Professor Alpo Willman

Alpo Willman was Principal Economist at the European Central Bank, where he worked since the early stages of its creation. There, he played a key role at DG-Research with the development of the Multi-Country Euro-Area Model, a core policy tool used for policy analysis and forecasting. 

Alpo's research has also had an important academic impact. He pioneered models of speculative attacks on currencies based on credibility in the late 1980s, preceding much of the later literature arising since the 1993 ERM crisis. During the past 10 years he has been a key developer in the renaissance of research on capital-labour substitution in macroeconomics. Much of this work was developed through joint collaborations with Professor Miguel León-Ledesma at the School of Economics.

Alpo's publications can be found on RePEc and ResearchGate.