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Biography
Andrea Pescatori is Chief of the Commodities Unit in the Research Department. He also worked in the North America division of the Western-Hemisphere Department and on the Chile desk. He was previously at the World Economic Studies division in the Research Department. Before joining the IMF in 2010, he worked at the Federal Reserve. His major fields of expertise are monetary and fiscal policy, macro-econometrics, asset prices, with particular emphasis on housing and commodity prices, and international finance. Mr. Pescatori holds a Ph.D. in economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra—Barcelona, Spain and a B.S. in economics from the University of Rome III—Rome, Italy. Mr. Pescatori has been visiting student at the M.I.T., intern at the IMF in the International Capital Markets division, visiting student at the Riksbank, Sweden, and fellow of the Ente Luigi Einaudi, Rome, Italy. For an updated list of publications see my personal webpage.
Profile
Previous Experience
- Prior to joining the IMF he was an economist at the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland from 2006 to 2010. In 2009-2010 he was visiting the division of International Finance of the Federal Reserve Board. In 2006 he was visiting fellow at the Ente Luigi Enaudi, Rome, Italy.
Referee Activities
- American Economic Review, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Economica, Economic Inquiry, Economic Journal, European Economic Review, Empirical Economics, Energy Journal, International Economic Review, International Journal of Central Banking, IMF Economic Review, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of International Economic, Journal of European Economic Association, Journal of Money Credit and Banking, Journal of Monetary Economics, Review of Economic Dynamic, Review of Financial Studies.
Current Position
- Chief Commodities Unit, RES.
Field of Expertise
- Monetary Policy
- Macro-Financial Issues
- International Trade
- International Finance
- Energy and Environmental Economics
- Economic Modeling
IMF Publications
IMF Books and Working Papers
- Power Hungry: How AI Will Drive Energy Demand, Working Paper No. 2025/081 , April 22, 2025
- Beyond Energy: Inflationary Effects of Metals Price Shocks in Production Networks, Working Paper No. 2024/215 , October 22, 2024
- How do Economic Growth and Food Inflation Affect Food Insecurity?, Working Paper No. 2024/188 , September 6, 2024
- The Power of Prices: How Fast Do Commodity Markets Adjust to Shocks?, Working Paper No. 2024/077 , April 16, 2024
- Can Energy Subsidies Help Slay Inflation?, Working Paper No. 2024/081 , April 5, 2024
- Monetary Policy Transmission through Commodity Prices, Working Paper No. 2023/215 , October 10, 2023
- Not All Energy Transitions Are Alike: Disentangling the Effects of Demand and Supply-Side Policies on Future Oil Prices, Working Paper No. 2023/160 , August 4, 2023
- The Impact of Climate Policy on Oil and Gas Investment: Evidence from Firm-Level Data, Working Paper No. 2023/140 , June 30, 2023
- Economic Consequences of Large Extraction Declines: Lessons for the Green Transition, Working Paper No. 2023/097 , May 8, 2023
- OPEC and the Oil Market, Working Paper No. 2022/183 , September 16, 2022
- Market Size and Supply Disruptions: Sharing the Pain of a Potential Russian Gas Shut-off to the European Union, Working Paper No. 2022/143 , July 19, 2022
- Energy Transition Metals, Working Paper No. 2021/243 , October 12, 2021
- Income Versus Prices: How Does The Business Cycle Affect Food (In)-Security?, Working Paper No. 2021/238 , September 24, 2021
- Energy, Efficiency Gains and Economic Development: When Will Global Energy Demand Saturate?, Working Paper No. 2020/253 , November 20, 2020
- Labor Market Informality and the Business Cycle, Working Paper No. 2020/256 , November 20, 2020
- The Future of Oil and Fiscal Sustainability in the GCC Region, Departmental Paper No 2020/001 , February 6, 2020
- Central Bank Communication and Monetary Policy Surprises in Chile, Working Paper No. 2018/156 , July 6, 2018
