Meet the Economists
Alessandro Barbarino
alessandro.barbarino@frb.gov
Education
- Ph.D., Economics, University of Chicago, 2006
- M.A., Economics, Bocconi University, 1998
- B.A., Economics, Bocconi University, 1997
- Forecasting
- Factor Models
Principal Economist
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Research and Statistics
2015 - presentVisiting Senior Economist
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Monetary Affairs
2011Senior Economist
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Research and Statistics
2009 - 2015Economist
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
2006 - 2009Visiting Faculty
Duke University
2005 - 2006
- Barbarino, Alessandro, Travis J. Berge, Han Chen, and Andrea Stella (2020). "Which Output Gap Estimates Are Stable in Real Time and Why?" Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2020-102. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
- Barbarino, Alessandro, and Chiara Scotti (2020). "Real-Time Measurement of Business Conditions, Macroeconomic Surprises, and Uncertainty: Is a Recession Looming?" in C. James Hueng (ed.), Alternative Economic Indicators, chapter 5, pp. 57-80. Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.
- Barbarino, Alessandro, and Efstathia Bura (2017). "A Unified Framework for Dimension Reduction in Forecasting," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2017-004. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
- Barbarino, Alessandro, and Efstathia Bura (2015). "Forecasting with Sufficient Dimension Reductions," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2015-074. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
- Barbarino, Alessandro, and Giovanni Mastrobuoni (2014). "The Incapacitation Effect of Incarceration: Evidence from several Italian Collective Pardons," American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 1-37.
- Barbarino, Alessandro, and Boyan Jovanovic (2007). "Shakeouts and Market Crashes," International Economic Review, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 385-420.
- Barbarino, Alessandro, and Boyan Jovanovic (2004). "Shakeouts and Market Crashes," NBER Working Papers 10556. National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
discussion
November, 2011Federal Reserve System Committee on Business and Financial Analysis (Cleveland)
"Are People Aware of the Taylor Rule?" by Carvalho and Nechio
discussion
October, 2011FMA meetings (Denver)
"Does Fiscal Policy Matter for Bond Risk Premia?" by Alex Hsu
discussion
May, 2011Federal Reserve System Committee on Applied Microeconomics (St. Louis)
Discussion of "Aggregate Real-Wage Fluctuations: Composition Effect and Individual Wage Growth", by Daly, Hobijn and Wiles
discussion
November, 2010Federal Reserve System Committee on Regional Economics (New Orleans)
Discussion of "Product Life-Cycles and the Geographic Diffusion of Industries", by Elvery and Lin
discussion
May, 2010Federal Reserve System Committee on Applied Microeconomics (Boston)
"Biofuel Subsidies: An Open-Economy Analysis" by Bandyopadhyay, Bhaumik and Wall"
conference
January, 2010American Economic Association Meetings (Atlanta)
Estimating Incapacitation Using Collective Pardons
conference
May, 2009Federal Reserve System Committee on Macroeconomics (San Francisco)
The Information Gap
discussion
May, 2009Federal Reserve System Committee on Applied Microeconomics (Kansas City)
"No Ifs, Ands, or Butts: Casino Gaming Revenues and the Illinois Smoking Ban" by Garrett and Pakko
conference
October, 20082nd Conference of the Research Network on Innovation and Competition Policy (Berlin)
The Incapacitation Effect of Incarceration: Evidence from Several Italian Collective Pardons
discussion
November, 2008Federal Reserve System Committee on Regional Economics (Denver)
Discussed the paper "Forecasting House Prices for States and the Nation" by Kodrzycki and Triest
conference
September, 2008EALE conference (Amsterdam)
The Incapacitation Effect of Incarceration: Evidence from Several Italian Collective Pardons
conference
September, 2008University of Alicante
The Incapacitation Effect of Incarceration: Evidence from Several Italian Collective Pardons
conference
January, 2007American Economic Association Meetings (Chicago)
Measuring Unemployment Composition over the Business Cycle
Awards
- 2009
Giornale degli Economisti
Carlo Giannini Prize
Referee
- Review of Economics and Statistics
- Journal of Political Economy
- Journal of Economic Dynamics
- International Economic Review
- Manchester Journal
- Economic Journal
- Journal of the European Economic Association
- American Statistician
Professional Affiliation
- Instructor in "Statistics" at the John Hopkins University (2010)
- Instructor in "Statistics" at Collegio Carlo Alberto (Turin, 2009, 2010)