Email: laurent.ferrara [at] skema.edu /// Twitter: @FerraraLaurent
- Full Professor of International Economics SKEMA Business School
- Board of Directors, French Economic Association (AFSE)
- Board of Directors, International Institute of Forecasting
- Chair and founder of the French Business Cycle Dating Committee
- Chair and founder of the Macro Forecasting section at International Institute of Forecasting
- Research Fellow, EconomiX, University Paris Nanterre
- Associate Researcher, CAMA, Australian National University
- Associate Editor, International Journal of Forecasting
- Associate Editor, International Economics
- Former Head of International Macro Division at Banque de France
NEWS:
- Keynote lecture on « Effects of Climate Shocks on production in European Economies », OECD, Sep. 2022. Slides Ferrara_ClimateShocks_OECD_Sep22
- Workshop on “Advances in alternative data and machine learning for macroeconomics and finance”, 9 Sep. 22, Paris, Program_Workshop_09Sep2022_v5
- High-frequency macro risks in EA & the U.S., see our VoxEU post
- Announcement of the exit of the Covid recession in France, see our VoXEU post
- Launch of the French Business Cycle Dating Committee, VoxEU post, slides: DatingFrance_SemBeta_Jan2022
- Published in Journal of International Economics: « Questionning the puzzle: Fiscal policy, exchange rate and inflation », Australian National Univ., CAMA WP, with D. Siena, L. Metelli and F. Natoli
- Published in International Journal of Forecasting: « High-frequency monitoring of Growth-at-Risk » (Nov. 2020, CAMA WP, with M. Mogliani and J.G. Sahuc)
- Published in Journal of Applied Econometrics: « Common factors of commodity prices » with D. Giannone and S. Delle Chiaie Ferrara_IJCB_Jun19
- Presentation on « High-frequency monitoring of Growth at Risk » at the 11th ECB Conference on Forecasting Techniques
- New post: Plan Biden: Relance américaine, conséquences mondiales, The Conversation France, mai 2021
- Keynote speech, European Commission Conference on « Big data and Economic Forecasting », March 2021. Slides: Ferrara_JRC_Mar21
- Post: « Le plan de relance de Joe Biden va-t-il faire surchauffer l’économie américaine? », The Conversation, Feb. 2021 and its English version: « Will Joe Biden’s stimulus plan cause the US economy to overheat? »
- New book « Méthodes de Prévision en Finance », published by Economica (Sep. 2020, with A. Charles and O. Darné)
- Econbrowser blog post on « Is China’s GDP lower than officially announced? » (July 2020)
- Econbrowser blog post on « A severe US recession » (June 2020)
- Econbrowser blog post on « Global bond market contagion in times of Covid-19 » (May 2020)
- Econbrowser blog post on U.S. business cycles (April 2020)
- Econbrowser blog post on Nowcasting with alternative datasets (March 2020)
- Econbrowser blog post on International effects of fiscal Policy (Feb. 2020)
- Interview on the U.S. economy with « La Liberté » (in French) 2020.02.03 FJtrump eco
- New OECD WP « Business cycle dynamics after the Great Recession: An extended MS-DFM », with C. Doz and P.A. Pionnier, Jan. 2020
- Econbrowser post on the German Business Cycle, Sep. 16, 2019
- « When are Google data useful to nowcast GDP? An approach via preselection and shrinkage » , WP Banque de France, with Anna Simoni, April 2019
- Springer Book on « International Macroeconomics in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis », edited by L. Ferrara, I. Hernando and D. Marconi
- The New Fama Puzzle, NBER WP No.24342, with M. Chinn, M. Bussière and J. Heipertz, Feb. 2018
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