Mathias Trabandt is a Professor of Macroeconomics at the Faculty of Economics and Business at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. He is also a Research Fellow at the Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) and an Associate Editor at the Review of Economic Dynamics. Mathias Trabandt’s research and teaching interests focus on macroeconomics, monetary economics, public economics, labor economics, international macroeconomics, financial frictions, and applied econometrics. His research has