Pia Hüttl
Pia Hüttl is an Austrian citizen and joined Bruegel as an Affiliate Fellow in 2015. Her research interests include macroeconomics, financial economics and monetary policy as well as European political economy.
Prior to this, Pia worked as Research Assistant for Bruegel, and as a Trainee in the Monetary Policy Division of the European Central Bank. Also, she worked as a Blue Book Stagiaire in the Monetary policy, Exchange rate policy of the euro area, ERM II and Euro adoption Unit in DG Ecfin of the European Commission.
She holds a Bachelor's degree in European Economics and a Master's degree in International Economics from the University of Rome Tor Vergata. She also obtained a Master's degree in European Political Economy from the London School of Economics, with a thesis on Current Account imbalances in the Euro area and the role of financial integration.
Pia is currently pursuing a PhD in Economics at the Humboldt University in Berlin.
She is fluent in German, Italian and English, and has good notions of French.
Featured work
How to provide liquidity to banks after resolution in Europe’s banking union
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Analysis of development in EU capital flows in the global context
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Returns on foreign assets and liabilities: exorbitant privileges and stabilising adjustments
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An update: sovereign bond holdings in the euro area – the impact of quantitative easing
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