Claudia Kwapil

Studied economics in Vienna (Mag.a from the University of Vienna, 1997) and in London (MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science, 2002) and finished her PhD at the University of Economics and Business in Vienna in 2011; currently she holds the position of a Senior Principal Economist at the Monetary Policy Section and Counsel to the Board of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (Central Bank of Austria); her fields of interest include implementation of monetary policy, transmission of monetary policy as well as central bank balance sheets.

Selected Publications: together with S. Fabiani et al.: Wage Rigidities and Labor Market Adjustment in Europe, In: Journal of the European Economic Association, 8 (2010); together with J. Scharler: Expected Monetary Policy and the Dynamics of Bank Lending Rates, In: International Review of Economics and Finance, 27 (2013); together with K. Rieder: The effects of the monetary policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic: preliminary evidence from a pilot study using Austrian bank-level data, In: Monetary Policy & the Economy Q4/20–Q1/21 (2021); together with M. Meiksner and A. Stelzer: Understanding central bank balance sheets - Drivers, determinants, and projections of the OeNB's profits and losses, In: Monetary Policy & the Economy Q3/25 (2025).