Silvio Contessi

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Banking and Finance at Monash Business School, and I'm based in the Caulfield Campus in Melbourne, Australia.

My research, teaching, and policy interests are international finance, macro-finance, and banking. Before joining Monash, I was a research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and an adjunct lecturer at Washington University in St. Louis. I am also a Research Associate at the Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.

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Caulfield East VIC 145 - Australia

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Part of my research has been funded under Australian Research Council Discovery Project DP190100606 2019-2022 (A$ 239,000) on "Gross Credit Flows, Credit Reallocation, and the Macroeconomy" for which I was the Lead Investigator.

Contessi, Silvio, Qingyuan Du, Deting Gao, Lei Pan, and Shenxiang Xie (2026). "Exchange Rate Regime Flexibility and Firms’ Employment." Journal of International Money and Finance, Volume 161, February 2026, 103487.

Contessi, Silvio, Mei Dong, Yong Song, and Xuan Vu (2025). "The Dynamic Dirichlet process mixture model: An Application to the Banking Dynamics in the Long Run." manuscript PDF.

Shuya Yang, Daniel Melser, Farshid Vahid-Araghi, and Silvio Contessi (2023). "High Frequency, High Fidelity: Constructing Daily House Price Indexes," Monash Business School manuscript.

Contessi, Silvio, Mei Dong, Ainura Tursulunieva, and Xuan Vu (2025). "Heterogeneity in the Banking System in the Long Run: Evidence from New Australian Data Spanning a Century" Monash University manuscript.

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Recent Papers:

Contessi, Silvio, Qingyuan Du, Deting Gao, Lei Pan, and Shenxiang Xie (2026). "Exchange Rate Regime Flexibility and Firms’ Employment." Journal of International Money and Finance, Volume 161, February 2026, 103487.

Contessi, Silvio, Mei Dong, Yong Song, and Xuan Vu (2025). "The Dynamic Dirichlet process mixture model: An Application to the Banking Dynamics in the Long Run." manuscript PDF.

Shuya Yang, Daniel Melser, Farshid Vahid-Araghi, and Silvio Contessi (2023). "High Frequency, High Fidelity: Constructing Daily House Price Indexes," Monash Business School manuscript.

Contessi, Silvio, Mei Dong, Ainura Tursulunieva, and Xuan Vu (2025). "Heterogeneity in the Banking System in the Long Run: Evidence from New Australian Data Spanning a Century" Monash University manuscript.