Andrea Pescatori
Last Updated: May 10, 2019
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.
Personal WebPage: https://sites.google.com/site/andreapescatori/
Fluent In: Italian, Spanish.
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