Scholarship and Biography
Raphael Schoenle is a Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics at Brandeis University and the Brandeis International Business School. He recently served as the Deputy Director at the Center for Inflation Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. He is currently also a Scientific Advisor to the CEBRA executive committee. Prof. Schoenle’s research spans behavioral economics and household finance, inflation expectations, firms’ pricing behavior, macro- and monetary economics, climate change and international macroeconomics. Professor Schoenle is a recipient of the 2012 Young Economist Award from the Austrian Economic Association, and his work has been funded by the National Science Foundation. His work has been recognized by the 2024 Journal of Monetary Economics Best Paper Award for “The Real Effects of Monetary Policy Shocks: Evidence from Micro Pricing Moments” (with Gee Hee Hong, Matthew Klepacz and Ernesto Pasten), and the Journal of Finance 2020 Dimensional Funds Advisors Distinguished Paper Prize for “YOLO: Mortality Beliefs and Household Finance Puzzles” (with Rawley Heimer and Kristian Myrseth), Journal of Finance. He has been a visiting researcher at the Federal Reserve Banks of Cleveland, New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Columbia University and Harvard University. He is a research associate at the Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and a visiting researcher at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. He has published in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the AEJ: Macroeconomics, the Review of International Economics and the Journal of International Economics. He holds a Ph.D. and Master’s degree in Economics from Princeton University, and a Master’s degree in Statistics from Harvard University where he also obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Economics.