Fiorella De Fiore

Fiorella De Fiore
Curriculum Vitae
February 2014

Adviser
Financial Research Division
Directorate General Research
Ph: +49-69-1344-6330
Email: [email protected]

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., and O. Tristani. 2012. "Optimal Monetary Policy in a Model of the Credit Channel." Economic Journal, Vol. 123, Issue 571, pp. 906-931.
De Fiore, F., P. Teles and O. Tristani. 2011. "Monetary Policy and the Financing of Firms." American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Volume 3, Number 4, October 2011, pp. 112-142(31).
De Fiore, F. and H. Uhlig. 2011. “Bank Finance versus Bond Finance.” Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 43 (7), October 2011, pp. 1395-1418.
De Fiore, F., and O. Tristani. 2011. "Credit and the natural rate of interest." Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 43(2-3), pp. 407-440.
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 H. Uhlig. “Corporate Debt Structure and the Financial Crisis.” ECB Working Paper, forthcoming.
De Fiore, F. and O. Tristani. 2013. “(Un)conventional Monetary Policy and the Zero Lower Bound”, ECB Working Paper, forthcoming
De Fiore, F. and O. Tristani. 2009. “Optimal Monetary Policy in a Model of the Credit Channel,“ ECB Working Paper No 1043.
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., F. Heider, M. Hoerova and H. Uhlig. “Cross-border Interbank Lending during the Financial risis: a Macroeconomic Perspective.”
Correia, I., F. De Fiore, P. Teles and O. Tristani. “Credit Spreads and Lending Policies at the Zero Lower Bound.”

RECENT CONFERENCES

Paper presentation: Hong Kong Monetary Authority and Federal Reserve Bank of New York conference on "Domestic and International Dimensions of Unconventional Monetary Policy", Hong Kong, 2014; Bank of Canada and Queen U. Workshop on “Real-Financial Linkages,” Ottawa, 2013; Workshop on Macroeconomics, Financial Frictions and Asset Prices, U. of Pavia, 2013; ECB, Goethe U. and Bundesbank JLS Workshop, Frankfurt, 2013; CEPR/LBS Conference on “Developments in Macroeconomics and Finance,” London, November 2012; ECB Workshop on “Analysing the role of Credit in the Macroeconomy,” Frankfurt, May 2012; CEPR Macroeconomic Policy Research Workshop on “Microeconomic Behavior and Its Macroeconomic Implications during the Financial Crisis,” Budapest, September 2012; Central Bank Macroeconomic Modeling Workshop on “Modeling Imbalances,” Warsaw, September 2012.

Organization: Second conference and final conference of the “Macroprudential Research Network,” European Central Bank, Frankfurt, 2014 and 2012; European Central Bank conference on “Financial Markets and Macroeconomic Stability,” Frankfurt am Main, 2009; European Central Bank research meeting on “Monetary Policy Transmission in the Euro Area and in Accession Countries,” Frankfurt am Main, 2002.

INVITED SEMINARS
ECARES-Université Libre de Bruxelles; IGIER-Bocconi University; Bank of England; Deutsche Bundesbank; Bank of Portugal; ZEI-University of Bonn; Ente Einaudi-Bank of Italy; University of Glasgow; European Central Bank.
REFEREE ACTIVITY
Econometrica; Journal of Political Economy; American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics; Journal of Monetary Economics; Journal of Economic Theory; Journal of the European Economic Association; Journal of Money, Credit and Banking; Economic Journal; International Economic Review; Journal of International Economics; Macroeconomic Dynamics; Journal of Economics Dynamics and Control; Journal of Financial Intermediation; Journal of Financial Stability; Computational Economics; The Manchester School; Oxford Economic Papers; Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics; ECB Working Paper Series.