Farzaneh Shamsfakhr is Researcher in the Economic Policy Unit at CEPS. Expert in theoretical and empirical macroeconomics, macro-econometric modelling, econometrics, and forecasting. Farzaneh has over ten years of professional experience in economic research and quantitative analysis. She has collaborated on several research projects in the field of macroeconomics, labour economics, fiscal and monetary policy, and international economics. She was part of the research team at the Chair of Public Finance and Economic Policy at RUB, conducting an empirical study on multinational profit shifting from developing countries and emerging countries. During her Ph.D. Farzaneh focused on quantitative macroeconomic modelling, developing, and estimating DSGE models. Her research projects involved business cycle analysis, economic and labor market outcomes of health shocks. Since 2020, Farzaneh has provided support to the work of the European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) in the context of the monetary dialogue of the European Parliament with the European Central Bank (ECB).
Farzaneh completed her Ph.D. at University of Duisburg-Essen and received her M.Sc in Economics from Ruhr University Bochum (RUB).
Mother tongue Farsi, she is fluent in English and has good knowledge of German.
