Robert C. M. Beyer, formerly a Senior Economist in the Macro, Trade, and Investment Global Practice at the World Bank, now serves in the European Department of the International Monetary Fund. Before joining the World Bank in 2016, he conducted research at the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund and completed a Ph.D. at Goethe University Frankfurt. His research contributions in empirical macroeconomics have been published in esteemed academic journals and accumulated over 750 citations on GoogleScholar.