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E-mail: alessandror@iadb.org
Alessandro Rebucci is a Senior Research Economist in the IDB Research Department, working on macroeconomic stabilization policies in the Latin American and Caribbean region. His current research interests include monetary policy, housing finance and international finance. Previously, he was a Senior Economist in the World Economic Studies Division of the International Monetary Fund Research Department. Other positions at the IMF included economist in the Modeling Division of the Research Department and the Stand-by Operation Division of the Policy and Development and Review Department. During his 10-year tenure at the IMF, Mr. Rebucci wrote extensively on monetary policy, global external imbalances, and other international finance issues, publishing refereed articles, policy reports and shorter journalistic pieces. He participated in numerous IMF program and surveillance missions and contributed to country and policy reports. He was a visiting scholar in the Economics Department of Boston College (US) and the Research Department of the central bank of Brazil. Mr. Rebucci holds a PhD in economics from the University of London (UK) and a MSc in economics from Bocconi University (Italy).
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Monetary policy
“Measuring Contagion and Interdependence with a Bayesian Time-Varying Coefficient Model: The Chilean FX Market During the Argentine Crisis,” (with M. Ciccarelli), Journal of Financial Econometrics, Vol 5, No. 2, March 2007, pp. 285-320, (http://jfec.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/nbm003?
ijkey=49Vj4zQqZ6lbpKm&keytype=ref ).
“Has The Transmission Mechanism of European Monetary Policy Changed in the Run-up to EMU?” (with M. Ciccarelli), European Economic Review, Volume 50, Issue 3 , April 2006, pp. 737-776. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2005.01.001).
“Measuring Disinflation Credibility in Emerging Markets: A Bayesian Approach with an Application to Turkey’s IMF-Supported Program,” (with Marco Rossi), Economics Bulletin, Vol. 6, No 11, pp. 1-8 , October 2006 (http://economicsbulletin.vanderbilt.edu).
“Retail Bank Interest Rate Pass-Through: Is Chile Atypical?”(with M. Espinosa-Vega), in “Banking Industry and Monetary Policy Transmission”, Analysis and Economic Policies Series, Vol. 7, October 2003 (Central Bank of Chile: Santiago, Chile).
Global imbalances and external adjustment
“Net Foreign Asset Positions and Consumption Dynamics in the International Economy,” (with F. Ghironi and T. Iscan), forthcoming in the Journal of International Money and Finance.
“Global Imbalances: The Role of Emerging Asia” (with P. Cova and M. Pisani), forthcoming in the Review of International Economics.
“Global Imbalances: The Role of the Non-tradable TFP in Advanced Economies” (with P. Cova, M. Pisani, and N. Batini), IMF Staff Papers, Vol. 55, No. 2, June 2008.
“The U.S. Dollar and the Trade Deficit: What Accounts for the Late 1990s?” (with B. Hunt), International Finance, Vol. 8, No. 3, December 2005, pp. 399–434.
International finance
“Is Growth Exogenous? Evidence from the 1970s and the 1980s,” forthcoming in Applied Economics.
“Recent IMF Staff Research on IMF-Supported Programs: An Overview,” (with A. Mody), in “IMF-Supported Programs: Recent Staff Research, by A. Mody and A. Rebucci (eds.), Washington DC, April 2006.
“How Might CAFTA Change Macroeconomic Fluctuations in Central America? Lessons from NAFTA,” (with M. Ayhan Kose), Journal of Asian Economics, vol. 16(1), pages 77-104, December 2004.
World Economic Outlook Chapters
“The Changing Housing Cycle and the Implications for Monetary Policy” (with R. Cardarelli and D. Igan), World Economic Outlook, Chapter3, Washington DC, April 2008. Media coverage: FT (several colums, including Martin Wolf’s one) and The Economist among others; roundtable discussion at The Brookings Institution.
“Exchange Rates and External Imbalances” (with R. Cardarelli), World Economic Outlook, Chapter3, Washington DC, April 2007. Media coverage: FT and Business Week among others; roundtable discussion at the Petersen Institute.
“Oil and Global Imbalances” (with N. Spatafora), World Economic Outlook, Chapter 2, Washington DC, April 2006. Media coverage: The Economist (Economics Focus), FT (Front Page and Martin Wolf’s column), LaRepubblica, Il Corriere, Il Sole24Ore, among others.
UNPUBLISHED RESEARCH AND WORKING PAPEPRS
“Housing Finance, Housing Shocks, and the Business Cycle: VAR Evidence from OECD Countires” (with R. Cardarelli, T. Monacelli, and L. Sala), unpublished manuscript.
“Optimal Stabilization Policy with Occasionally Binding Financial Frictions” (with G. Benigno, C. Otrok, E. R. Young, and H. Chen), unpublished manuscript.
“News Shocks, Exchange Rates and Equity Prices,” (with A. Matsumoto, P. Cova, and M. Pisani), unpublished manuscript.
“Aid, Exports, and Growth: A Time-Series Perspective on the Dutch Disease Hypothesis” (with J. S. Kang and A. Prati), unpublished manuscript.
“The Valuation Channel of External Adjustment,” (with F. Ghironi and J. Lee), NBER WP No. 12937, January 2007.
“Oil Shocks and External Balances,” (with L. Kilian and N. Spatafora), IMF WP No. 110/07 and CEPR No. 6303. Press coverage: Vox (http://www.voxeu.org).
“Monetary Rules for Emerging Market Economies,” (with F. Ghironi), unpublished manuscript, June 2003 (Previously issued as IMF WP No. 02/34, Washington DC).
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