Jiri Slacalek

Jiri Slacalek is an economist in the research department of the European Central Bank. His research includes work on consumption, inequality, monetary policy and household finance. His papers appeared in academic journals, such as AEJ Macroeconomics, the Review of Economics and Statistics, Quantitative Economics and the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking. He is Secretary of the Household Finance and Consumption Network. He studied economics at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore and the Charles University, Prague. For more information, see his personal web site: www.slacalek.com.