Dr. Lutz Kilian has been a Senior Economic Policy Adviser at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas since the summer of 2019. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1996 and his M.A. in Development Banking from The American University in 1988. He joined the faculty at Michigan in 1996, where he was tenured in 2002 and promoted to Professor of Economics in 2008. Prior to his Ph.D., he worked for the research department of the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, DC. During 2001-03 he served as the research adviser to the European Central Bank in Frankfurt a.M., Germany. His research interests include time series econometrics, empirical macroeconomics, and energy economics. His work has appeared in leading general interest and field journals in economics and statistics. He is also the author of a textbook with Helmut Lütkepohl on Structural Vector Autoregressive Analysis, Cambridge University Press, 2017.

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