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Home | People | Saskia ter Ellen
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Saskia ter Ellen

Research Fellow

University
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Research field
Accounting and Finance
Interests
Behavioral Finance, Sustainable Finance, Financial Institutions

Biography

Saskia ter Ellen is Associate Professor of Finance at VU Amsterdam and the Director of Knowledge Dissemination at Netspar Center. Before joining the VU she worked as a Financial Sector Expert at the IMF, as Associate Professor at BI Norwegian Business School, and as Senior Research Economist at Norges Bank. She works on topics related to Financial Decision Making, Financial Markets, Policy Communication, and Sustainable Finance.

Publications

Guillochon, J. and Ellen, \.T. (2025). Inflation concern, attention and central bank trust Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 239:.

Brubakk, L., \ter Ellen\, S., Robstad, Ø. and Xu, H. (2022). The macroeconomic effects of forward communication Journal of International Money and Finance, 120:.

\Ter Ellen\, S., Larsen, \VegardH.\ and Thorsrud, \.A. (2022). Narrative Monetary Policy Surprises and the Media Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 54(5):1525--1549.

\ter Ellen\, S., Hommes, C. and Zwinkels, R. (2021). Comparing Behavioural Heterogeneity Across Asset Classes Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 185:747--769.

Brubakk, L., \ter Ellen\, S. and Xu, H. (2021). Central bank communication through interest rate projections Journal of Banking and Finance, 124:.

\ter Ellen\, S., Jansen, E. and Midthjell, \.L. (2020). ECB Spillovers and domestic monetary policy effectiveness in small open economies European Economic Review, 121:.

\ter Ellen\, S., Verschoor, \WillemF.C.\ and Zwinkels, \RemcoC.J.\ (2019). Agreeing on disagreement: Heterogeneity or uncertainty? Journal of Financial Markets, 44:17--30.

Chiarella, C., \ter Ellen\, S., He, \.Z. and Wu, E. (2014). Fear or fundamentals? Heterogeneous beliefs in the European sovereign CDS market Journal of Empirical Finance, 32:19--34.

Verschoor, W., \Ter Ellen\, S. and Zwinkels, R. (2013). Dynamic Expectation Formation in the Foreign Exchange Market Journal of International Money and Finance, 37:75--97.

Ellen, \.T. and Zwinkels, \.C.J. (2010). Oil price dynamics: A behavioral finance approach with heterogeneous agents Energy Economics, 32(6):1427--1434.