Meet the Economists
Dino Palazzo
dino.palazzo@frb.gov
Education
- Ph.D., Economics, New York University, 2009
- M.Sc., Economics, Bocconi University, 2003
- B.A., Economics, Bocconi University, 2002
Principal Economist
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
2021 - presentSenior Economist
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
2018 - 2020Assistant Professor of Finance
Questrom School of Business, Boston University
2009 - 2018Visiting Scholar
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
2013Faculty Fellow
The Center for Finance, Law & Policy at Boston University
2016 - 2017Summer Intern
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
2008
- Begenau, Juliane, and Berardino Palazzo (2021). "Firm Selection and Corporate Cash Holdings," Journal of Financial Economics, vol. 139, no. 3, pp. pp. 697-718.
- Lin, Xiaoji, Berardino Palazzo, and Fan Yang (2020). "The Risks of Old Capital Age: Asset Pricing Implications of Technology Adoption," Journal of Monetary Economics, vol. 115, pp. 145-161.
- McCoy, Jack, Michele Modugno, Dino Palazzo, and Steve Sharpe (2020). "Macroeconomic News and Stock Prices Over the FOMC Cycle," FEDS Notes 2020-10-14. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
- Medhat, Mamdouh, and Berardino Palazzo (2020). "Equity Financing Risk," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2020-037. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
- Palazzo, Dino, and Jie Yang (2019). "Spike in 2019Q1 Leverage Ratios: The Impact of Operating Leases," FEDS Notes 2019-12-13. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
- Palazzo, Berardino (2019). "Cash Flows Risk, Capital Structure, and Corporate Bond Yields," Annals of Finance, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 401-420.
- Clementi, Gian Luca, and Berardino Palazzo (2019). "Investment and the Cross-Section of Equity Returns," The Journal of Finance, vol. 74, no. 1, pp. 281-321.
- Clementi, Gian Luca, and Berardino Palazzo (2018). "Investment and the Cross-Section of Equity Returns," NBER Working Paper, no. 21064. National Bureau of Economic Research.
- Begenau, Juliane, and Berardino Palazzo (2017). "Firm Selection and Corporate Cash Holdings," NBER Working Paper, no. 23249. National Bureau of Economic Research.
- Lyandres, Evgeny, and Berardino Palazzo (2016). "Cash Holdings, Competition, and Innovation," Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, vol. 51, no. 6, pp. 1823-1861.
- Clementi, Gian Luca, and Berardino Palazzo (2016). "Entry, Exit, Firm Dynamics, and Aggregate Fluctuations," American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 1-41.
- Clementi, Gian Luca, and Berardino Palazzo (2013). "Entry, Exit, Firm Dynamics, and Aggregate Fluctuations," NBER Working Paper, no. 19217. National Bureau of Economic Research.
- Palazzo, Berardino (2012). "Cash Holdings, Risk, and Expected Returns," Journal of Financial Economics, vol. 104, no. 1, pp. 162-185.
- Palazzo, Berardino (2009). "Essays in Financial Economics," Ph.D. dissertation, New York University.
conference
June 2021North American Summer Meetings of Econometric Society
Young Firms and Monetary Policy Transmission
seminar
May 2021Danish Central Bank
Young Firms and Monetary Policy Transmission
seminar
May 2021Copenaghen Business School
Credit Risk and the Transmission of Interest Rate Shocks
seminar
January 2020American University
Equity Financing Risk
conference
October 2019UT Dallas Finance Conference
Equity Financing Risk
discussion
September 2019Northern Finance Association
Do Fundamentals Drive Cryptocurrencies Prices?
seminar
June 2019SEC
An anatomy of IPOs
seminar
March 2019Texas A&M
Equity Financing Risk
conference
September 2018Northern Finance Association
Equity Financing Risk
conference
August 2018Salento Macro Meetings
Firm Demographics and the Great Recession
discussion
May 2018SFS Finance Cavalcade
Aggregate Expected Investment Growth and Stock Market Returns
seminar
January 2018Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
The risks of old capital age: Asset pricing implications of technology adoption
conference
January 2018American Finance Association
Firm Selection and Corporate Cash Holdings
seminar
January 2018Paris Dauphine
The risks of old capital age: Asset pricing implications of technology adoption
seminar
December 2017University of Calgary
The risks of old capital age: Asset pricing implications of technology adoption
seminar
December 2017Cass Business School
The risks of old capital age: Asset pricing implications of technology adoption
conference
December 2017Corporate Policies and Asset Prices
Equity Financing Risk
seminar
December 2017Warwick Business School
The risks of old capital age: Asset pricing implications of technology adoption
seminar
November 2017Cornerstone Research
The risks of old capital age: Asset pricing implications of technology adoption
seminar
September 2017Bentley University
The risks of old capital age: Asset pricing implications of technology adoption
conference
August 2017European Finance Association
Firm Selection and Corporate Cash Holdings
conference
August 2017European Finance Association
The risks of old capital age: Asset pricing implications of technology adoption
conference
July 2017UBC Summer Finance Conference
Firm Selection and Corporate Cash Holdings
conference
June 2017Western Finance Association
Firm Selection and Corporate Cash Holdings
discussion
September 2017Northern Finance Association
The Effect of Technology Spillovers Across Firms on Corporate Financial Policies
discussion
August 2017European Finance Association
The Interest Sensitivity of Corporate Cash
discussion
June 2017Western Finance Association
Competition, Markups, and Predictable Returns
discussion
May 2017SFS Finance Cavalcade
Product Market Competition and Option Prices
Awards
- 2021
Journal of Financial Economics
Journal of Financial Economics Editor's Choice
- 2017
Boston University
Professional Evening MBA Faculty Award
- 2016
World Finance Conference
Best Paper Award
- 2013
European Winter Finance Summit
Best Paper Award
- 2003
New York University
Mac Cracken Fellowship
- 2002
Bocconi University
Corriere della Sera Scholarship
- 2002
Bocconi University
Fondazione Invernizzi Scholarship
- 2002
Bocconi University
Bocconi University Gold Medal
- 1997
Liceo Scientifico A. Romita
Dante Alighieri Society Prize
Conference Organization
2022 | Texas A&M
Sixth Annual Young Scholars Finance Consortium
Program committee member
2018-2019 | London
Corporate Policies and Asset Prices
Program committee member
2014 | Boston
The Fifth Boston University/Boston Fed Conference on Macro-Finance Linkages,
Organizer
2013 | Boston
The Fourth Boston University/Boston Fed Conference on Macro-Finance Linkages,
Organizer
2013-2018
Western Finance Association
Program committee member
2015-2022
European Finance Association
Program committee member
2017
Northern Finance Association
Program committee member
Referee
- AEJ: Macro
- American Economic Review
- Econometrica
- Economic Inquiry
- Economic Journal
- Economic Letters
- Empirical Economics
- European Economic Review
- Financial Management
- International Journal of Central Banking
- Journal of Banking and Finance
- Journal of Corporate Finance
- Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
- Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
- Journal of Economic Theory
- Journal of Empirical Finance
- Journal of Finance
- Journal of Financial Economics
- Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking
- Journal of Monetary Economics
- Journal of Political Economy
- Management Science
- Quarterly Journal of Economics
- RAND Journal of Economics
- Review of Economic Dynamics
- Review of Economics and Statistics
- Review of Economic Studies
- Review of Finance
- Review of Financial Studies
Professional Affiliation
- Macro Finance Society
- American Economic Association
- American Finance Association
- Northern Finance Association
- Western Finance Association