Andreas Tudyka works as Economist in the Fiscal Affairs Department at the International Monetary Fund. Currently, he is finishing his PhD thesis at WHU in Germany and has formerly studied at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, where he obtained an MSc degree in Economics as well as at LSE in London where he obtained his BSc degree in Economics. His research interests include applied macroeconometrics with specific focus on Bayesian multivariate time series methods. In this context, he previously worked on projects related to fiscal as well as monetary policy issues.