Nikolas Mayer
Nikolas Mayer
Economist and forecaster · 7 years at the European Central Bank

The Czech economy in data and European comparison.

I am an economist and macroeconomic forecaster. I spent seven years at the European Central Bank and later worked at the European Commission and European Parliament. Across my career, I have worked on macroeconomic forecasting, financial markets, banking, public finances and European economic policy.

Economic analysis and international comparisons repeatedly showed me that Czechia is moving away from Europe’s most successful economies on a number of indicators. In my own analysis, I work with statistical data to show clearly where Czechia is falling behind, why, and what needs to change.

My long-term goal is to use the experience I gained abroad to help Czechia move closer again to Europe’s most successful economies in living standards and economic performance.

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Professional experience
May 2025–Sep 2026

European Parliament

Economic Adviser
  • ECON, BUDG and FISC: financial legislation, EU budget and tax-related work.
  • Briefings, amendments, voting recommendations and support for parliamentary negotiations.
  • MISP, digital euro, RRF, MFF 2028–2034, NRPP, securitisation and EU own resources.
  • Analysis of EU borrowing, NGEU, guarantees, contingent liabilities and budgetary effects.
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2022–2025

European Commission — DG ECFIN

Economic Analyst
  • Macroeconomic and fiscal forecasting in a DG ECFIN country desk.
  • European Semester, MIP, IDRs, Country Reports and structural economic analysis.
  • RRF implementation and revisions for Slovakia and Malta, including milestones and targets.
  • Quantitative methodology for investment-target adjustments under construction-cost inflation.
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2021–2022

European Central Bank

Financial Stability Analyst — Macroprudential Policy
  • Analysis of bank capital requirements, buffers and credit supply.
  • AnaCredit: roughly 100 million loan observations linked to supervisory bank data.
  • SQL data warehouses and automation; econometrics in R and distributed data processing.
  • Research on pandemic capital relief and its effects on bank lending.
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2019–2021

European Central Bank

Market Operations Analyst — Bond and International Markets
  • Bond, foreign-exchange and broader financial-market analysis for the ECB and senior decision-making.
  • Investment strategy and risk monitoring for the ECB foreign-exchange fixed-income portfolio.
  • Analysis and reporting for managed portfolios and foreign-exchange interventions.
  • Python and Tableau for FX-market analysis, VaR and market-risk monitoring.
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2016–2019

European Central Bank

Research Analyst — Supervisory Banking Statistics
  • Collection, validation, processing and dissemination of supervisory bank data from national authorities.
  • Capital, liquidity, credit-risk, stress-test and data-quality indicators.
  • SAS/SQL processing of large supervisory datasets and Tableau visualisation.
  • Optimisation of a daily reporting process from roughly six hours to two.
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2015–2016

ECB / European Systemic Risk Board Secretariat

Trainee — systemic-risk analysis
  • Systemic Risk Survey: data collection, processing, visualisation and automation.
  • Systemic-risk analysis across banks, real estate, insurers and pension funds.
  • Econometric analysis of non-performing-loan drivers and VAR models.
  • Material for the ESRB General Board and public economic communication.
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2014–2015

European Commission — DG ECFIN

Trainee — macroeconomic imbalances
  • Quantitative analysis of macroeconomic imbalances in Sweden and the United Kingdom.
  • Development of econometric models and methodological updates for major surveillance publications.
  • Housing-price and interest-rate shock model used in the 2015 Sweden Country Report.
  • EViews/VAR modelling, housing vulnerabilities, household debt and shock transmission to GDP and consumption.
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2013

Boston Consulting Group

Visiting Associate
  • Strategy for the launch of a new mobile-network operator.
  • Quantitative analysis of the competitive telecommunications environment.
  • Pricing strategy and analytical material for client decision-making.
  • Direct work within the client team with analytical and project responsibilities.
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