Davide Debortoli
Professor
department of economics
University Pompeu Fabra
Spain
Biography
Academic Committees Junior Recruiting Committee Member (UPF), a.y. 2015/2016 Graduate Admission Committee Member (UCSD), 2010-2011 Ph.D. Qualifying Exams Committee Member (UCSD), 2009-2013 Courses, Seminars and Conferences Organization BGSE Summer Forum Central Bank Design Workshop (co-organizer), 2016 UPF Ph.D. Alumni meeting (organizer), 2015 Barcelona GSE Professional Course on “Unconventional Monetary Policy†(co-director), 2015 Ph.D. students’ Macro workshop, 2009 and 2011 (UCSD) and 2013-2016 (CREI-UPF) UCSD Macroeconomic Seminar, 2010 and 2012 Ph.D. Students’ Mentoring Current students at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (role in parenthesis): Giacomo Caracciolo (co-advisor), Jenny Chan (co-advisor), Shengliang Ou (co-advisor), Donghai Zhang (co-advisor), Christoph Albert (reader), Mehregan Ameri (reader), Christoph Hedtrich (reader), Christian Höynck (reader), Felix Mauersberger (reader) Cristina Manea (reader), Florens Odendahl (reader), Matthieu Soupre (reader) Alexander Ziegenbein (reader) Former students (role and placement in parenthesis): Olga Croitorov, U. Carlos III Madrid, 2015 (committee member, KU Leuven) Fan Xia, UC San Diego, 2014 (committee member, Merrill Lynch) Chim Lau, UC San Diego, 2013 (committee member, Shanghai Univ. of Finance and Economics) Ji Zhang, UC San Diego, 2013 (committee member, Tsinghua PBC School of Finance) Aeimit Lakdawala, UC San Diego, 2012 (committee member, Michigan State University) Soojin Jo, UC San Diego, 2012 (committee member, Bank of Canada) Cynthia Wu, UC San Diego, 2011 (committee member, Chicago Booth)
Research Interest
Macroeconomic Theory, Monetary Policy, Fiscal Policy
Publications
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“Regime Switches and Monetary Policy Objectives†(with R. Nunes), Journal of Money Credit and Banking, 46(8), pp. 1591-1626, December 2014.
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“How Credible is the Federal Reserve? A Structural Estimation of Policy Re-optimizations†(with A. Lakdawala), American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 8(3), July 2016.
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“Optimal Time-Consistent Government Debt Maturity†(with R. Nunes and P. Yared), Quarterly Journal of Economics, forthcoming, 2016.