Giulia Rivolta - Università degli Studi di Brescia

Giulia Rivolta
Place and date of birth: Brescia, 13/09/1985
Citizenship: Italian
E-mail: [email protected]
Affiliation
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Department of Economics and Management
University of Brescia
Via S.Faustino 74-b
25122 Brescia, ITALY
Current Position
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From December 2014:
Assegnista di Ricerca (Research Fellow)
University of Brescia
Department of Economics and Management
Research Interests_______________________________________________________________________________
Empirical Macroeconomics, Time-Series Econometrics, Bayesian Econometrics
Monetary Economics, International Macroeconomics
Education_______________________________________________________________________________________
PhD in Economics
10/2010 - 02/2015
University of Milan
Thesis: “Essay on Monetary Policy and Cyclical Convergence in the Euro Area”
Supervisor: Prof. Alessandro Missale
M.Sc. (Laurea Specialistica) in Money, Finance and Risk Management
09/2007 – 10/2009
Università degli Studi di Brescia
Thesis: “Methodological Issues in the Use of DSGE Models for Monetary Policy”.
Supervisors: Prof. Carmine Trecroci
Final grade: 110/110 cum laude
B.Sc. (Laurea) in Banking and Finance
09/2004 – 10/2007
Università degli Studi di Brescia
Thesis title: “Characteristic Portfolios and Active Management: an Introduction”
Supervisor: Prof. Carmine Trecroci
Final grade: 110/110 cum laude
Further Education________________________________________________________________________________
Postgraduate Course in Advanced Bayesian Econometrics
08/09/2014 – 12/09/2014
Centro Interuniversitario di Econometria
Lecturers: Roberto Casarin (University of Venice)
Christiane Baumeister (Bank of Canada)
Topics: Time-varying coefficient VAR models with stochastic volatility
Identification in VAR models with sign restrictions
Markov-switching and graphical VAR models
Non-parametric Bayesian econometrics
Postgraduate Course in Bayesian Methods in Economics and Finance
10/09/2012 – 14/09/2014
Centro Interuniversitario di Econometria
Lecturers: Roberto Casarin (University of Venice)
Matteo Ciccarelli (European Central Bank)
Antonietta Mira (University of Lugano)
Francesco Pauli (University of Trieste)
Topics: Bayesian statistics, Simulation methods in Bayesian analysis,
Bayesian models in economics and finance
Summer School in Theoretical and Empirical Advanced Macroeconomics
25/06/2012 – 30/06/2012
1st DEFAP-LASER Summer School - University of Pavia
Lecturers: Giorgio Primiceri (Northwestern University)
Robert King (Boston University)
Topics: Bayesian inference in macroeconomics models
Macroeconomics and imperfect policy credibility.
Visiting Student
09/2011 – 12/2011
Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium
Courses attended: Mathematics and Statistics for Economics, Advanced
Macroeconomics, Dynamical Methods in Economics
Grants and Awards ______ ____________________________________________ _________________________
Three-years scholarship from the University of Milan for the Ph.D. in Economics
Working Papers
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- “An Event-Study Analysis of ECB Unconventional Monetary Policy Measures”
Departmental Working Paper n. 02-2014, Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods,
University of Milan.
Works in Progress
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The conduct of monetary policy in the Euro area: evidence from time-varying parameters reaction functions
Cross-country heterogeneity in the European Monetary Union and the crisis
International spillovers of US monetary policy shocks (joint work with Luca Dedola and Livio Stracca)
A VAR analysis of international tax competition (joint work with Paolo Panteghini and Raffaele Miniaci)
Conference Presentations__________________________________________________________________________
2014:
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2013:
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9th CEUS Workshop: “Challenges of European Monetary Union at the Age of 15”
Centre for European Studies, WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management, Vallendar (Germany), [May 22-23]
3rd Carlo Giannini PhD Workshop in Econometrics: Panel Data Econometrics
University of Bergamo, Bergamo (Italy), [March 15]
21th Symposium of the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics
University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan (Italy), [March 28-29]
1st CIdE Workshop for PhD Students in Econometrics and Empirical Economics
Bank of Italy - SADiBa, Perugia (Italy), [August 29-30]
2012:
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XXI International Conference on Money Banking and Finance
LUISS University, Rome (Italy), [December 10-11]
Teaching Experiences______
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University of Milan, Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods.
Teaching assistant for undergraduate courses:
- Macroeconomics (Prof. Michelangeli), spring 2012
- Macroeconomics (Prof. Missale), fall 2012
- Principles of Economics (Prof. Bucci and Prof. Bratti), spring 2013
- Macroeconomics (Prof. Frattini), spring 2013
University of Brescia, Department of Economics and Management.
Teaching assistant for graduate courses:
- Econometrics for Financial Markets (Prof. Miniaci), spring 2015
Professional Experiences___________________________________________________________________________
European Central Bank - Frankfurt, Germany
19-23/01/2015
Consultant
DG-Research, Monetary Policy Research Division
DG International, International Policy Analysis Division
European Central Bank - Frankfurt, Germany
10/2013 - 10/2014
PhD Trainee (Research Assistant)
DG-Research, Monetary Policy Research Division
Banca Profilo SPA – Milan, Italy.
12/2009 - 09/2010
Macroeconomic Analyst - Research Department
Computer Skills__________________________________________________________________________________
Microsoft Office Applications – Word, Powerpoint, Excel (Very Good)
Econometric and Computational Softwares – Matlab (Very Good), Eviews , Gretl, Stata (Good)
Data Providers - Datastream (Good), Haver (Good), Bloomberg Professional (Basic)
Typesetting Systems - Latex (Good), LyX (Very Good)
Languages_______________________________________________________________________________________
Italian – Mothertongue
English – Fluent
French, Spanish, German – Basic
March 2015
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