Home Page of Alessandro Piergallini
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Associate Professor of Economics
Department of Economics and Finance
University of Rome "Tor Vergata"
E-mail: alessandro.piergallini@uniroma2.it
Mailing Address: Via Columbia 2, 00133 Rome, Italy
Teaching: Macroeconomics (B.Sc.), International Economics (M.Sc.), European Economy and Policies (M.Sc.), Macroeconomics (M.Sc.), Topics in Monetary Policy (Ph.D.).
Recent Research:
Do Governments React to Public Debt Accumulation? A Cross-Country Analysis (with P. Canofari and M. Tedeschi), September 2025.
Corporate Tax Cuts, The Cost of Capital, and Economic Activity, August 2025.
Tightening Monetary Policy and Investment Dynamics in the European Monetary Union: Firm- and Country-Level Heterogeneity (with P. Canofari, M. Cucculelli and M. Renghini), Journal of Corporate Finance, Vol. 94, September 2025, 102853.
Corporate Finance and Interest Rate Policy, Journal of Macroeconomics, Vol. 85, September 2025, 103698.
Fiscal Stimulus of Last Resort, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Vol. 56, No. 6, September 2024, pp. 1479-1514.
Average Inflation Targeting and Macroeconomic Stability, Economics Letters, Vol. 219, October 2022, 110790.
Is Fiscal Austerity Really Self-Defeating?, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Vol. 23, No. 6, December 2021, pp. 1228-1260.
Evaluating the Sustainability of Italian Public Finances (with M. Postigliola), North American Journal of Economics and Finance, Vol. 53, July 2020, 101180.
Demographic Change and Real House Prices: A General Equilibrium Perspective, Journal of Economics, Vol. 130, No. 1, June 2020, pp. 85-102.
Financial Crisis and Sustainability of US Fiscal Deficit: Indicators or Tests? (with P. Canofari and G. Marini), Journal of Policy Modeling, Vol. 42, No. 1, January-February 2020, pp. 192-204.
The Fallacy of Fiscal Discipline (with P. Canofari and G. Piersanti), Macroeconomic Dynamics, Vol. 24, No. 1, January 2020, pp. 55-68.
Nonlinear Policy Behavior, Multiple Equilibria and Debt-Deflation Attractors, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Vol. 29, No. 2, April 2019, pp. 563-580.
Fiscal Policy and Liquidity Traps with Heterogeneous Agents, Economics Letters, Vol. 157, August 2017, pp. 103-106.
A Note on Nonlinear Fiscal Regimes and Interest Rate Policy, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Vol. 20, No. 3, April 2016, pp. 832-844.
House Prices and Monetary Policy (with P. Brito and G. Marini), Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, Vol. 20, No. 3, June 2016, pp. 251-277.
Some Past Research
Non-Linear Budgetary Policies: Evidence from 150 Years of Italian Public Finance (with M. Postigliola), Economics Letters, Vol. 121, No. 3, December 2013, pp. 495-498.
Budgetary Policies in a DSGE Model with Finite Horizons (with B. Annicchiarico and N. Giammarioli), Research in Economics, Vol. 66, No. 2, June 2012, pp. 111-130.
Wealth Effects, the Taylor Rule, and the Liquidity Trap (with B. Annicchiarico and G. Marini), International Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 5, No. 3, September 2009, pp. 315-331.
Monetary Policy and Fiscal Rules (with B. Annicchiarico and G. Marini), The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, Vol. 8, Iss. 1, Article 4, 2008, pp. 140.
Inflation Bias after the Euro: Evidence from the UK and Italy (with G. Marini and P. Scaramozzino), Applied Economics, Vol. 39, No. 4, February 2007, pp. 461-470.
Population Dynamics and Monetary Policy (with B. Annicchiarico), Journal of Population Economics, Vol. 19, No. 3, July 2006, pp. 627-641.
Real Balance Effects and Monetary Policy, Economic Inquiry, Vol. 44, No. 3, July 2006, pp. 497-511.