Antonio Spilimbergo
Last Updated: April 14, 2022
Antonio Spilimbergo studied economics at the University Bocconi of Milan where he worked for a year. He received his Ph.D. in economics from M.I.T. in 1994. He worked at the Inter-American Development Bank. Since July 1997, he has worked in the European, Fiscal, Research, and Western Hemisphere departments at the I.M.F.. His areas of interest are: international trade, development, labor economics, political economy, and macroeconomics. His main publications were published in the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics ,Journal of Economic Growth, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy . He edited two books on Europe and Brazil and he is author of the book "Si-Vax". He has been mission chief for Slovenia, Italy, Russia, Turkey, and Brazil. He is a Research Fellow at the CEPR.
Email: ASPILIMBERGO@imf.org
Fluent In: Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish.
Education:
Ph.D. in Economics MIT May 1994
B.A., Economics, Universitá Bocconi, Milan, May 1989
Previous Experience:
Researcher at CESPRI (Research Institute at Universitá Bocconi, Milan-Italy)
June 1989 - July 1990
Translation of the book “Protectionism” by J. Bhagwati from English into Italian.
1990
Research Assistant for Professor Olivier Blanchard
Summer 1992
Research Assistant for Professor Stanley Fischer
July 1993
Teaching Assistant at MIT for Professors Stanley Fischer and Roland Bénabou
September 1992-January 1994
Economist at the Inter-American Development Bank
July 1994 - July 1997
Economist at the I.M.F.
July 1997- present
Editorial Activities:
Member of the Editorial Board of the IMF Staff Papers 2003-2009.
Editor of the IMF Research Bulletin 2005-2008.
Member of the Editorial Board of the IMF Economic Review August 2009-
Referee for: American Economic Review. Canadian Journal of Economics. Contemporary Economic Policy. Eastern Economic Journal. Economic Development and Cultural Change. Economic Inquiry. Economic Journal. Economica. Economics of Education Review. Economics of Transition. Educational Research and Reviews. Empirical Economics. Energy Journal. European Economic Review. European Journal of Comparative Economics. Il Giornale degli Economisti. International Economic Review. International Migration Review. International Journal of Business and Economics. Journal of Applied Economics. Journal of Conflict Resolution. Journal of Development Economics. Journal of Economic Growth. Journal of Economic Literature. Journal of Economics and Statistics. Journal of Economic Integration. Journal of Economic Literature. Journal of the European Economic Association. Journal of Human Resources. Journal of International Economics. Journal of International Trade and Economic Development. Journal of Labor Economics. Journal of Policy Reform. Journal of Population Economics. Journal of Public Economics. Journal of the Royal Statistics Society. Journal of Urban Economics. National Research Council. Labour. Oxford Economic Papers. Papers in Regional Science. Quarterly Journal of Economics. Research in Economics. Review of Development Economics. Review of Economic Studies. Review of Economics and Statistics. Review of International Economics. Rivista di Politica Economica. Scandinavian Journal of Economics. Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Southern Economic Journal. The World Bank Economic Review. World Development.
Others:
William Davidson Institute Research Fellow
August 2003 - present
CEPR Research Fellow
September 2003- present
Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration. External Fellow
April 2009- present
International Trade
Development
Macroeconomics