Research Professor in the department Industrial Organisation and New Technologies of the Ifo Institute
Fellow of the CESifo Research Network
Faculty of Finance Sir John Cass Business School, City of London106 Bunhill RowEC1Y 8TZ London UK
Phone: +44(0)20/7040-8733 Fax: +44(0)20/7040-8881
Professor Batchelor is currently involved in the project “Kazakhstan - Methods to develop an Early Warning System for a Resource-Rich Transformation Economy”, which is financed by the Volkswagen Foundation. The basic task is to establish a reliable Early Warning System for both the monetary and the real economy of a country rich in natural resources on the basis of scientific methods geared to the Kazakhstan economy. In the context of Kazakhstan’s financial stability Professor Batchelor is particularly concerned with specific monetary aspects.
"Kazakhstan - Methods to develop an Early Warning System for a Resource-Rich Transformation Economy", Department Industrial Organisation and New Technologies
"Improvement of GDP forecasts using WES indicators" (scheduled project), Ifo World Economic Survey (WES)
Batchelor, Roy, "Forecaster Behaviour and Bias in Macroeconomic Forecasts", Ifo Working Paper No. 39, 2007 ( Download / Abstract )