- The Macroeconomic Effects of Trade Tariffs: Revisiting the Lerner Symmetry Result, Working Paper No. 2017/151 , July 7, 2017
- U.S. Dollar Dynamics: How Important Are Policy Divergence and FX Risk Premiums?, Working Paper No. 2016/125 , July 5, 2016
- Credit, Securitization and Monetary Policy: Watch Out for Unintended Consequences, Working Paper No. 2016/076 , March 23, 2016
- Financial Stability and Interest-Rate Policy: A Quantitative Assessment of Costs and Benefits, Working Paper No. 2016/073 , March 21, 2016
- Systemic Risk: A New Trade-off for Monetary Policy?, Working Paper No. 2015/142 , June 30, 2015
- Lower for Longer: Neutral Rates in the United States, Working Paper No. 2015/135 , June 24, 2015
- Oil Price Volatility and the Role of Speculation, Working Paper No. 2014/218 , December 12, 2014
- Debt and Growth: Is There a Magic Threshold?, Working Paper No. 2014/034 , February 13, 2014
- Competition among Exchanges and Enforcement Policy, Working Paper No. 2013/037 , February 1, 2013
- Expansionary Austerity New International Evidence, Working Paper No. 2011/158 , July 1, 2011
- A New Action-Based Dataset of Fiscal Consolidation, Working Paper No. 2011/128 , June 1, 2011
- Search Frictions and the Labor Wedge, Working Paper No. 2011/117 , May 1, 2011
- Debt Crises and the Development of International Capital Markets, Working Paper No. 2004/044 , March 1, 2004
F&D articles
- No Magic Threshold (with D. Sandri and J. Simon), forthcoming Finance and Development, June (2014).
Other Published Materials
- “Perspectives on global real interest rates”, (with D. Furceri) in World Economic Outlook, April 2014.
- “Credit supply and economic growth”, (with D. Sandri) in Chapter 1 of World Economic Outlook, April 2014.
- “Dancing together? Spillovers, common shocks, and the role of financial and trade linkages”, (with A. Abiad, D. Furceri, and S. Kalemli Ozcan) in World Economic Outlook, October 2013.
- “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: 100 Years of Dealing with Public Debt Overhangs”, (with D. Sandi and J. Simon) in World Economic Outlook,
- 5. “Swings in Commodity Prices: (How) Do They Unwind?”, (with R. Dutagupta et al.) in World Economic Outlook, April 2012.
- “Target What you can Hit: Commodity Price Swings and Monetary Policy”, (with D. Leigh and J. Simon) in World Economic Outlook, October 2011.
- “Oil Scarcity Growth and Global Imbalances”, (with T. Helbling et al.) in World Economic Outlook, April 2011.
- Will It Hurt? Macroeconomic Effects of Fiscal Consolidation, Ch.3 World Economic Outlook, October 2010.
Non-IMF Publications
Publications in Journals (Refereed)
- Expansionary Austerity: International Evidence (with J. Guajardo and D. Leigh), forthcoming Journal of the European Economic Association (2014).
- Oil and the Great Moderation (with A. Nakov), (2010) Economic Journal, Volume 120, Issue 543, pages 131–156, March.
- Monetary Policy Tradeoffs with a Dominant Oil Producer (with A. Nakov), (2010) Journal of Money Credit and Banking, Vol. 42 (1) (Lead Article).
- Are Debt Crises Adequately Defined? (with A. Sy), (2007) IMF Staff Papers, Vol. 54, N. 2.
Publications in Books and Conference Volumes
Other Published Materials
- “Macroeconomic Models, Forecasting, and Policymaking”, (with S. Zaman) Cleveland FED Commentary, Oct. 2011.
- 12. Implementing Long-term Security Purchases, Economic Trends, Jul. 2009
- New Policy Moves and the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility, Economic Trends, Apr 2009
- Industrial Production, Commodity Prices and the Baltic Dry Index, Economic Trends, Nov 2008
- Do Oil Prices Directly Affect the Stock Market? Economic Trends, Aug 2008
- Do Oil Prices Directly Affect the Stock Market? Economic Trends, Aug 2008
- “What interest rate can tell us about mortgage markets?” Economic Trends, Apr 2008.
- “Great Moderation: Good Luck, Good Policy or Less Oil Dependence?”, Economic Commentary Mar 2008
- “Jumbo Mortgages and Mortgage Market Conditions” Economic Trends, Nov 2007
- “Home Prices”, Economic Trends, Apr 2007
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