Research Interests

• Macroeconomics
• (international) Monetary Economics
• Financial Economics

Refereed Publications

• Dossche, M., V. Lewis and C. Poilly, Employment, Hours and The Welfare Effects of Intra-Firm Bargaining, Journal of Monetary Economics, forthcoming.
• Lewis, V. and M. Roth (2018), Interest Rate Rules under Financial Dominance, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol. 95, pp. 70-88.
• Cardoso-Costa, J.-M. and V. Lewis (2017), Fiscal Policy and Inflation in a Monetary Union, Economica, Vol. 84(336), pp. 779–796.
• Lewis, V. and R. Winkler (2017), Government Spending, Entry and the Consumption Crowding-In Puzzle, International Economic Review, Vol. 58(3), pp. 943–972.
• Lewis, V. and R. Winkler (2015), Fiscal Policy and Business Formation in Open Economies, Research in Economics, Vol. 69(4), pp. 603-620.
• Lewis, V. and R. Winkler (2015), Product Diversity, Demand Structures and Optimal Taxation, Economic Inquiry, Vol. 53(2), pp. 979-1003.
• Lewis, V. and A. Stevens (2015), Entry and Markup Dynamics in an Estimated Business Cycle Model, European Economic Review, Vol. 74, pp. 14-35.
• Lewis, V. (2013), Optimal Monetary Policy and Firm Entry, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Vol. 17(8), pp. 1687-1710.
• Lewis, V. and C. Poilly (2012), Firm Entry, Markups and the Monetary Transmission Mechanism, Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 59(7), pp. 670-685.
• Gerke, R., F. Hammermann and V. Lewis (2012), Robust Monetary Policy in a Model with Financial Distress, Journal of Macroeconomics, Vol. 34(2), pp. 318-325.
• Lewis, V. (2009), Business Cycle Evidence on Firm Entry, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Vol. 13(5), pp. 605-624.
• Lewis, V. and A. Markiewicz (2009), Misspecification, Learning and the Exchange Rate Disconnect Puzzle, The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics (Topics), Vol. 9(1), Article 13.
• Lewis, V. (2007), Productivity and the Euro-Dollar Real Exchange Rate, Review of World Economics, Vol. 127(2), pp. 324-348.

Awards

• Prize of the Economics Society Flanders 2013