Guido Ascari Professor of Economics Department of Economics and Quantitative Methods +39 0382/986211  +39 0382/304226  guido <dot> ascari <at> unipv <dot> it

Curriculum vitae

1993, graduated, University of Pavia
1995, M. Sc. Economics, Warwick University, UK
1997, Dottorato di Ricerca in Economics at the University of Pavia
1999, Ph.D. in Economics, University of Warwick, UK
1998-99, Jean Monnet Fellow, European University Institute, Florence
1999- 2001, Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Pavia
2001-2007, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Pavia
2007- Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Pavia

First term 1997-1998, Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, University of Paris I - Sorbonne
Summer 1999, Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, University of Warwick
First term 2000-2001, Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid
June 2003: Visiting Professor, University of Warwick (PhD course on simulatiom methods)
August 2003: Visiting Scholar Research Department of the Finnish Central Bank
February 2006: Visiting Professor, University of York (PhD course on simulatiom methods)
June-July 2006 and 2007: Visiting Professor, University of Kiel and Kiel Institute for the World Economy (PhD course on SDGE models in Monetary Economics)
May 2007: Visiting Professor, Université d'Evry-Val-d'Essonne
July 2008: Visiting Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Autumn 2008: Visiting Professor, Banque de France.
June 2009: Visiting Professor, University of York (PhD course on simulatiom methods)

 

Seminars in many national and international institutions and universities as, European Central Bank, Dutch, Englsih, Finnish, and Spanish Central Bank, Birkbeck College, CEPREMAP, EUI, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, University of Helsinki, Lugano, Paris I - Sorbona, Warwick, York. Associate Editor of the Finnish Economic Papers. Referee for American Economic Review, Economica, The Economic Journal, JEEA, JEDC, JMCB, JME, International Journal of Central Banking, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Review of Econmic Dynamics, Scandinavian Journal of Economics and others. Member of the American Economic Association, European Economic Association and EACBN fellow.

Curriculm Vitae

Research interests

Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Nominal Rigidities and Dynamic General Equilibrium Models.

Sticky Price Models of the Business Cycle, Inflation Dynamics, Monetary Policy, Football Economics.

Publications

Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics

Deflazione, Disinflazione e Modelli a Salari Sovrapposti, 1997, Il Giornale degli Economisti ed Annali di Economia, 56, 235-273.

Sintesi della Tesi: Un Modello Dinamico con Agenti Ottimizzanti e Salari Sovrapposti, PREMIO SIE 1997, Rivista Italiana degli Economisti, 1997/3, 464-468..

Superneutrality of Money in Staggered Wage-setting Models, 1998, Macroeconomic Dynamics , 2, 383-400.

Optimising Agents, Staggered Wages and the Persistence in the Real Effects of Money Shocks, 2000, The Economic Journal, 110, 664-686.

Staggered Wages and Output Dynamics under Disinflation, 2001, with N. Rankin, Journal of Economic Dynamics And Control, 26 (4), 653-680.

Price/Wage Staggering and Persistence: a Unifying Framework, 2003, The Journal of Economic Surveys, 17 (4), 511-540.

Staggered Prices and Trend Inflation: Some Nuisances, 2004, Review of Economic Dynamics ,7, 642-667. Technical Appendix.

Relative Wage Concern: The Missing Piece in the Contract Multiplier?, 2004, with J.A. Garcia, Research in Economics, 58, 343-369.

Perpetual Youth and Endogenous Labour Supply: A Problem and a Possile Solution, with N. Rankin, 2007, Journal of Macroeconomics, 29, 708-723. (Also, European Central bank wp 346, April 2004, Quaderni di Dipartimento #159 (01-04), Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Metodi Quantitativi,  Universita' degli studi di Pavia, in press in )

Optimal Monetary Policy Under Low Trend Inflation, with T. Ropele, 2007, Journal of Monetary Economics, 54, 2568-2583. Longer previous working paper version available as: The Optimal Stability-Oriented Monetary Policy: Optimal Monetary Policy Under Low Trend Inflation, with T. Ropele, Quaderni di Dipartimento #167 (05-04), Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Metodi Quantitativi,  Universita' degli studi di Pavia.

