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Curriculum Vitae

Michael Murach studied business administration and economics at the Universities of Duisburg-Essen and Paris II. Since April 2014, he has been working as a research and teaching assistant for the Department of Macroeconomics of the University of Hagen. His doctoral thesis is supervised by Professor Helmut Wagner.

Michael’s research interests are applied times series analysis of commodity and asset prices. Specifically, his field of research is the evaluation of causal effects of monetary policy and liquidity on different asset prices.

Research Interests

• Monetary Macroeconomics
• Asset and Commodity Prices
• Growth and Structural Change in East Asia
• Income Distribution
• Applied Time Series Analysis

Academic Career

• Since April 2014 Research and Teaching Assistant for the Department of Macroeconomics of the University of Hagen.
• 2010 – 2013 Master of Science Degree in Economics, University of Duisburg-Essen and Université Paris II (Panthéon-Assas).
• 2005 – 2010 Diplom-Kaufmann (German equivalent of the Master’s degree in Business Administration), University of Duisburg-Essen.

Working Papers and Publications

• “The effects of external shocks on the business cycle in China: A structural change perspective” (Co-author: H. Wagner) SSRN Paper No. 2741579, March 2016.
• “Global Determinants of the Gold Price - A Multivariate Cointegration Analysis”, Unpublished Working Paper, 2015.

(For my recent publications see my page on www.SSRN.com: LINK.)

Presentations

2016:

• 18^th Göttinger Workshop "Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen", Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany, 24^th – 26^th of February 2016.
• 18^th Annual Conference of the International Network for Economic Research (INFER), Reus, Spain, 8^th – 10^th of June 2016.
• 14^th Annual INFINITI Conference on International Finance, Dublin, Ireland, 13^th – 14^th of June 2016.
• 15^th Annual Conference of the European Economics and Finance Society (EEFS), Amsterdam, Netherlands, 16^th – 19^th of June 2016.
• 27^th Chinese Economic Association (CEA) (UK) and 8^th CEA (Europe) Annual Conference, Duisburg, Germany, 1^th – 3^th of September 2016.

2015:

• KLU Finance Meeting on Gold, Hamburg, Germany, 19^th – 20^th of March 2015.
• 14^th Annual Conference of the European Economics and Finance Society (EEFS), Brussels, Belgium, 11^th – 14^th of June 2015.

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