Adam Kučera

Adam Kučera (b. 1989 in Písek) received his PhD in Economics from the Institute of Economic Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague. He has been with the Czech National Bank since 2015, working continuously in the Financial Stability Department. Since 2023, he has served as Deputy Director of the Macroprudential Policy Division. His research focuses on two main areas: initially on yield curve modelling and financial market instruments in a broad sense, and more recently on household and bank sector simulations for financial stability purposes.

• Interconnectedness and contagion in the Czech financial system (2021). Thematic Article on Financial Stability 5/2020, Czech National Bank (with M. Szabo)
• Estimating the neutral Czech government bond yield curve (2019). Thematic Article on Financial Stability 3/2019, Czech National Bank (with M. Szabo)

• Yield Curve Dynamics and Fiscal Policy Shocks (2025). Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 07, 105-144 (forthcoming) (with A. Maršál and E. Kočenda)
• On the macrofinancial determinants of life and non-life insurance premiums (2023). Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Issues and Practice, 48(4), 760-798 (with M. Hodula, J. Janků and M. Časta)
• Identification of triggers of U.S. yield curve movements (2020). North American Journal of Economics and Finance  54
  The Czech government yield curve decomposition at the lower bound (2019). Finance a Uver - Czech Journal of Economics and Finance, 69(1), 2-36 (with M. Dvořák a Z. Komárková)