About

Rüdiger Bachmann is a Stepan Family College Professor of Economics in the department of
economics at the University of Notre Dame. At Notre Dame, he is also a faculty affiliate of
the Nanovic Institute for European Studies. He is a research affiliate with the Centre for
Economic Policy Research (CEPR), a CESifo research network fellow, and an external
research professor at the ifo institute in Munich. He is also a member of the Atlantikbrücke
e.V.

Before joining the University of Notre Dame Bachmann was a full professor (W3) of
behavioral economics and finance jointly at Goethe University and the Center of Excellence
“Sustainable Architecture for Finance in Europe” (SAFE) in Frankfurt; the holder of the chair
of economics, especially Macroeconomics (W3), at RWTH Aachen University; an assistant
professor of economics at the University of Michigan; and a visiting (assistant) professor at
the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Michigan, Harvard University, Boston
University, and Yale University. Bachmann received undergraduate degrees in Economics
and Philosophy from Mainz University, and a Ph.D. from Yale University in 2007.
Bachmann also serves as a member of the editorial board of Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik and is a
member of the macroeconomics committee of the German Economic Association.

Bachmann’s research area is macroeconomics, where he specializes in the macroeconomics of
heterogeneous agents. He is interested in the implications of uncertainty and expectation
formation on macroeconomic outcomes. For his research, he uses the econometric tools of
empirical macroeconomics as well as state-of-the-art numerical simulation techniques. He
has also branched out into using surveys, in particular firm surveys, to address
macroeconomic questions. He has published in the American Economic Review, the Journal
of Monetary Economics, the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, the American
Economic Journal: Economic Policy, the International Economic Review, the Review of
Economic Dynamics, the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, the Journal of Economic
Dynamics and Control, the European Economic Review, Quantitative Economics, Economics
Letters, and Economic Theory.

Rüdiger Bachmann lives in Ann Arbor and is married to Ying Fan, an associate professor of economics (with tenure) at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Areas of Interest

• Macroeconomics