Alumni Profiles

Martin Fukač is an Economist at the Economic Research Department of Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, USA. Before coming to CERGE-EI, he earned an MSc degree in finance and banking from Masaryk University in Brno. While still working on his PhD being a PHD candidate he was admitted as an intern at IMF in 2004. Afterwards, in 2005-2006, he worked as an Economist and later as a Senior Economist at the Research Department of the Czech National Bank. His thesis, defended in 2007, is titled "Imperfect Knowledge, Expectations, and Monetary Policy". Shortly thereafter he joined the Reserve Bank of New Zealand as a Senior Research Analyst. In 2009, he moved to the United States to assume his current position at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.

He recently published "Limited information estimation and evaluation of DSGE models" (with Adrian Pagan) in the Journal of Applied Econometrics (2010).