CV_Ferrara_Sep21

Short bio Ferrara

Email: laurent.ferrara [at] skema.edu  /// Twitter: @FerraraLaurent

• Full Professor of International Economics SKEMA Business School
• Board of Directors, French Economic Association (AFSE)
• Chair and founder of the French Business Cycle Dating Committee
• Research Fellow, EconomiX, University Paris Nanterre
• Associate Researcher, CAMA, Australian National University
• Chair of the Macro Forecasting section at International Institute of Forecasting
• Associate Editor, International Journal of Forecasting
• Associate Editor, International Economics
• Former Head of International Macro Division at Banque de France
• Former Director, International Institute of Forecasting

• 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
• Forthcoming 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
• Forthcoming in International Journal of Forecasting: « High-frequency monitoring of Growth-at-Risk » (Nov. 2020, CAMA WP, with M. Mogliani and J.G. Sahuc)
• Forthcoming 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