Frédéric Opitz

Welcome to my website. I am a statistical assistant at the European Commission. I am working in the Sustainability of public finances and public expenditure trends unit (DG ECFIN). In parallel, I am finishing my PhD at Ghent University in the Department of Economics in the Macroeconomics, Policy and Econometrics Research Group . During my PhD, I worked as a PhD Trainee at the European Central Bank.

I obtained my Master's degree at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and my Bachelor's degree at the University of Mannheim.

My research interests are:

• Empirical Macroeconomics

• Bayesian Econometrics

• Fiscal, Macroprudential and Monetary policy analysis