Momo Komatsu

 PhD Economics Candidate
  University of Oxford

 momo.komatsu@economics.ox.ac.uk

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Job Market Candidate 2024/2025

Hi! I'm a DPhil (PhD) student in Economics at the University of Oxford, with Andrea Ferrero, Federica Romei, and Francesco Zanetti as my advisors. My research interests include macroeconomics, monetary policy, international economics, energy, and heterogeneous agent models.

My job market paper analyses the trade-offs policymakers faced in the 2022 Euro Area energy crisis regarding price cap policies. The cooperative decision is not to cap, but capping allows a country to avoid a crisis at the cost of negative spillovers on the uncapped country.

My other papers explore the effects of monetary policy to consumption inequality. I find that both real wages and unemployment play a crucial role in the transmission. Monetary policy can also play an important role during a cost-of-living crisis. During my summer at the IMF, I studied the optimal degree of exchange range stabilisation under diagnostic expectations.

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