Raphael Auer
Economist, Swiss National Bank

Raphael Auer is an economist at the International Research Unit of the Swiss National Bank, which he joined in 2006 after receiving his Ph.D. in economics from MIT. During the 2009-2010 academic year he wa a visiting fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School's Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance. He is also a member of the advisory board of walras.org and a research associate at the Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.

Auer's research interests cover international trade, open macroeconomics, and economic growth. His recent research analyzes how industrial composition and within-industry firm reallocation respond to trade liberalization when firm’s output is differentiated by product characteristics such as quality. A second branch of his research analyzes pricing-to-market decisions of international firms and the effect of import competition on inflation dynamics.

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