Instructors

Domenico Giannone 

He is a Assistant Director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington, a Fellow of the International Association of Applied Econometrics (IAAE), and a Research Fellow of the Centre for European Policy Research (CEPR). 

His general fields of research are macroeconometrics, time series econometrics, forecasting, monetary policy, and business cycles. Before joining Amazon, he was Assistant Vice President at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Professor of Economics at the Université libre de Bruxelles and LUISS University of Rome, Economist at the European Central Bank, and visiting Lecturer at Columbia University, Harvard University, London Business School, and the Graduate Institute of Geneva. He was a member of the CEPR Business Cycle Dating Committee and Founder and Director of Nowcasting.com. He holds a Ph.D. from the Université libre de Bruxelles, 2004. 

Giorgio Primiceri 

He is a Professor of Economics at Northwestern University, a Research Fellow of the Centre for European Policy Research (CEPR), and a Research Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).

His main areas of research are macroeconomics and applied time-series econometrics. His work has primarily focused on understanding the causes and propagation mechanisms of macroeconomic fluctuations, the effect of monetary policy on business cycles, and the role of household debt and house prices in macroeconomic dynamics. He holds a B.A. from Universita' Bocconi and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. Giorgio was the recipient of a Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship. He's a former co-editor of the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics.