Catalina Martinez Hernandez

Catalina Martínez-Hernández is a Ph.D. candidate at the DIW Graduate Center and a research associate at Freie Universität Berlin (FU Berlin) and the Macroeconomics department at DIW Berlin. Since 2018, she is part of the team “The Anchoring of Inflation Expectations” at FU Berlin. In her research, she focuses on studying the effects of conventional and unconventional monetary policy on prices and inflation expectations. Moreover, she also focuses on exploiting the information available in large and mixed-frequency data sets for obtaining accurate forecasts of key macroeconomic variables for the US and the euro area. Before joining the DIW graduate center in 2015, she studied Economics in Guanajuato (Mexico), Pamplona (Spain) and Konstanz (Germany). During her doctoral studies, she was a CSWEP (Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession) research fellow at the Research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, sponsored by the American Economic Association. Moreover, she was a PhD trainee and consultant at the European Central Bank.