Michael McMahon

Michael McMahon is Professor of Economics at University of Oxford and Senior Research Fellow at St Hugh’s College. He previously worked at Warwick University and has also given courses at INSEAD, NYU, Chicago Booth, LBS and LSE. He has delivered capacity building courses throughout Asia with the IMF’s Singapore Training Institute.  He worked at the Bank of England for many years. Since April 2019, he serves as a member of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council.

His interests lie in macroeconomics of fiscal policy, business cycles, monetary economics, inventories and applied econometrics.  A key feature of his recent research is the use of interdisciplinary, data science techniques to understand communication and deliberation in central banks. His research has been published in journals including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Monetary Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of International Economics and numerous others.