Optimal Simple Rules and the Lower Bound on the Nominal Interest Rate in the Christiano-Eichenbaum-Evans model of the U.S. Business Cycle, with N. Branzoli, 2007, Portuguese Economic Journal, 6, 117-131.

Real Wage Rigidities and the Cost of Disinflations , with C. Merkl, 2009, The Journal of Money, Credit and Banking , 41 (2), 417-435.

Trend Inflation, Taylor Principle and Indeterminacy, with T. Ropele, 2009, The Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 41(8), 1557-1584.  Appendix,  Final Version.

The Long-run Optimal Degree of Indexation in the New Keynesian Model models with price staggering à la Calvo, with N. Branzoli, 2010, Economics Bulletin, Vol. 30 no.1 pp. 482-493.

Football Economics

The Financial Crisis in Spanish Football, with P. Gagnepain, 2005, The Journal of Sport Economics, 7, 76-89.

Evaluating Rent Dissipation in the Spanish Football Industry, with P. Gagnepain, 2007, The Journal of Sport Economics, 8, 468-490.

Miscellaneous

Determinants of Total Factor Productivity in the Italian Regions, with Valeria Di Cosmo, Scienze Regionali/Italian Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 4, 2, 2005, 27-49. Per questa ricerca Valeria ha vinto il Premio di Laurea “Giorgio Leonardi”, offerto dalla Società Italiana di Scienze Regionali ed il Premio Sapio 2004 per la Ricerca Italiana.

Taxing a Monopolist, with P. Bertoletti and M. Menegatti, 2005, Research in Economics, 59, 321-334.

Recent Working Papers

An Investigation on the Source of Inflation Persistence, with J.A. Garcia, Quaderni di Dipartimento #113 (4-00), Dipartimento di economia politica e metodi quantitativi,  Universita' degli studi di Pavia.

Regional Patterns of Inflation Persistence in Italy, with A.Vaona,Quaderni di Dipartimento #192 (02-07), Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Metodi Quantitativi,  Universita' degli studi di Pavia (revised and resubmitted).

Taylor Rules Cause Fiscal Policy Ineffectiveness, with N. Rankin, new version. April 08

Price Indexation and Optimal Simple Rules in a Medium Scale New Keynesian Model , with N. Branzoli, new version. April 08 (revised and resubmitted) New version, January 2010

Disinflation in a DSGE Perspective: Sacrifice Ratio or Welfare Gain Ratio?, with T. Ropele, New version, May 09

Real Wage Rigidities and Disinflation Dynamics: Calvo vs. Rotemberg Pricing, with L. Rossi. July 09 

Trend Inflation, Non-linearities and Firms Price-Setting: Rotemberg vs. Calvo, with L. Rossi. July 09 

Il modello Neo-Keynesiano, politica monetaria e dinamica dell'inflazione. Perchè l'inflazione è persistente?, saggio ad invito per la Rivista di Politica Economica, Ottobre 09

Articoli divulgativi

La presunta follia dell'industria del calcio, www.lavoce.info, 27/08/2002
Un'Authority per la politica fiscale, www.lavoce.info, 04/09/2003
E la chiamano crisi, www.lavoce.info, 23/03/2004
Le soluzioni in campo, www.lavoce.info, 30/03/2004
Nostalgia e moralismo non servono, www.lavoce.info, 18/05/2006
Quanta disinformazione sul nuovo Tfr, www.lavoce.info, con Mattia Barosi e Antonio Majocchi, 19/10/2006
Quando la teoria è di rigore , www.lavoce.info, 05/04/2007
Oltre la soluzione svedese , www.lavoce.info, 31/03/2009...scarica qui la versione lunga dell'articolo
E la Banca Centrale va in territori inesplorati , www.lavoce.info, 17/04/2009

Dal 2005 al 2008 rubrica di approfondimento Homo Economicus sul giornale settimanale Il Ticino

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