Fiorella De Fiore
Principal economist, European Central Bank
Fiorella De Fiore
Curriculum Vitae
January 2011
Principal Economist
European Central Bank
Directorate General Research
Monetary Policy Research Division
Ph: +49-69-1344-6330
Fax: +49-69-1344-8552
Email: fiorella.de_fiore@ecb.int
PERSONAL
Born on June 28, 1968, in Borgosesia (VC), Italy. Italian citizenship. Married. Three children.
EDUCATION
PhD in Economics, 2000. European University Institute, Florence, Italy.
Msc in Economics, 1995. London School of Economics, UK.
BA in Economics and Social Sciences, 1993. Bocconi University, Italy. Summa cum Laude.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
De Fiore, F., P. Teles and O. Tristani. 2011. "Monetary Policy and the Financing of Firms." American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, forthcoming.
De Fiore, F., and O. Tristani. 2011. "Credit and the natural rate of interest." Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, forthcoming.
De Fiore, F., and Z. Liu. 2005. “Does Trade Openness Matter for Aggregate Instability?” Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 29, p. 1165-1192.
De Fiore, F., and P. Teles. 2003. “The Optimal Mix of Taxes on Money, Consumption, and Income.” Journal of Monetary Economics, 50 (4), pp 871-887.
SELECTED WORKING PAPERS
De Fiore, F. and O. Tristani. 2009. “Optimal Monetary Policy in a Model of the Credit Channel,“ ECB Working Paper No 1043 (under revision).
De Fiore, F. and H. Uhlig. 2005. “Bank finance versus bond finance: what explains the differences between US and Europe?,” CEPR Discussion Paper n. 5213 (under revision).
ONGOING PROJECTS
De Fiore, F. and H. Uhlig. “Corporate Finance and Business Cycle Fluctuations”.
De Fiore, F. and O. Tristani. “Financial Frictions and the Zero Lower Bound”.
RECENT CONFERENCES
Paper presentation: LMU and Northwestern University Conference on "Asset Markets, Nominal Contracts, and Monetary Policy," Munich, 2009; ECB conference on “Financial Markets and Macroeconomic Stability,” Frankfurt, 2009; Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung conference on “Recent Developments in Macroeconomics,” Mannheim, 2009; BIS and ECB workshop on “Financial Stability and Monetary Policy,” Frankfurt, 2008; Society of Economic Dynamics Meetings (2009, 2008), European Economic Association Meetings (2009, 2008), Conference on Computational Economics and Finance (2008, 2007), AEA Annual Meetings (2007).
Paper discussion: CEPR and Euro Area Business Cycle Network conference on “Advances in Business Cycle Research - Directions Since the Crisis,” Brussels, 2010; CEPR, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance and Banque de France conference on “The Future of Monetary Policy,” 2010; 5th Workshop on Dynamic Microeconomics, Santorini, 2007; Fed of Cleveland and Bundesbank conference on “Monetary policy strategy: Old issues and new challenges,” Frankfurt am Main, 2007.
Organization: European Central Bank conference on “Financial Markets and Macroeconomic Stability,” Frankfurt am Main, 2009.
INVITED SEMINARS
IGIER-Bocconi University, Bank of England, Deutsche Bundesbank, Bank of Portugal, ZEI-University of Bonn, Ente Einaudi, European Central Bank.
REFEREE ACTIVITY
Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of International Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, Economic Journal, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Journal of Economics Dynamics and Control, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Oxford Economic Papers, Computational Economics, Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, EC
Research interests:
Macroeconomics, monetary economics, financial markets, economic dynamics.
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