Research

Publications

"Time use and macroeconomic uncertainty", February 2024, with Matteo Cacciatore and Daniela Hauser

Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming [web version]

[previous versions: NBER 31954, Bank of Canada 2023-29]

"Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity Meets the Zero Lower Bound", June 2023, with Robert Amano

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Vol. 55, pages 859-887 [web version] [online appendix][working paper version]


"Housework and Fiscal Expansions", May 2016, with Daniela Hauser and Evi Pappa

Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 79, pages 94-108  [web version]


"Labor Market Participation, Unemployment and Monetary Policy", May 2016, with Alessia Campolmi

Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 79, pages 17-29 [web version] [online appendix] 


"Do Labor Market Institutions Matter for Business Cycles?", February 2015, with Andresa Lagerborg and Evi Pappa

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol. 51, pages 299-317  [web version] [online appendix]


"Monetary Commitment and Fiscal Discretion: The Optimal Policy Mix", April 2013

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Vol. 5, Issue 2, pages 187-216 [web version]


"Non-Atomistic Wage Setters and Monetary Policy in a New-Keynesian Framework", December 2009

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Vol. 41, Issue 8, pages 1613-1630 [web version]



Working Papers


"Monetary Commitment and the Level of Public Debt", February 2016, with Luisa Lambertini

Bank of Canada Staff Working Paper 2016-3


"Discretionary Fiscal Policy and Optimal Monetary Policy in a Currency Area", 2007

Working Paper No. 602, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche Bologna [Download web version]


"Optimal Simple Monetary Policy Rules and Non-Atomistic Wage Setters in a New-Keynesian Framework", 2006

Working Paper No. 690, European Central Bank



Policy papers

"The output-inflation tradeoff in Canada", July 2024, with Fanny McKellips, Rodrigo Sekkel, Laure Simon, Yinxi Xie, Yang Zhang

Bank of Canada Staff Discussion Paper 2024-7

"Average is good enough: avergae inflation taregting and the ELB", July 2020, with Robert Amano, Sylvain Leduc, Joel Wagner 

Bank of Canada Staff Working Paper 2020-31


"The Micro and Macro of Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity", May 2016, with Robert Amano, Dany Brouillette and Natalia Kyui

Bank of Canada Review, Spring 2016