Federico Ravenna holds the Carlo Alberto Chair at Collegio Carlo Alberto Foundation, a joint venture of the University of Turin and Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation, and is a Professor of Economics at the ESOMAS Economics Department at University of Turin, Director of CCA DataLab, and affiliated professor at HEC Montreal. From 2016 to 2022 he held the position of Head of Research and Chief Policy Adviser of Danmark Nationalbank, and was an affiliated professor at the University of Copenhagen . In 2022 he was Senior Adviser of Sveriges Riksbank. The main area of his research are optimal monetary policy, international finance and modeling of the business cycle.
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Policy Presentation: Policy panel discussing the 2023 IMF World Economic Outlook with IMF economists Chiara Maggi and Andrea Presbitero, Festival Internazionale dell'Economia, 18 April 2023
Discussion of "Inside Digital Currency" presented at 'ToDeFi: Torino Decentralized Finance Conference 2023' dedicated to topics within Decentralized Finance, Blockchain Economics, and Cryptocurrencies, 19 April 2023
Conference: Organizing jointly with Sveriges Riksbank and Sustainable Finance Lab the conference "Climate change and the financial system: Challenges and opportunities for central banks", May 2-3 2023, discussing new research and policy implications with Nicoletta Batini, Anna Bremen, John Hassler, Steven Ongena, Glenn Rudebusch, Laura Starks
Discussion of Corporate Legacy Debt, Inflation, and the Efficacy of Monetary Policy by Xuan Wang , Dimitrios Tsomocos, Mahatelge Peiris, Charles Goodhart, CEBRA Annual Conference, Barcelona, 28 August 2022
2022 Harry Johnson prize: The paper: The Impact of Inflation Targeting: Testing the Good Luck Hypothesis, measuring the power of private sector expectations in reducing inflation volatility, was awarded the Canadian Economic Association Harry Johnson Prize for best paper
Policy panel video: Managing forward-looking uncertainty in 2022, organized by Finans Denmark and ICE-Intercontinental Exchange, March 2022
COVID-19 and the Economy
The Impact of Pessimistic Expectations on the Effects of COVID-19-Induced Uncertainty in the Euro Area (updated 2021 with forecast for the third wave of COVID-19) joint with Giovanni Pellegrino and Gabriel Züllig, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 4-83, August 2021
Media Summary: COVID-19, Vaccines and the Third Wave
Media Summary: Will economic uncertainty bring inflation?
Worker heterogeneity, selection and unemployment dynamics in a pandemic (updated 2022 with impact of labor market-inclusive monetary policy) joint with Carl Walsh, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, forthcoming. Appendix Media Briefing
Invited Contribution: The cost of Coronavirus Uncertainty in Europe: the High Returns to Clear Policy Plans, Australian Economic Review 53:3, September 2020. Featured in Econbrowser.com, June 2020
Editorial: How Green Finance Could Arrive in the Winner's Circle After the Pandemic, International Banker, September 2020