Career
Research interest
Monetary policy, applied macroeconomics and time series (developing econometric models to study high dimensional data), business cycle
Other activities
Non executive director, Unicredit; member of the Scientific Council of many international research centers, co-founder of Now-Casting Economics, research director of the CEPR and fellow of the European Economic Association; council member Royal Economic Society, scientific advisor Central Bank of Norway, board member Centro Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI)-Bank of Spain; co-editor Journal of Applied econometrics, co-editor NBER-International Symposium in Open macroeconomics (ISOM), columnist Corriere della Sera.
Formerly
Director General Research, European Central Bank and Professor of Economics at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ECARES)