Carin van der Cruijsen

Economics and Research Division
Phone +31 20 5241961
email Carin van der Cruijsen

Education

2008 - Ph.D. Economics, Tilburg University
2003 - Master’s Economics, Tilburg University (cum laude)
2004 - Research Master in Economics, CentER, Tilburg University

Research Interests

Macroeconomics
Monetary economics
Central bank transparency
Labour economics

Short Bio

Carin van der Cruijsen has been working at De Nederlandsche Bank since 2004. In 2008 she completed her PhD thesis: “The Economic Impact of Central Bank Transparency” (supervised by Professor Eijffinger and Professor Hoogduin). Currently, Carin combines policy work and research at the Economics and Research Division of DNB. She works on topics like central bank communication and the labour market.

Working papers

How Anchored Are Inflation Expectations in EMU Countries? (with Maria Demertzis), DNB Working Paper No. 235, 2009. Download

Optimal Central Bank Tranparency (with Sylvester Eijffinger and Lex Hoogduin), CEPR Discussion paper No. 6889, CentER Discussion Paper No. 2008-59 and DNB Working Paper No. 178, 2008. Download

Does Central Bank Transparency Reduce Interest Rates? (with Petra Geraats and Sylvester Eijffinger), DNB Working Paper No. 85 and CEPR Discussion Paper No. 5526, 2006. Download

Publications in refereed journals

Carin van der Cruijsen and Sylvester Eijffinger (forthcoming), From Actual to Perceived Transparency: The Case of the European Central Bank, Journal of Economic Psychology. Download

Carin van der Cruijsen and Maria Demertzis (2007), The Impact of Central Bank Transparency on Inflation Expectations, European Journal of Political Economy 23(1), 51-66. Download

Publications in books

Cruijsen, C.A.B. van der, and S.C.W. Eijffinger (2009), The economic impact of central bank transparency: A survey, forthcoming in: Pierre Siklos, Martin Bohl and Mark Wohar (eds.), Challenges in Central Banking: The Present Institutional Environment and the Forces Affecting the Conduct of Monetary Policy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Download

Carin van der Cruijsen and Sylvester Eijffinger (2008), Central Bank Transparency: Does It Really Matter?, Chapter 21 in "Een klassiek econoom met een brede blik: Opstellen aangeboden aan Hans Visser", Sdu uitgevers.

Other publications

Cruijsen, C.A.B. van der (2008). The Economic Impact of Central Bank Transparency. CentER for Economic Research, Tilburg University, The Netherlands, Dissertation Series 222. ISBN: 978 90 5668 223 1. Download

Cruijsen, C.A.B. van der (2007). Central Bank Transparency Measures, Medium Econometrische Toepassingen 15(3), 2-7.

Cruijsen, C.A.B. van der (2006), The Changing Face of Central Banking: Evolutionary Trends Since World War II (by Pierre Siklos), De Economist 154(1), 126-128.

Latest update: January 2010