Matthew Tong

Senior Manager, Structural Economics Division

Biography

Matt is a Senior Manager of the Household, Corporate, Trade and Fiscal teams in the Structural Economics Division in our Monetary Analysis directorate. His work focuses on issues around household and corporate behaviour and the implications for consumption, investment, productivity and trade. 

He has held a number of positions since joining us in 2003. He was editor of our Inflation Report (now the Monetary Policy Report) during 2014-2018. Prior to that he worked in the Macro Financial Analysis Division and the Monetary Assessment and Strategy Division. His research interests are in macro-finance, monetary policy transmission and central bank communication. 

Matthew's selected academic publications

The Long-Run Information Effect of Central Bank Communication, with S Hansen and M McMahon, Journal of Monetary Economics (2019)
QE and the gilt market: a disaggregated analysis, with MAS Joyce, Economic Journal (2012)
The financial market impact of quantitative easing in the United Kingdom, with MAS Joyce, A Lasaosa and I Stevens, International Journal of Central Banking (2011)