling