Email: laurent.ferrara [at] skema.edu /// Twitter: @FerraraLaurent
- Full Professor of International Economics SKEMA Business School
- Board of Directors, French Economic Association (AFSE)
- Chair 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 IIF
- 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
NEWS:
- Launch of the French Business Cycle Dating Committee
- June 16, 2021: 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
- New WP: « Questionning the puzzle: Fiscal policy, exchange rate and inflation », Australian National Univ., CAMA WP, with D. Siena, L. Metelli and F. Natoli
- 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)
- « Macro and Time Series Workshop », organized by Paris School of Economics
- New WP « High-frequency monitoring of Growth-at-Risk » (Nov. 2020, CAMA WP, with M. Mogliani and J.G. Sahuc)
- 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
- Conference « Alternative datasets for macroeconomic analysis and monetary policy », 17-18 Oct., Universita Bocconi and Banque de France, organized by M. Marcellino, D. Siena and L. Ferrara Program_BdF_Bocconi_Oct19
- Econbrowser post on the German Business Cycle, Sep. 16, 2019
- My discussion of the paper « Understanding uncertainty shocks: The role of Black Swans » by A. Orlik (Fed Board) and L. Veldkamp (NYU) at the PSE-SCOR conf, July 2nd Ferrara_Discussion_Orlik_PSE-SCOR_Jul19
- Slides IJCB Annual Conf, Oslo, June 2019 Ferrara_IJCB_Jun19
- « When are Google data useful to nowcast GDP? An approach via preselection and shrinkage » , WP Banque de France, with Anna Simoni, April 2019
- My discussion of the paper by Kilian and Zhou (2018) « Oil prices, Exchange rates and Interest rates », BdF-ECB-BdI Workshop on « Exchange Rates », Dec. 14, 2018 Ferrara_Discusssion_Kilian_BdFworkshop_Dec18
- Springer Book on « International Macroeconomics in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis », edited by L. Ferrara, I. Hernando and D. Marconi
- BdF Blog post: « International environment and US monetary policy: A textual analysis »
- Conference T2M: Discussion of S. Ludvigson (NYU) on « Uncertainty and business cycles », March 2018 Ferrara_DiscussionLudvigson
- Econbrowser post on The New Fama Puzzle
- The New Fama Puzzle, NBER WP No.24342, with M. Chinn, M. Bussière and J. Heipertz, Feb. 2018
