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Giovanni P. Olivei
Vice President and Economist
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Education | Work experience | Publications

Primary field of research
Macroeconomics, international finance

 

Biography
Giovanni P. Olivei is a Vice President in the Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, where he oversees the macroeconomics/finance section of the department. Olivei’s current research interests are in monetary economics, with particular emphasis on inflation dynamics, and in international finance, including exchange rate and current account dynamics.

Olivei earned his B.A. in economics at Università Commerciale L. Bocconi, Italy, where he graduated summa cum laude. He earned his Ph.D. in economics at Princeton University.

 

Education

Ph.D., Princeton University, 1998
Mellon Foundation Pre-Doctoral Research Assistantship, 1997-1998
International Finance Section Summer Fellowship, 1996, 1997
Università Commerciale L. Bocconi Fellowship for Studies in Economics Abroad, 1993-1995

B.A., Università Commerciale L. Bocconi, Italy, Summa Cum Laude, 1992

Work experience

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Vice President, 2008-
Senior Economist and Policy Advisor, 2005-2007
Senior Economist, 2002-2004
Economist, 1998-2002

Princeton University
Part-time Assistant in Instruction in Economics, 1995-1998

Università Commerciale L. Bocconi, Italy
Assistant in Instruction in Economics, 1992-1993

Publications

Refereed journal articles

"The Timing of Monetary Policy Shocks," with Silvana Tenreyro. American Economic Review 97(3): 636-663 (June 2007).

Other journal articles

Inside and Outside Bounds: Threshold Estimates of the Phillips Curve,” with Michelle L. Barnes. New England Economic Review(2003).

Central Banking in Other Industrialized Countries: Japan’s Approach to Monetary Policy,” with Richard Kopcke and others. New England Economic Review (Second Quarter 2002).

Central Banking in Other Industrialized Countries: Norway’s Approach to Monetary Policy,” with Richard Kopcke and others. New England Economic Review (Second Quarter 2002).

Central Banking in Other Industrialized Countries: Switzerland’s Approach to Monetary Policy,” with Richard Kopcke and others. New England Economic Review (Second Quarter 2002).

Exchange Rates and the Prices of Manufacturing Products Imported into the United States.” New England Economic Review (First Quarter 2002).

The Role of Savings and Investment in Balancing the Current Account: Some Empirical Evidence from the United States.” New England Economic Review (July/August 2000).

Consumption Risk-Sharing Across G-7 Countries.” New England Economic Review (March/April 2000).

Rethinking the International Monetary System: An Overview,” with Jane Sneddon Little. New England Economic Review (November/December 1999).

Why the Interest in Reforming the International Monetary System?” with Jane Sneddon Little. New England Economic Review (September/October 1999).

Books and book chapters

Rethinking the International Monetary System, edited with Jane Sneddon Little. Proceedings from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Conference Series no. 43, 1999.

Rethinking the International Monetary System: An Overview,” with Jane Sneddon Little, in Rethinking the International Monetary System. Proceedings from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Conference Series no. 43, 1999.

Why The Interest in Reform?” with Jane Sneddon Little, in Rethinking the International Monetary System. Proceedings from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Conference Series no. 43, 1999.

Working papers and other unpublished papers

Estimating Forward Looking Euler Equations with GMM Estimators: An Optimal Instruments Approach,” with Jeffrey C. Fuhrer. FRB Boston Working Papers Series, paper no. 04-2 (2004).

The Timing of Monetary Policy Shocks,” with Silvana Tenreyro. FRB Boston Working Papers Series, paper no. 04-1 (2004).

Productivity Shocks, Investment, and the Real Interest Rate.” FRB Boston Working Papers Series, paper no. 99-2 (1999).

Fiscal Retrenchments and the Level of Economic Activity.” FRB Boston Working Papers Series, paper no. 99-3 (1999).

Capital Account Liberalization, Financial Depth, and Economic Growth,” with Michael W. Klein. FRB Boston Working Papers Series, paper no. 99-6 (1999).

Capital Account Liberalization, Financial Depth, and Economic Growth,” with Michael W. Klein. NBER Working Paper no. 7384 (1999).

“Government Spending Shocks and the Real Interest Rate Under Alternative Fiscal Regimes.” Princeton University, mimeo (October 1998).

 

 

 
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