Curriculum Vitae
Current positions
- Assistant Director, Division of Research and Statistics, Federal Reserve Board
- Senior Fellow, Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis (RCEA)
- Adjunct Professor, Department of Economics, Georgetown University
Education
- Dec 1995Ph.D. in Economics, University of Warwick, England. Thesis: “Bayesian Inference on Non-Stationary Data.” Supervisor: K.F. Wallis. (Awarded January 1996.)
- Nov 1994Ph.D. (dottorato) in Economics, University of Pavia, Italy. Thesis: “The Italian Monetary Market: Transmission Mechanisms and the Rational Expectation Hypothesis in the Term Structure.” Supervisor: Carlo Giannini.
- Jul 1991Master in Economics, University of Warwick, England.
- Mar 1988B.Sc. in Economics, University of Pavia, Italy (with distinction).
Academic career
- 2021–presentAssistant Director, Division of Research and Statistics, Federal Reserve Board
- 2018–presentAdjunct Professor, Department of Economics, Georgetown University
- 2019–2021Assistant Director and Section Chief, Division of Research and Statistics, Federal Reserve Board
- 2015–2018Section Chief, Current Macroeconomic Conditions, Division of Research and Statistics, Federal Reserve Board
- 2013–2014Principal Economist, Monetary Policy Research, European Central Bank
- 2012Visiting Professor, CenSoC, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
- 2007–2015Senior Economist, Monetary Policy Research, European Central Bank
- 2006Visiting Fellow, Department of Economics, UCLA
- 2005–2011Professor of Econometrics, Department of Economics, University of Brescia (on leave from Jan 2007)
- 2005Research Visitor, Monetary Policy Research Division, European Central Bank, Frankfurt
- 2004Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, Boston College
- 2001Visiting Fellow, Tinbergen Institute, Erasmus University Rotterdam
- 2000Visiting Fellow, Department of Economics, University of Iowa
- 2000–2005Associate Professor of Econometrics, Department of Economics, University of Brescia
- 1996–1997Visiting Fellow, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota
- 1993–2000Lecturer in Economics, Department of Economics, University of Brescia (tenured from March 1996)
Scholarships & awards
- 1990–91“Marco Fanno” scholarship for postgraduate studies, Mediocredito Centrale
- 1989ALEP B.Sc. dissertation prize, University of Pavia
- 1982–86Alumnus, Collegio Ghislieri, Pavia
Referee activity
Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Financial Econometrics, Econometric Theory, Econometric Reviews, Econometrics Journal, International Economic Review, Review of Economic Dynamics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Forecasting, International Journal of Forecasting, International Journal of Central Banking, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, European Economic Review, European Journal of Finance, Economic Inquiry, Economics Letters, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Journal of Applied Statistics, Statistica, Statistical Methods and Applications, Journal of the Italian Statistical Society, Research in Economics, Rivista Italiana degli Economisti, Politica Economica, Open Economies Review, Journal of Economics, Journal of Economics and Statistics, ECB Working Paper Series; Austrian Ministry of Education, Canadian Ministry of Education, Ministero Istruzione Università e Ricerca, Sloan Foundation.
Other professional activity
- 2005Consultant, European Central Bank
- 2002–2003Consultant, Ministero dell’Economia (Dipartimento delle Politiche di Sviluppo e Coesione) — leading indicators of regional capital account expenditures
- 1995–1999Consultant, forecasting models for Banca d’Italia, Credito Italiano, Prometeia, RASFIN
- 1988–1989Military service
- 1986IBM internship
Languages: Italian, English, German (basic).
