Antonio M. Conti Contact Information Bancad’Italia Territorial Research Unit Largo Carlo Felice 13 09124, Cagliari, Italy Work: (+39) 070 6003304 Cell: (+39) 349 2628144 Email: ant.conti@gmail.com; antoniomaria.conti@bancaditalia.it Research Interests Macroeconometrics, Time Series Analysis, Monetary Economics and Policy, European Economics. Education Universit´a degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy Ph.D. in Economics, December 2011 Faculty of Statistics, Department of Economics •Thesis Topic: Applied Monetary Economics and Econometrics of theEuro Area • Thesis Proposal: Money and the Euro Area Economy: Short and Long-Run Perspectives • Thesis Committee: Prof. Efrem Castelnuovo, Prof. Giuseppe Ciccarone, Prof. Massimo Del Gatto • Adviser: Professor Francesco Nucci ECARES, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium M.S., Quantitative Economics • Great Distinction, Top 5% • Thesis Topic: Money, Credit and Housing: An Empirical Evaluation • Adviser: Professor Domenico Giannone • Bayesian Macroeconometrics Academic Experience Universit´e Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium Teaching Assistant September 2009 to January 2011 • STAT-D-301 E0: Estimation économétrique (Prof. Domenico Giannone) • Winter 2009, Spring 2010 and Summer 2010 • Responsible for 24 hours lecture (theory and exercises) and supervision of 12 hours laboratory with E-Views empirical analysis Eléve-assistant September 2008 to January 2009 • ECON-D-201-E0 Théorie Macroéconomique I (Prof. Robert Kollmann) • office-room and training for undergraduate students Working Papers ? Measuring Euro Area Monetary Policy Transmission in a Structural Dynamic Factor Model, 2011.(joint with Matteo Barigozzi and Matteo Luciani), European Economy Economic Papers No. 441 ? On the sources of Euro Area money demand stability: A time-varying cointegration analysis, 2010. (joint with Matteo Barigozzi), ECARES Working Paper 2010-022. Research Papers ? Understanding Euro Area Money Demand (2012), joint with Matteo Barigozzi ? Do Euro Area Countries Respond Asymmetrically to the Common Monetary Policy? (2012), joint with Matteo Barigozzi and Matteo Luciani), submitted to a journal ? Liquidity Matters: Money Non-Redundancy in the Euro Area Business Cycle (2011), submitted to a journal ? Money, Credit, Housing and the Great Recession ? Credit Constraints and R&D Investments: Evidence from the Great Financial Crisis (2011), joint with Rosario M. Ballatore, Roberto Rassu and Giuseppe Saporito) ? In Progress ? Fiscal Policy and Financial Variables: Evidence from a Large Dataset, with Francesco Nucci ? The Awakening of Money and the Euro Area: A Critical Survey ? Animal Spirits and the Great Recession, with Matteo Barigozzi ? Unconventional Monetary Policy in a Structural Dynamic Factor Model, with Matteo Barigozzi Conferences and Seminars 2011 Bank of Italy, Seminario di Ricerca Economica Territoriale, Rome, December 19-21 XX International Tor Vergata Conference December 5-7 on Money, Banking and Finance, Rome, Bank of Italy, Workshop on Economie Locali e Credito nella Grande Recessione, Rome, October 6 Royal Economic Society Annual Conference, London, April 18-20 Fourth Italian Conference on Econometrics and Empirical Economics, Pisa, January 19-21 2010 DIW Macroeconometric Workshop, Berlin, November 26-27 International Macroeconomics Seminars, Katholike Universiteit of Leuven. Inviting Professor: Paul De Graauwe. Computing in Economics and Finance Annual Conference, London, July 15-17 Scottish Economic Society Annual Conference, Perth, April 12-14 Spring European Doctoral Meeting of Young Economists, Luxembourg, April 15-17 Universit´e Catholique de Louvain-La-Neuve Fall Doctoral Workshop, Louvain-La Neuve, January 27-28 Refereeing Service: The Economic Journal Honors, Awards and Fellowships ? Carlo Giannini Prize 2011 for the best conference paper written by a young scientist in Macroeconometrics and Financial Econometrics, ICEEE 2011, Pisa. On the Sources of Euro Area Money Demand Stability: A Time Varying Cointegration Analysis, with Matteo Barigozzi ? 2008-2010 Teaching Assistant Fellowship in Econometrics, Universit´e Libre de Bruxelles ? 2005-2008, PhD in Economics, scholarship, University of Rome, La Sapienza Professional Experience The Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs, European Commission, Bruxelles Intern economist October 2009 to March 2010 • Unit C3 -Monetary and Exchange Rate Policy of the euro area and the other Member States; ERM II and the euro adoption • Adviser: Bjoern Dohering Additional Education ? CIDE, Inter University Center for Econometrics Econometrics Course in Advanced Time Series September 17-22, 2007 • Instructors: Eduardo Rossi, Emanuele Bacchiocchi, Riccardo ”Jack” Lucchetti Econometrics Course in Advanced Time Series September 17-22, 2007 Techniques for building Small Macroeconometrics Models June 18-23, 2007 • Instructor: Adrian Pagan Predictive and Simulation Based Specification Testing and Model Selection June 18-23, 2007 • Instructor: Norman R. Swanson Technical Skills IT • Statistical and Econometric Packages: R.A.T.S., C.A.T.S., E-Views, R, MAT­LAB, Dynare, STATA and SAS • Editing: LaTeX, Beamer, MS Word, MS Power Point Languages • Italian: native speaker • English: fluent, oral and written • French: good, oral and written References: Prof. Domenico Giannone Prof. Francesco Nucci Prof. Robert Kollmann Prof. Massimo Franchi (Available upon request)