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Matteo Iacoviello

Senior Economist

Trade and Financial Studies Section

International Finance

202-452-2426
matteo.iacoviello@frb.gov
Education
  • Ph.D., Economics, London School of Economics, 2002
  • M.Sc., Economics, London School of Economics, 1998
  • B.Sc., Economia, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", 1996
  • Ph.D., Economic Theory and Institutions, University of Bologna, 2001
  • Current Research Topics

  • Banks and Business Cycles
  • Macro Models with Occasionally Binding Constraints
    • Senior Economist

      Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

    • 2011 - present
    • Economist

      Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

    • 2010
    • Associate Editor

      Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking

    • 2010 - present
    • Associate Professor

      Boston College

    • 2008 - 2010
    • Assistant Professor

      Boston College

    • 2002 - 2008
    • Visiting Scholar

      Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

    • 2009
    • Consultant

      International Monetary Fund

    • 2008
    • Consultant

      Bank of Canada

    • 2007
    • Consultant

      European Central Bank

    • 2005 - 2006
  • Iacoviello, Matteo, and Marina Pavan (2011). "Housing and Debt Over the Life Cycle and Over the Business Cycle," International Finance Discussion Papers 1032. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
  • Iacoviello, Matteo (2010). "Housing in DSGE Models: Findings and New Directions," in de Bandt, Olivier, Thomas Knetsch, Juan Penalosa and Francesco Zollino eds., Housing Markets in Europe: A Macroeconomic Perspective. New York and Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 3-16.
  • Iacoviello, Matteo (2011). "Housing Wealth and Consumption," International Finance Discussion Papers 1027. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
  • Iacoviello, Matteo, and Stefano Neri (2010). "Housing Market Spillovers: Evidence from an Estimated DSGE Model," American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 125-164.
  • Iacoviello, Matteo, Fabio Schiantarelli, and Scott Schuh (2010). "Input and Output Inventories in General Equilibrium," International Finance Discussion Papers 1004. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
  • Iacoviello, Matteo (2008). "Household Debt and Income Inequality, 1963-2003," Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, vol. 40, no. 5, pp. 929-965.
  • Iacoviello, Matteo, and Raoul Minetti (2008). "The Credit Channel of Monetary Policy: Evidence from the Housing Market," Journal of Macroeconomics, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 69-96.
  • Iacoviello, Matteo, and Marina Pavan (2007). "An Equilibrium Model of Lumpy Housing Investment," Rivista di Politica Economica, vol. 97, no. 3-4, pp. 15-44.
  • Iacoviello, Matteo, and Raoul Minetti (2006). "International Business Cycles with Domestic and Foreign Lenders," Journal of Monetary Economics, vol. 53, no. 8, pp. 2267-2282.
  • Iacoviello, Matteo (2005). "House Prices, Borrowing Constraints, and Monetary Policy in the Business Cycle," American Economic Review, vol. 95, no. 3, pp. 739-764.
  • Iacoviello, Matteo (2004). "Consumption, House Prices, and Collateral Constraints: A Structural Econometric Analysis," Journal of Housing Economics, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 304-320.
  • Iacoviello, Matteo, and Francois Ortalo-Magne (2003). "Hedging Housing Risk in London," Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 191-209.
  • Iacoviello, Matteo, and Raoul Minetti (2003). "Financial Liberalization and the Sensitivity of House Prices to Monetary Policy: Theory and Evidence," Manchester School, vol. 71, no. 1, pp. 20-34.
  • Iacoviello, Matteo (2002). "House Prices and Business Cycles in Europe: A VAR Analysis," Boston College Working Papers in Economics 540. Boston College Department of Economics.
  • conference

    December 2011

    Korean Development Institute (invited speaker)

    Housing and the Macroeconomy

  • conference

    July 2011

    SED, Ghent

    Financial Business Cycles

  • seminar

    June 2011

    European Summer Symposium on International Macroeconomics

    Financial Business Cycles

  • seminar

    November 2010

    Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

    Housing and Debt over the Life Cycle and over the Business Cycle

  • conference

    December 2009

    Banque de France (keynote speaker)

    Housing Markets and the Macroeconomy

  • seminar

    February 2009

    University of Maryland

    Housing and Debt over the Life Cycle and over the Business Cycle

  • conference

    October 2009

    Central Bank of Netherlands (keynote speaker)

    Housing and Debt over the Life Cycle and over the Business Cycle

  • conference

    October 2008

    National Bank of Belgium Conference

    Housing Market Spillovers: Evidence from an Estimated DSGE Model

  • conference

    July 2009

    NBER

    Housing and Debt over the Life Cycle and over the Business Cycle

Editor

  • Associate Editor, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 2010 to present
  • Program Committee Member, European Economic Association Meetings, 2007 to present

Referee

  • American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (3)
  • American Economic Review (10)
  • The B.E. Journals in Macroeconomics (4)
  • Computational Economics (2)
  • Econometrica (2)
  • Economic Journal (3)
  • Economics Letters (3)
  • International Economic Review (4)
  • International Finance (2)
  • International Journal of Central Banking (3)
  • Journal of Banking and Finance (5)
  • Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control (3)
  • Journal of the European Economic Association (6)
  • Journal of Housing Economics (4)
  • Journal of Macroeconomics (3)
  • Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking (14)
  • Journal of Monetary Economics (5)
  • Journal of Political Economy
  • Macroeconomic Dynamics (3)
  • Quarterly Journal of Economics
  • Regional Science and Urban Economics (3)
  • Review of Economic Dynamics (4)
  • Review of Economics and Statistics (2)
  • Review of Economic Studies (3)
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