Welcome! I am Executive Director of the Research and Statistics Department at the Czech National Bank.
My research focuses on banking, financial stability, the transmission of central bank policies, and their impact on various parts of the economy, the financial system, and society as a whole.
Here you can find my published research as well as work in progress, various datasets, and codes.
Upcoming
— May 2025: Visiting the Central Bank of Ireland through its Research Engagement Programme as a Visiting Scholar
— June 2025: Discussant at the 2025 WIRE First Annual Workshop (Stockholm, Sveriges Riksbank)
— June 2025: Organizing Annual IJCB Research Conference on Assessing the Effectiveness of Monetary Policy during and after the COVID-19 Pandemic, hosted by the Czech National Bank and the International Journal of Central Banking
— September 2025: Organizing Second Annual Czech National Bank Conference: “Resilient Policy in Uncertain Times: Evolving Approaches to Monetary Policy and Financial Stability”
— December 2025: Organizing Second Czech National Bank Workshop on Financial Stability and Macroprudential Policy
Recent
— April 2025: New CNB Working Paper published: Instant Payments in Czechia: Adoption and Future Trends (with Ivan Trubelík, Tomáš Karhánek, and Aleš Michl)
— December 2024: Organizing the Czech National Bank Workshop on Financial Stability and Macroprudential Policy, which took place in Prague, Czechia
— November 2024: Presentation at the 13th Biennial Conference of the Czech Economic Society in Prague, Czechia. Papers:
- Mutual Funds in Face of Domestic and Foreign Monetary Policy: Insights from Supervisory Data (with Martin Hodula)
- Bank Lending Channel of Monetary Policy: Insights from AnaCredit (with Zuzana Gric and Jan Janků)
- Drying Up: The Effect of Drought on Corporate Loans with AnaCredit Data (with Tomáš Karhánek and Ivan Trubelík)
- Distributional Effects of Borrower-Based Macroprudential Measures (with Dominika Ehrenbergerová and Zuzana Gric)
— November 2024: Presentation at the 1st ChaMP Online Workshop. Paper: Monetary Policy Has a Long-Lasting Impact on Credit: Evidence from 91 VAR Studies (with Josef Bajzík, Jan Janků, Klára Moravcová, and Ngoc Anh Ngo).