Allison Mandra
Former Research Intern,
Allison Mandra is from the United States. She was an intern at Bruegel from November 2014 until June 2015. She obtained her Master’s in Macroeconomic Policy and Financial Markets from the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, where she wrote a thesis on whether financial analysts’ price targets for public equities are concordant with the use of rational expectations in asset-pricing models.
She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Bates College in the United States, and wrote her undergraduate thesis on the instabilities and inequities of the current international reserve system, including an analysis of proposed avenues for reform. During her studies she also spent a semester at Cambridge University focusing on theories of industrial organization.
Allison’s research interests include macroeconomics and international financial stability.
Featured work
Measuring Political Muscle in European Union Institutions
In this blog post we measure the number of top posts held by each nationality in the European Commission, the European Council and the European Parlia
ECB Quantitative Easing on track
On 9 March 2015 the ECB began purchasing European sovereign and agency bonds and supranational debt securities under the Public Sector Purchase Progra
German wage negotiations
In the beginning of January I wrote about the impact of persistently low inflation on collectively bargained wages in Germany. Concluded negotiations
European Central Bank quantitative easing: the detailed manual
This Policy Contribution examines the detail of how quantitative easing will actually take place in the euro area and its implications, following