Departmental homepageDr Geraats completed her undergraduate and Master's degree in Economics at Tilburg University in 1995 and her PhD in Economics at the University of California at Berkeley in 2000, after which she was appointed as a University Lecturer in Economics at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow at St John's College.
Since 2000, Dr Geraats has taught Macroeconomics at the University of Cambridge in the MPhil in Economics and Economics Tripos, including compulsory courses in Monetary Economics, International Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policy. In addition, she supervises Part I, Part IIA and Part IIB Macroeconomics at St John's College.
Her research interests are in macroeconomics, monetary policy and behavioural economics, with a special interest in central bank transparency. In addition, she has been part of three commissioned independent evaluations of central banks.
Geraats, P. (2002), "Central Bank Transparency", Economic Journal 112 (483), pp. F532-F565
Eijffinger, S. and Geraats, P. (2006), "How Transparent Are Central Banks?", European Journal of Political Economy 22(1), pp. 1-21
Geraats, P. (2007), "The Mystique of Central Bank Speak", International Journal of Central Banking 3(1), pp. 37-80
Dincer, N., Eichengreen, B. and Geraats, P. (2022), "Trends in Monetary Policy Transparency: Further Updates", International Journal of Central Banking 18(1), pp. 331-348
