Kristina Barauskaitė Griškevičienė completed her doctoral studies in economics at ISM University of Management and Economics and has a master’s degree in economics from this university as well. During her PhD studies, in 2019-2020, she was selected for a PhD traineeship at the European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt Am Main, Germany, where she focused on analytical research projects and applied network methodologies to investigate network structures and propagation of shocks. For example, she worked on a project on collateral flows in the euro area secured money market where she applied network methodology to analyze the flows of different types of collateral. In 2020, she was selected for a summer research internship at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington, DC, USA, where her research project focused on global value chains and changes in intersectoral network structures. Currently, she is working at the ECB in Frankfurt Am Main, Germany.
Her research mainly focuses on production networks, the interconnectedness between the real economy and financial sector, and the role of network channel in propagating shocks, both micro and macro, to the macroeconomic level.