Luca Antonio Ricci
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Assistant Director and Mission Chief, International Monetary Fund.
CEPR Research Fellow.
Email: LRICCI@imf.org
Fluent In: French, Italian, Spanish.
Digital Payment Innovations in Sub-Saharan Africa, Departmental Paper No 2025/004 , June 27, 2025
Micro-Evidence on the Consumption Impact of Income-Support Policies During COVID-19, Working Paper No. 2025/064 , April 4, 2025
Central Bank Digital Currency and Other Digital Payments in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Regional Survey, Fintech Notes No 2024/001 , March 27, 2024
Weighted Median Inflation Around the World: A Measure of Core Inflation, Working Paper No. 2023/044 , February 24, 2023
Understanding Chile’s Social Unrest in an International Perspective, Working Paper No. 2021/174 , June 25, 2021
Authorities’ Fiscal Forecasts in Latin America: Are They Optimistic?, Working Paper No. 2021/154 , June 4, 2021
Patterns in IMF Growth Forecast Revisions: A Panel Study at Multiple Horizons, Working Paper No. 2021/136 , May 7, 2021
The Macroeconomic Impact of Social Unrest, Working Paper No. 2021/135 , May 7, 2021
Fiscal Policy Challenges for Latin America during the Next Stages of the Pandemic: The Need for a Fiscal Pact, Working Paper No. 2021/077 , March 18, 2021
The Sources of Fiscal Fluctuations, Working Paper No. 2020/220 , October 30, 2020
Comfort in Floating: Taking Stock of Twenty Years of Freely-Floating Exchange Rate in Chile, Working Paper No. 2020/100 , June 19, 2020
The Level REER model in the External Balance Assessment (EBA) Methodology, Working Paper No. 2019/192 , September 13, 2019
The Nonlinear Relationship Between Public Debt and Sovereign Credit Ratings, Working Paper No. 2019/162 , July 26, 2019
Does Gross or Net Debt Matter More for Emerging Market Spreads?, Working Paper No. 2016/246 , December 22, 2016
Trilemma or Dilemma: Inspecting the Heterogeneous Response of Local Currency Interest Rates to Foreign Rates, Working Paper No. 2016/075 , March 23, 2016
The External Balance Assessment (EBA) Methodology, Working Paper No. 2013/272 , December 31, 2013
Country Insurance Using Financial Instruments, Working Paper No. 2011/169 , July 1, 2011
Evidence on Productivity, Comparative Advantage, and Networks in the Export Performance of Firms, Working Paper No. 2011/077 , April 1, 2011
Unemployment and Productivity in the Long Run: the Role of Macroeconomic Volatility, Working Paper No. 2010/259 , November 1, 2010
International Capital Flows and Development: Financial Openness Matters, Working Paper No. 2010/235 , October 1, 2010
External Balance in Low Income Countries, Working Paper No. 2009/221 , October 1, 2009
The Inflation-Unemployment Trade-off at Low Inflation, Working Paper No. 2009/034 , March 1, 2009
Is There a Novelty Premium on New Financial Instruments? The Argentine Experience with GDP-Indexed Warrants, Working Paper No. 2008/109 , April 1, 2008
A Bayesian-Estimated Model of Inflation Targeting in South Africa, Working Paper No. 2008/048 , February 1, 2008
Real Exchange Rates and Fundamentals: A Cross-Country Perspective, Working Paper No. 2008/013 , January 1, 2008
Post-Apartheid South Africa: The First Ten Years, , January 12, 2006
Debt Overhang or Debt Irrelevance? Revisiting the Debt-Growth Link, Working Paper No. 2005/223 , December 1, 2005
Can Higher Reserves Help Reduce Exchange Rate Volatility?, Working Paper No. 2004/189 , October 1, 2004
What Are the Channels Through Which External Debt Affects Growth?, Working Paper No. 2004/015 , January 1, 2004
Estimation of the Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate for South Africa, Working Paper No. 2003/044 , March 1, 2003
International Financial Integration and Economic Growth, Working Paper No. 2002/145 , August 1, 2002
Capital Account Liberalization and Economic Performance: Survey and Synthesis, Working Paper No. 2002/120 , July 1, 2002
External Debt and Growth, Working Paper No. 2002/069 , April 1, 2002
Purchasing Power Parity and New Trade Theory, Working Paper No. 2002/032 , February 1, 2002
PPP and the Balassa Samuelson Effect: The Role of the Distribution Sector, Working Paper No. 2001/038 , March 1, 2001
Trade and Financial Contagion in Currency Crises, Working Paper No. 2000/055 , March 1, 2000
Uncertainty, Flexible Exchange Rates, and Agglomeration, Working Paper No. 1998/009 , February 1, 1998
EMU, Adjustment, and Exchange Rate Variability, Working Paper No. 1998/050 , January 1, 1998
A Model of an Optimum Currency Area, Working Paper No. 1997/076 , June 1, 1997
Exchange Rate Regimes and Location, Working Paper No. 1997/069 , June 1, 1997
