Alessia De Stefani

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• Authors: Alessia De Stefani

Biography

Alessia De Stefani is an Economist in the Macro-Financial Division of the IMF's Research Department. Prior to joining the IMF, Alessia was a Research Economist at the Danish Central Bank (Danmarks Nationalbank) and an Economist at the OECD. Her research focuses on housing markets and household finance. Alessia holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh and a MSc in Economics and Social Sciences from Bocconi University.

Profile

Education

• PhD in Economics, University of Edinburgh, 2017

• MSc Economics and Social Sciences, Bocconi University, 2011

Previous Experience

• 2020-2023: Economist, Asia and Pacific Department, International Monetary Fund

• 2017-2020: Research Economist, Danmarks Nationalbank

• 2016-2017: Economist/Policy Analyst, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

Referee Activities

• The Review of Economics and Statistics; Journal of Money Credit and Banking; Journal of Housing Economics; Economic Letters; Scandinavian Journal of Economics; International Journal of Central Banking

Country work or Mission Assignment

• Cambodia (2020-2023)

• Lao PDR (2020-2023)

IMF Direct Blog Posts

• Housing is One Reason not all Countries Feel Same Pinch of Higher Interest Rates

IMF Publications

IMF Books and Working Papers

• Missing Home-Buyers and Rent Inflation: The Role of Interest Rates and Mortgage Underwriting Standards, Working Paper No. 2025/090 , May 9, 2025

• Long-Term Debt and Short-Term Rates: Fixed-Rate Mortgages and Monetary Transmission, Working Paper No. 2025/024 , January 24, 2025

• Accelerating Innovation and Digitalization in Asia to Boost Productivity, Departmental Paper No 2023/001 , January 9, 2023

• Household Vulnerability to Income Shocks in Emerging and Developing Asia: the Case of Cambodia, Nepal and Vietnam, Working Paper No. 2022/064 , April 1, 2022

IMF Country Reports

• 2023- Lao PDR Staff Report

• 2022- Cambodia Staff Report

• 2021- Cambodia Staff Report

F&D articles

• Housing Markets and Monetary Policy

Other Published Materials

• World Economic Outlook, April 2024, Chapter 2: Feeling the Pinch? Tracing the Effects of Monetary Policy through Housing Markets

Non-IMF Publications

Publications in Journals (Referred)

• "Spending Response to a Predictable Increase in Mortgage Repayments: Evidence from Expiring Interest-Only Loans", with Henrik Yde Andersen and Stine Ludvig Bech, The Review of Economics and Statistics, 106 (1), Pages 277-285, 2024

• "House Price History, Biased Expectations and Credit Cycles: the Role of Housing Investors" Real Estate Economics, 49: 1238– 1266 , 2021

• "Debt, Inequality and House Prices: Explaining the Dynamics of Household Borrowing Prior to the Great Recession" , Journal of Housing Economics, 47: 2020

Publications in Books and Conference Volumes

• "Beliefs and Risk Taking", with Kaspar Zimmermann In "Leveraged: The New Economics of Debt and Financial Fragility", Chicago University Press, 2022

Other Published Materials

• "The Geography of Firm Dynamics" , OECD Publishing, Paris, 2017

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