Nina Biljanovska
Last Updated: April 08, 2021
Nina Biljanovska is an Economist at the Macro-Financial Division of the Research Department. Previously she worked in the Institute for Capacity Development and on the Brazil and Ecuador teams in the Western Hemisphere Department. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Goethe University Frankfurt. Her research interests include macro-policy, financial regulation, and behavioral finance.
Email: NBILJANOVSKA@imf.org
Personal WebPage: https://sites.google.com/site/biljanovska/
Education:
PhD Economics, Goethe University Frankfurt, 2010-2015
MSc Money and Finance, Goethe University Frankfurt, 2008-2010
BSc Business Administration, UNYP, Czech Republic, 2004-2008
Previous Experience:
Economist Program, IMF Institute for Capacity Development, Sep 2015-Mar 2017
Economist Program, IMF Western Hemisphere Department, Mar 2017-Sep 2018
Referee Activities:
International Journal of Central Banking, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Financial Stability, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
Awards and Honors:
IMF Innovation Initiative, Building Indexes of Behavioral Biases (team member), $35K
Current Position:
Economist, IMF Research Department, Macro-Financial Division
Country work or Mission Assignment:
Cyprus (Art. IV, 2023), Brazil (Art. IV, 2017, 2018), Ecuador, Singapore (capacity development), Georgia (capacity development)
Work in progress:
Optimal Mortgage Regulation and Income Inequality, joint with Alexandros Vardoulakis
Field of Expertise:
Public Finance
Open Economy Macroeconomics
Macro-Financial Issues
Economic Modeling
IMF Books and Working Papers:
Financial Amplification of Labor Supply Shocks , Working Paper No. 20/189 , September 18, 2020
Optimal Macroprudential Policy and Asset Price Bubbles , Working Paper No. 19/184 , August 30, 2019
Structural Reform Priorities for Brazil , Working Paper No. 18/224 , October 08, 2018
Fear Thy Neighbor: Spillovers from Economic Policy Uncertainty , Working Paper No. 17/240 , November 15, 2017
Testing Shock Transmission Channels to Low-Income Developing Countries , Working Paper No. 16/102 , May 23, 2016
IMF Country Reports
iMFdirect Blog Posts
Housing Prices Continue to Soar in Many Countries Around the World
Fiscal Discipline and Real Interest Rates
Selected Issue
Other Published Materials
Policies to Mitigate the Pandemic Fallout
Research Department Covid-19 Note: Bringing down the house: Real estate markets during the Covid-19 pandemic, joint with Deniz Igan
Research Department Covid-19 Note: Policies to mitigate the financial amplification of pandemics
Publications in Journals (Refereed)
Optimal Policy in Collateral Constrained Economies. Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2017
Nina Biljanovska is an Economist at the Macro-Financial Division of the Research Department. Previously she worked in the Institute for Capacity Development and on the Brazil and Ecuador teams in the Western Hemisphere Department. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Goethe University Frankfurt. Her research interests include macro-policy, financial regulation, and behavioral finance.
Email: NBILJANOVSKA@imf.org
Personal WebPage: https://sites.google.com/site/biljanovska/
Education:
PhD Economics, Goethe University Frankfurt, 2010-2015
MSc Money and Finance, Goethe University Frankfurt, 2008-2010
BSc Business Administration, UNYP, Czech Republic, 2004-2008
Previous Experience:
Economist Program, IMF Institute for Capacity Development, Sep 2015-Mar 2017
Economist Program, IMF Western Hemisphere Department, Mar 2017-Sep 2018
Referee Activities:
International Journal of Central Banking, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Financial Stability, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
Awards and Honors:
IMF Innovation Initiative, Building Indexes of Behavioral Biases (team member), $35K
Current Position:
Economist, IMF Research Department, Macro-Financial Division
Country work or Mission Assignment:
Cyprus (Art. IV, 2023), Brazil (Art. IV, 2017, 2018), Ecuador, Singapore (capacity development), Georgia (capacity development)
Work in progress:
Optimal Mortgage Regulation and Income Inequality, joint with Alexandros Vardoulakis
Field of Expertise:
Public Finance
Open Economy Macroeconomics
Macro-Financial Issues
Economic Modeling
IMF Books and Working Papers:
Financial Amplification of Labor Supply Shocks , Working Paper No. 20/189 , September 18, 2020
Optimal Macroprudential Policy and Asset Price Bubbles , Working Paper No. 19/184 , August 30, 2019
Structural Reform Priorities for Brazil , Working Paper No. 18/224 , October 08, 2018
Fear Thy Neighbor: Spillovers from Economic Policy Uncertainty , Working Paper No. 17/240 , November 15, 2017
Testing Shock Transmission Channels to Low-Income Developing Countries , Working Paper No. 16/102 , May 23, 2016
IMF Country Reports
iMFdirect Blog Posts
Housing Prices Continue to Soar in Many Countries Around the World
Fiscal Discipline and Real Interest Rates
Selected Issue
Other Published Materials
Policies to Mitigate the Pandemic Fallout
Research Department Covid-19 Note: Bringing down the house: Real estate markets during the Covid-19 pandemic, joint with Deniz Igan
Research Department Covid-19 Note: Policies to mitigate the financial amplification of pandemics
Publications in Journals (Refereed)
Optimal Policy in Collateral Constrained Economies. Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2017