Selected conference and seminar presentations
University of Warwick (1991, 1992) · University of Florence (1993, 1997), invited · Catholic University, Milan (1993, 1996, 2001), invited · University of Brescia (1994–2010, multiple) · University of Pavia (1994, 1995, 2002), invited · Winter Meeting, Econometric Society, Gerzensee (1995), London (2000) · IGIER Colloquia on Economic Research (1996) · University of Minnesota (1996), visiting professor · Bank of Italy (1996, 1997), invited · CIDE–Bank of Italy Conference on Economic Policy (1997, 1999) · University of Venice–GRETA (1997), invited · European Central Bank (1999), invited · European Conference of the Econometric Community, Dublin (2000) · University of Turin (2001), invited · Ente Einaudi, Rome (2001, 2004), invited · University of Glasgow (2002), invited · European Central Bank (2005), visiting fellow · EABCN, Zurich (2006) · CEF, Cyprus (2006) · CEF, Montreal (2007) · ESEM–EEA, Budapest (2007) · EABCN, Zurich (2007) · University of Palermo (2008), invited · University of Warwick, Economics and Warwick Business School (2008), invited · Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna (2008), invited · University of Chicago, SBIES (2008) · SoFiE Founding Conference, NYU Stern (2008) · Central Bank of Ireland, Dublin (2008), invited · IGIER–Bocconi (2008), invited · Bank of Norway (2008), invited · Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, Atlanta (2009) · Econometric Society North American Summer Meeting, Boston University (2009) · Bank of England (2010), invited · JEDC Conference, Tokyo (2010) · Econometric Society World Conference, Shanghai (2010) · Singapore Management University (2010), invited · CFE, UCL London (2010) · Bayesian Workshop, University of Kyoto (2011), invited · Bank of Japan (2011), invited · Ministry of Economics, Government of Japan (2011), invited · SNDE Conference, Washington (2011) · University of Technology Sydney (2011), visiting professor · University of Sydney (2011), invited · Banque de France (2011), invited · Journal of Forecasting Conference, Prague (2011) · CEF, San Francisco Fed (2011) · University of Pennsylvania (2011), invited · NBER–DSGE Workshop, Philadelphia Fed (2011) · Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (2011), invited · Forecasting Workshop, Bank of Canada (2011), invited · ESRI Workshop, Tokyo (2012), invited · Reserve Bank of Australia (2012), invited · Monash University (2012), invited · University of Sydney (2012), invited · University of Technology Sydney (2012), visiting professor · Reserve Bank of New Zealand (2012), two invited seminars · DSGE Workshop, Erasmus University Rotterdam/Tinbergen Institute (2012), invited · ISF, Boston (2012) · RCEA Bayes Conference, University of Toronto (2012) · Università di Padova (2012), invited · NBER–NSF Time Series Seminar, Texas A&M (2012) · ESOBE, Vienna (2012) · ECARES, Brussels (2012), invited · University of Maastricht (2013), invited · Università di Genova (2013), invited · Frontiers of Macroeconometrics Conference, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo (2013), invited · Frontiers of Macroeconometrics Conference, UCL–Bank of England (2013), invited · Macroeconometrics Workshop, University of Bucharest (2013), invited · JAE Conference, Erasmus University Rotterdam (2013) · SIS Workshop, University of Brescia (2013) · Banco Central do Brasil, Brasilia and Rio de Janeiro (2013), invited · Conference in Honour of Ken Wallis, University of Warwick (2013), invited · EABCN–Bundesbank Conference, Eltville (2013) · Indiana University (2015), invited · National Bank of Poland Workshop on Short-Term Forecasting, Warsaw (2015), invited · Dynare Conference, Brussels (2015), keynote · European Seminar on Bayesian Econometrics, Gerzensee (2015), invited · SBIES, University of Pennsylvania (2016) · Korea University, Seoul (2016), invited · Cleveland Fed (2016), invited · IAAE Conference, Milan (2016) · Hitotsubashi Summer Institute, Tokyo (2016) · Duke University (2016), invited · CFE Conference, Seville (2016) · “Forecasting Frameworks in Central Banks” Workshop, São Paulo (2016), invited · University of Pennsylvania (2017), invited · Federal Reserve System Macro Meeting, San Antonio (2017) · IAAE Conference, Sapporo (2017) · University of Bologna (2017), invited · Central Bank Conference, Banco Central do Brasil, São Paulo (2017), invited · Bank of Norway Conference, Oslo (2018) · Institute for Advanced Studies Conference, Vienna (2018) · ISF, University of Colorado Boulder (2018) · ISEO Conference, Brescia University (2018), invited · Monash University, University of Melbourne, University of Sydney (2018), invited · CFE, Pisa (2018) · University of Montreal (2019), invited · NBER–NSF SBIES, Brown University (2019) · RCEA Bayesian Workshop, Larnaca (2019), keynote · CFE, London (2019) · European Stability Mechanism, Luxembourg (2023), invited · Università di Roma Tor Vergata (2023), invited.