Rate My Professor Mariano Kulish

Mariano Kulish is a Professor of Macroeconomics in the School of Economics at the University of Sydney, part of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. He received his PhD in Economics from Boston College in 2005. Immediately following his doctoral studies, Kulish joined the Economic Research Department at the Reserve Bank of Australia, where he advanced to the position of Senior Research Manager. Prior to his current role, he held the position of Senior Lecturer in the School of Economics at the University of New South Wales. Kulish has been affiliated with the University of Sydney since September 2017.

Kulish specializes in macroeconomics, time series econometrics, and international macroeconomics. His research has garnered over 990 citations on Google Scholar. Key publications include "The fiscal arithmetic of a slowdown in trend growth" (European Economic Review, 2024, with Nadine Yamout), "Dutch Disease, Unemployment and Structural Change" (Economic Inquiry, forthcoming 2026, with James Morley and Nadine Yamout), "International spillovers of forward guidance shocks" (Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2021), "Turning point and oscillatory cycles: Concepts, measurement, and use" (Journal of Economic Surveys, 2021), "Optimal Inflation and the Identification of the Phillips Curve" (Journal of Monetary Economics, 2020), and "Issues in Estimating New Keynesian Phillips Curves in the Presence of Unknown Structural Change" (Advances in Econometrics, 2015, with Adrian Pagan). He has contributed to projects funded by the Australian Research Council as a chief investigator, including collaborations with James Morley and Francesco Zanetti. Kulish co-directed the Global Perspectives on Economic Policy initiative from 2019 to 2022. He has delivered the Treasury Guest Lecture on Fiscal Policy and served on the CAMA RBA Shadow Board. Additionally, his work appears in outlets such as the ABC and he maintains resources including presentations, teaching notes, and code for economic modeling on his professional website.