Klodiana Istrefi is a Research Economist at the Monetary and Financial Analysis Division at the Banque de France. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Goethe University Frankfurt, a MSc in Economics and Psychology at Paris1, Pantheon-Sorbonne University and a MSc in European Economic Studies at Tirana University. Prior to the current position and her PhD studies, she was a Senior Economist at the Research Department of the Bank of Albania. She has also worked at the Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability (IMFS) and Center for Financial Studies (CFS) in Frankfurt. Istrefi’s research interests are monetary economics, international economics, applied macroeconomics and behavioral economics. Her current work focuses on studying the macroeconomic effects of policy uncertainty and central bank communication.