Udara Peiris

PhD and MSc (Dist.) in Financial Economics, University of Oxford, 2010, Clarendon Scholar BComm (Hons), Finance and Actuarial Studies, UNSW, 2004

Research Interests:

Macroeconomics: Monetary Economics, International Finance

Asset Pricing: Credit Risk, Banking/Financial Stability

Personal page: www.udarapeiris.org

http://www.udarapeiris.org

Head of ICEF Search Committee

Member of Student Research and Placement Sub-committee and International Collaboration Sub-committee

Member of the Research Advisory Board Board of the Central Bank of Russia

Conferences:

• January 2020 Participation in 2020 ASSA Annual Meeting

• Participation in Midwest Macro Meetings, November 2019 in Michigan State University.

• East Lansing, USA; Mexico, Mexico, October 2019 Participation in 3rd Conference on Financial (in)stability of Bank of Mexico.

• UK (London, LSE), September 2019, Presentation “Commodity Cycles and Financial Instability in Emerging Economies” on the MMF 50thAnniversary Conference.

• UK (London, LSE), September 2019, Participation in the workshop on DSGE-modelling.

• Central Bank of Russia International Research Conference, July 2019, “Commodity Cycles and Financial Instability in Emerging Economies''

• UK (Oxford, Gilford), April, 2019, Presentation “A Financial Stability Analysis for the Chilean Economy” in Oxford University

• USA (New Haven), April, 2019, 15th Annual Conference on General Equilibrium and its Applications

• USA (Atlanta), January, 2019 ASSA Annual Meeting

• University of Nevada - Reno, April 2018, "The Fisher Equation Reconsidered"
• 2017 North American Econometric Society Meeting, June 2017, Washington University, St Louis, USA, "Capital Flows, Default and Renegotiation in a Small Open Economy"
• 21st ICMAIF, May 2017, University of Crete, Rethymno, Crete, Greece "Perils of Unconventional Monetary Policy"
• 2017 Spring Midwest Macro Meeting, May 2017, Louisiana State University, Louisiana, USA, "Capital Flows, Default and Renegotiation in a Small Open Economy"
• Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, May 2017, Washington D.C., USA, "The Fisher Equation Reconsidered: Inside-Outside Money and the Transmission of Monetary Policy in a Simple Model of Banking"
• University of Virginia, May 2017, "Capital Flows, Default and Renegotiation in a Small Open Economy"
• 2017 Royal Economic Society Annual Conference, April 2017, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK, "Capital Flows, Default and Renegotiation in a Small Open Economy"
• 15th SAET meeting, July 2015, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, "Default, Capital Structure and Aggregate Fluctuations in a DSGE model"
• University of Bath, May 2015, "Monetary Policy and Quantitative Easing in an Open Economy: Prices, Exchange Rates and Risk Premia"
• University of Surrey, May 2015, "Monetary Policy and Quantitative Easing in an Open Economy: Prices, Exchange Rates and Risk Premia"
• 10th Annual Cowles Foundation Conference on General Equilibrium and its applications, Yale University April 2014 «Monetary Policy and Quantitative Easing in an Open Economy: Prices, Exchange Rates and Risk Premia»
• American Economic Association Meeting, Philadelphia January 2014 «On the Efficiency of Nominal GDP Targeting in a Large Open Economy»
• Fall Midwest Macro Conference, University of Minnesota October 2013 «Monetary Policy and Quantitative Easing in an Open Economy: Prices, Exchange Rates and Risk Premia»
• Research Seminar, International Monetary Fund, Washington D.C. September 2013 «On the Efficiency of Nominal GDP Targeting in a Large Open Economy»
• Departmental Seminar, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign September 2013 «Monetary Policy and Quantitative Easing in an Open Economy: Prices, Exchange Rates and Risk Premia»
• NBER/NSF/CEME Conference in Mathematical Economics and General Equilibrium Theory, Columbia University September 2013 «Monetary Policy and Quantitative Easing in an Open Economy: Prices, Exchange Rates and Risk Premia»
• Departmental Seminar, Rice University September 2013, On the Efficiency of Nominal GDP Targeting in a Large Open Economy Research Seminar, Federal Researve Bank of Dallas September 2013, «Monetary Policy and Quantitative Easing in an Open Economy: Prices, Exchange Rates and Risk Premia»
• 13th SAET Conference on Current Trends in Economics, MINES Paris Tech July 2013 «On the Efficiency of Nominal GDP Targeting in a Large Open Economy»
• Australasian Econometric Society Meeting, University of Sydney April 2013 «On the Efficiency of Nominal GDP Targeting in a Large Open Economy»
• Research Seminar, Reserve Bank of Australia July 2013, «On the Efficiency of Nominal GDP Targeting in a Large Open Economy»
• 10th Annual Cowles Foundation Conference on General Equilibrium and its applications, Yale University April 2014 «Monetary Policy and Quantitative Easing in an Open Economy: Prices, Exchange Rates and Risk Premia»
• American Economic Association Meeting, Philadelphia January 2014 «On the Efficiency of Nominal GDP Targeting in a Large Open Economy»
• Fall Midwest Macro Conference, University of Minnesota October 2013 «Monetary Policy and Quantitative Easing in an Open Economy: Prices, Exchange Rates and Risk Premia»
• Research Seminar, International Monetary Fund, Washington D.C. September 2013 «On the Efficiency of Nominal GDP Targeting in a Large Open Economy»
• Departmental Seminar, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign September 2013 «Monetary Policy and Quantitative Easing in an Open Economy: Prices, Exchange Rates and Risk Premia»
• NBER/NSF/CEME Conference in Mathematical Economics and General Equilibrium Theory, Columbia University September 2013 «Monetary Policy and Quantitative Easing in an Open Economy: Prices, Exchange Rates and Risk Premia»
• Departmental Seminar, Rice University September 2013, On the Efficiency of Nominal GDP Targeting in a Large Open Economy Research Seminar, Federal Researve Bank of Dallas September 2013, «Monetary Policy and Quantitative Easing in an Open Economy: Prices, Exchange Rates and Risk Premia»
• 13th SAET Conference on Current Trends in Economics, MINES Paris Tech July 2013 «On the Efficiency of Nominal GDP Targeting in a Large Open Economy»
• Australasian Econometric Society Meeting, University of Sydney April 2013 «On the Efficiency of Nominal GDP Targeting in a Large Open Economy»
• Research Seminar, Reserve Bank of Australia July 2013, «On the Efficiency of Nominal GDP Targeting in a Large Open Economy»

