gianluca benigno

EDUCATION:
1995-2000 University of California at Berkeley Ph.D. in Economics
1994-1995 Universita’ “L.Bocconi”-Milano Master in Economics
1989-1994 Universita’ “L.Bocconi”-Milano Laurea Economia Politica

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES:

From August 2007
Reader (Associate Professor), Department of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science

From September 2007 to October 2008
Senior Economist, International Research Function, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

From Jan 2002 to August 2007
Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Department of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science.

From September 2000 to December 2001:
Economist, Monetary Assessment and Strategy Division, Bank of England

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES:

Visiting Scholar, Banque de France, April 2010
Visiting Scholar, IADB, April 2009-2010-2011
Houblon_Norman_George Fellow, Bank of England, October 2005 until March 2006
Visiting Scholar, IMF, April 2005, April 2006,
Visiting Professor, University of Athens, April 2005
Academic Consultant, Bank of England, Monetary Analysis, Division 5, from June 2003-Sept 2005.
Visiting Professor, Master in Economics and Finance, Universita’ Federico II di Napoli, May 2004, May 2005, May 2006
Visiting Professor, LUISS Rome, September 2003
Summer Intern, International Finance Division, Board of Governors Federal Reserve System, Washington D.C.,
June-August 1999.

AFFILIATIONS:

From September 2003:
Research Affiliate, International Macroeconomics Program. CEPR.

FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS and GRANTS:

2009-2011 Principal Investigator for ESRC grant on “The Macroeconomics of Capital Account Liberalization” (£290,142, principal investigator)
2006-2008 Principal Investigator for the World Economy and Finance Program, “Designing Monetary Policy for
2000-2003 ESRC New Scholar, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)
1998-1999 "Continuing Student" Fellowship, Department of Economics, U.C. Berkeley
1998-1999 “Ente Einaudi” Fellowship
1996-1998 “Bonaldo Stringher” Fellowship-Bank of Italy
1995-1996 “A.F. & A.M. Quillici” Fellowship- U.C. Berkeley
1994-1995 “Fondazione Invernizzi” Fellowship-Universita’ “L.Bocconi”

PUBLISHED PAPERS:

“Equilibrium Exchange Rates and Supply Side Performance”,
2003, Economic Journal, vol.113 no.486. (Joint with C. Thoenissen).
“Price Stability in Open Economies”,
2003, Review of Economic Studies, vol. 70(4) no. 245 (Joint with P. Benigno).
“Real Exchange Rate Persistence and Monetary Policy Rules”,
2004, Journal of Monetary Economics, vol. 51.
“Designing Targeting Rules for International Monetary Policy Cooperation”,
2006, Journal of Monetary Economics, vol.53.
“Implementing Monetary Cooperation Through Inflation Targeting”,
2008, Macroeconomic Dynamics Volume 12, April 2008 (Joint with P. Benigno).
“Interest Rate Rules for Fixed Exchange Rate Regimes",
2007, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Volume 31, Issue 7 (Joint P. Benigno and F. Ghironi).
“Exchange Rate Determination under Interest Rate Rules”,
2008, Journal of International Money and Finance, Volume 27, Issue 6. (Joint P. Benigno)
“Consumption and Real Exchange Rates with Incomplete Markets and Non-traded Goods”,
2008, Journal of International Money and Finance, Volume 27, Issue 6 (Joint C. Thoenissen)
“Capital Flows and Asset Prices”,
2007, NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics, (Joint K.Aoki and N. Kiyotaki)
“On the International Dimension of Fiscal Policy”
2010, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Volume 42, Issue 8 (Joint with B. De Paoli)
“Risk, Monetary Policy and the Exchange Rate
2011, NBER Macro Annual 2011, (with P. Benigno and S. Nistico’)
“Portfolio allocation and International Risk Sharing”
2012, Canadian Journal of Economics, Volume 45, No 2 (with H. Kucuk-Tuger).

OTHER PUBLISHED PAPERS:

“Revisiting Overborrowing and its Policy Implications”
2011, in Monetary Policy under Financial Turbulence, (eds. Luis Cespedes, Roberto Chang and Diego Saravia), (with H. Chen, C. Otrok, A. Rebucci, E. Young),.

PUBLISHED DISCUSSION:

Discussion of “Can Endogenous Change in Price Flexibility alter the Relative Performance of Exchange Rate Regimes?”,
by A. Sutherland and O. Senay, ISOM volume R. Clarida, J. Frankel and F. Giavazzi editors.
Discussion of “Expectations, Monetary Policy and the Misalignments of Traded Goods Prices”,
by M. Devereux and C. Engel. ISOM volume R. Clarida, J. Frankel and F. Giavazzi editors.

UNPUBLISHED PAPERS:

Adjusting to Capital Account Liberalization, (with K. Aoki and N. Kiyotaki), December 2008.
Second-Order Approximation of Dynamic Models with Time-Varying Risk, (with P. Benigno and S. Nistico), December 2010.
Capital Controls or Exchange Rate Policies? A Pecuniary Externality Perspective (with H. Chen, C. Otrok, A. Rebucci, E. Young) July 2011
Financial Crises and Macro-Prudential Policies ((with H. Chen, C. Otrok, A. Rebucci, E. Young) November 2010
Monetary and Macro-Prudential Policies: an Integrated Analysis, ((with H. Chen, C. Otrok, A. Rebucci, E. Young) December 2011
Optimal Policies for Macro-Financial Stability ((with H. Chen, C. Otrok, A. Rebucci, E. Young) March 2011

POLICY DISCUSSIONs:

“Il Giappone in Trappola: Keynes non basta piú” (with P. Benigno), Corriere della Sera, 14 Dicembre 1998
(“Japan Trapped: Keynes no longer enough”)
“Challenges for the Dollar as a Reserve Currency” in Beyond the Dollar: Rethinking the International Monetary System, Chatham House Report, Edited by Paola Subacchi and John Driffill, March 2010.
“ Are Macro-Prudential Policies Prudent?” ,Vox EU column (with H. Chen, C. Otrok, A. Rebucci, E. Young), August 2010.