Seminars:

• Russia (Nizjnii Novgorod), February 2019, HSE research seminar “Analysis of financial stability of Russian Economy"
• XXII European Workshop in General Equilibrium Theory, May 31 - June2, 2013, Vienna, Austria, "Monetary Policy and Quantitative Easing in an Open Economy: Prices, Exchange Rates and Risk Premia"
• Bank of England Research Seminar, April 30, 2013, Bank of England, London, UK, "On the Efficiency of Nominal GDP Targeting in a Large Open Economy"
• University of Warwick Departmental Seminar, January, 2013, Coventry, UK, "On the Efficiency of Nominal GDP Targeting in a Large Open Economy"
• University of Oxford Departmental Seminar, January, 2013, Oxford, UK, "On the Efficiency of Nominal GDP Targeting in a Large Open Economy"
• Purdue University Departmental Seminar, October 3, 2012, Department of Economics, West Lafayette, Indiana, US, "Monetary Policy and Quantitative Easing in an Open Economy: Prices, Exchange Rates and Risk Premia"
• The 2012 NBER/NSF/CEME Conference in Mathematical Economics and General Equilibrium, September 30, 2012, University of Indiana, Bloomington, Indiana, US, "Global Imbalances and Taxing Capital Flows"
• IJCB Fall Conference, September 27, 2012, Central Bank of Chile, Santiago, Chile, "Global Imbalances and Taxing Capital Flows"
• ICEF Research Seminar, September 13, 2012, HSE, Moscow, Russia, "Global Imbalances and Taxing Capital Flows"

• Hoelle, M. and Peiris, M.U., 2013 On the Efficiency of Nominal GDP Targeting in a Large Open Economy, Purdue University Krannert Working Paper Series, Paper No. 1273.
• Peiris, M. U. and Vardoulakis, A.P., On the Limitations of Monetary Policy, Warwick Working Paper, (extended working paper of 'Collateral and the Efficiency of Monetary Policy')
• Peiris, M. U. and Polemarchakis, H., Monetary Policy and Quantitative Easing in an Open Economy: Prices, Exchange Rates and Risk Premia, Warwick Working Paper
• Peiris, M. U., Mc Mahon, M. and Polemarchakis, H., The Perils of Quantitative Easing, Warwick Working Paper 

C.A.E. Goodhart and D. Tsomocos (2012), Ch 10. On Dividend Restrictions and the Collapse of the Interbank Market, Financial Stability in Practice, Vol. 2. Edward Elgar Publishing

McMahon, M., Peiris, M.U. and Polemarchakis H., Outright Monetary Transactions Sterilized, Voxeu column, October 30 2012

Goodhart, CAE., Peiris, M. U., Vardoulakis, A.P. and Tsomocos, D.P., Dividend Restrictions as Macroprudential Regulation, voxeu, 18 February 2010